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I think system matters, but I do agree. Not to harp on the BitD community, but a prevalent attitude I've seen is how they will insist that any problem someone had with the game was the result of a bad GM or simply not understanding the game, but when people enjoy the game, they're quick to sing...

Those came out long after I ran my first session, and even with experience those videos just don't gel for me.

I watched both to try to get a handle on how to run it, especially since I had no familiarity with player-facing systems on the GM side, but I'd agree. Both APs were dry as the Sahara. Haunted City was more entertaining thanks to the players, but Jared Logan is incapable of learning/remembering...

He did the standard "that sounds like X" as well, but he explicitly called for specific actions - not just suggested - and I'm pretty sure it was at least once every session. There was also rolling twice for the same thing, without the fiction changing much. And requiring a roll without having a...

So, this GM acknowledged that the adventurers were competent enough to build and start a campfire (one that didn't burn out, at that), but not put it out? Top tier GMing that. That's just standard operating procedure!

It does. And I'd agree a few of them to apply across the board, but there's some I chafe at. Even Harper himself fails to abide them in the actual plays he ran.

I'd add Black Myth: Wukong and Space Marine 2 to that. But the counterpoint is naughty word Black Ops 6 being the most profitable game of 2024 (by dollar amount).

I don't disagree. One of my annoyances with the BitD community is the amount of fans who tell new players - particularly those coming from D&D5e - that they need to "unlearn bad habits". Habits and techniques picked up from running/playing D&D may not necessarily be conducive to running/playing...

PbtA games' GM Principles seem to me to be a explicit codification of what has generally been considered GM best practices. They're like the GMing equivalent of painting by numbers - that's not meant to be disparaging; paint by numbers kits exist for reason. People often think that creative...

I think we're going to need a citation on that one.

Well, this certainly puts a new spin on the class war. Wonder what sort of GM King Charlie would be.

Yeah, I noted that. Main campaign, cast, setting and system are all contributing factors. My musing on hypothetical miniseries was to acquire data on which is/are the more significant.

Yo dawg, I heard you like sandboxes, so I drew boxes in your sand so you can box sand in your sandbox.

You think the Baldur's Gate moniker was a larger draw than the D&D IP? No. The previous instalment was 23 years ago, and 5e was already massive when BG3 went into development. I have no such misunderstandings. I'm well aware that video games absolutely dwarf RPGs. They overtook the movie...

That is a potential contributing factor for why the miniseries don't hit the same numbers as the campaign, but doesn't explain ExU dominating the other miniseries, since it also has partial main cast.

Where are you people finding such stable groups?! Stop hogging them!

BG3 completely outshone both Solasta (as the fellow D&D game) and D:OS 1+2 (as the fellow Larian games), it was clearly the combination of D&D with Larian's efforts and dedication.

While they didn't make up the bulk of the playbase, I'd argue it was absolutely D&D fans that were the catalyst for it's success - they were the ones who bought it in early access and sang it's praises. Pillars of Eternity was made by Obsidian, not Larian. Larian's previous game was Divinity...

I looked into the views for the various CR content a while ago, and there are some conclusions that can drawn based on them, as well as speculation. The main campaign gets the most views by far, naturally. The one-shots all get pretty lacklustre numbers in comparison, including the D&D battle...

I said he's a D&D diehard, not that he's locked into D&D. "Those are not the same thing." I'd argue he has Pathfinder brain, as evidenced by his homebrew.