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While I'm inclined to chime in with pretty much all of the other responses, maybe there's a little caveat to be found here ... While I am very opposed to the notion that the GM should judge "good roleplay", I do enjoy players coming up with fun bits of roleplaying - not necessarily great...

Get well soon - and then maybe take some additional time to recover and read, if you can, it can't hurt! If you like horror, I can also highly recommend No Security by Caleb Stokes - a series of system-agnostic cosmic horror adventures set during the Great Depression (cosmic, but without any...

I'm not going to argue the semantics of what a "clone" is talking about RPGs, because some people will only talk of clones if the original rules are virtually unchanged, while others have a much broader definition ... It just seems that ZW either gets slammed for being too much like WHFRP2 or...

I'm feeling weird about keeping to defend ZW as als rules system, because I'm not really that invested in it and have already decided to not back the KS, but that sounds like it doesn't really make a lot of sense in context - either it is WH 2nd with the serial numbers filed off, or the changed...

Okay, just to make sure that we're talking about the same thing: I take roll-over to mean that you roll a die, add your score and modifier and try to reach a target number (as in SotDL or D&D5); while roll-under means that you roll a die and need to stay under your (ocassionally modified) score...

I'm pretty sure Zweihänder is roll under (EDIT: I checked again in the Session Zero doc: Yes, definitely roll under). I didn't rememer the Tiers system, though ... but if I remember correctly, you mainly advance your skills, and Tiers are a measure of character advancement, and not its means...

Great interview! I wasn't aware that Mongoose is such an awesome company ... I own a few Traveller books and really like the system, though I must confess that the setting is just a tad to traditional for me. So it's good news that they're not only doing Pioneer (which sounds really interesting...

I think both Warhammer and Zweihänder are extremely different from SotDL. Yes, the flavour is similar, but SotDL is basically D&D (class centered, rules design heavily based on exceptions, combat as the core acitvity), while Warhammer and derivatives are basically BRP (skill-centered, percentile...

I took a look at that session zero free download from the kickstarter, and I must confess that I'm interested again, simply because the ancestries are pretty cool.

Mainly, I was thinking that BA sounds like a lot of words around the idea of keeping effective scores and results within a certain range. Which probably really was a good measure to take for 5e, but it's not really that revolutionary idea if you look at RPGs in general.

Sounds like "Bounded Accuracy" is nothing more than a term for D&D coming around to doing things like the majority of other RPG systems out there. :LOL:

Call of Cthulhu roots, not Cthulhu roots. I remember Arkham Horror as Chaosium's official CoC boardgame, which was kind of silly and fun ... the core conceit was the same as today, I think - you ran around Arkham and tried to close gates and not get killed by the monsters coming through them...

Thanks! Then I apologize for the sarcasm ... I hope that I got across where I agree with you and where I simply didn't consider part of your original post, because it was simply not what I was thinking about at that moment.

Quoting myself just because I'm kind of annoyed and it might prove a point about the communication about 5e: That exchange started with me picking up on a comment to state (in an admittedly slighty sarcastic way) why I, personally, might prefer other RPGs to 5e. I get a vaguely insulting...

Which might be a case in point of how 5e manages to accomodate many levels of player engagement: As it seems, it's absolutely possible to play your character even if you can't remember half of her abilities; which could very well be considered a feature.

You're right, I kind of missed/ignored the point about narrative-heavy or not. I was thinking more about the rules load. However, most of the games I mentioned aren't inherently narrative-heavy (though I guess pbtA is); you can sit down and play Troika or Warlock just as casually, with no great...

Maybe ... but if everyone at the table only cares for the most basic rules elements, because they can't really be bothered with the rest, I'm not really sure why I would choose 5e if I could just as well use something cheaper and slimmer that provides similar rules depths as the most basic 5e...

Well, as I said before: I think that if someone's lucky enough for the market taste to coincide with their preferences, they should be generous when the less lucky act a little grumpy at times.

Which is back to the original question of the thread, because if I say that D&D dominance is bad, that's simply a complaint about the tastes of the market.

I won't disagree. Still, I don't see why you have to act as if you had been personally attacked in your preference for 5e, when there's really only a difference of opinion about how important 5e's design was for its success.