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I honestly can't think of anything sillier than people arguing about realistic armor in a thread about Red Sonja.

SWADE has a good cross section of stat blocks in the core rulebook. You can easily tweak any of them on the fly.

I think one thing is that people feel like they need "complete stat blocks" too often. Again, I am talking about knowing a system here, but if you know how things are supposed to work, you just need some thresholds and baselines and can go. What is a reasonable difficulty? What represents a...

It looks like a straight to video gem from 1986. I'm in.

I would rather see a setting search. WotC's design team does not hold any special monopoly on creativity, as we can plainly see from the myriad of 3PP and fan settings out there. What WotC does have a monopoly on is their IP, so if I could order them to make a thing, it would necessarily be a...

I was talking about the claim that Daggerheart is a "4E successor" game. I don't know any details about Draw Steel, but I do know Coville is a big fan of many of 4E's design ethos, so I would not be surprised at all if DS ended up a 4E clone, let alone successor.

Ah. My mistake, then. I can't recall the last time I saw/heard someone refer to mysteries that way outside of the RPG system. I don't actually think whodunnit's work particularly well for RPGs, mostly because GMs are usually pretty bad at laying down clues well.

For my part, the ability to run a quick pickup game -- or any minimal to no prep game -- is familiarity with the system. If you know the system well, no matter what the system is, it is pretty trivial to put together interesting and "balanced" encounters on the fly. The rest is just whim, random...

Cool! Do you have the list handy?

Right. I forgot that the bubble keeps getting smaller here. It's like Eberron.

Cool. I hope she does awesome stuff there. Total aside: you would think that with all the spell and grammar check elements embedded in various word processing apps, they would be able to detect blatantly missing words. But you see it ALL THE TIME.

Honestly "It's like Arcane" is a perfectly viable pitch.

But why not just use gumshoe? Why try and figure out how to tack on Gumshoe's skill mechanics to Daggerheart, when you can just play Gumshoe?

I still think charactrs are too competent for horror. Horror vibes like Buffy or whatever? Sure. I did not take it as "Urban Fantasy" since the world "real" was used twice. But yes, you probably would not need to change much to run Dresden style urban fantasy.

I agree wholeheartedly.

There is certainly influence (that the designers acknowledge) but you are overstating it. Which seems to be common, for whatever reason.

I'm thinking more about what we often see in class design.a lot of folks seem to want to drag SD back toward 5E in that regard, and I think it usually ends up not working.

A PDF for a WotC product? BWAHAHAHAHA

I worry about design sensibilities. Shadowdark is "easy" to design for, but it seems like a lot of folks really lose the thread on the ethos.

Those settings are still high fantasy tho. They don't fundamentally change the play loop. Trying to use Daggerheart for Gumshoe seems like a lot of work for little benefit.