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My first suggestion, no matter what you run, would you to start right in the middle of it. In media res. They're not on their way to a dungeon, sitting around a fire and making plans for the last trek. They're not leaving the town on their way in search of the dungeon. They're sliding down a...

I agree. I also ponder on this. But I know that our reaction to prices and goods is much more emotional than rational. I'm mostly describing how I'm feeling. The conversation of value is interesting. Creators will talk about what it cost to create the product, or what it would take for it to...

I'm willing to follow a push in price with physical books (don't have a choice, shipping, customs and currency conversion from CAD doubles the price of books). But my limit for PDF is much, much lower. There is no universe where I will pay 50$+ for a PDF. And any bundle of Physical + PDF that's...

It's funny, I read this thread earlier this week and now it seems Draw Steel is finally available for purchase directly on their website... and it is 89$ for the PDFs! I've already seen a few reactions to the price of the PDFs. Draw Steel

That's a bit of a drastic example. If the gap between your fastest character and the second fastest is the difference between the Flash and the Joker, then yeah, I don't see why we're rolling. However, in most games (including D&D) the gap is much more narrower. The odds are absolutely in the...

I have no idea. It didn't say. Gen Con 2025 Events It's interesting to look at the data. I have no idea what qualifies as an event or not. But it says the Avatar RPG had 130 events.

This is exactly my read too. Some strong IPs bring in fans that want to buy anything from the IP. And TTRPG books are generally very nice objects, that are made with passion. But the success of these Kickstarter does not correlate to the game being played. I was surprised to see quite a few...

As someone that dove head first in the OSR like three years ago, a recurring pattern that I saw is that the definition is looser than most think. I've lurked this thread and it's obvious that certain elements like the "lethality" is part of the OSR experience for some, not for others. Games that...

I actually looked into the Galaxy book for Starfinder 2 a few week back and was shocked at the price increase. I'm from Canada, so we get wrecked with the currency conversion, the shipping and all that jazz. Paizo books used to be around 60-65$ CAD in my FLGS (around 45-50$USD). They are now...

Man, I got like two notifications of replies from the thread after I made it. Then nothing. I was kinda busy and thought "Oh well it's just not an interesting topic to people" then as my time frees up, I come here with my afternoon cup of coffee to see that the thread is over 21 pages long...

I absolutely love the OSR and its multitude of products. But that's a gripe I have. The number of "new games" that are basically exactly B/X with a list of minor changes that fit on one sheet of paper is astounding. Thankfully, we're seeing bolder and bolder departures.

If there was a thread about his topic, I missed it. Mearls posted this blog article a little less than two weeks ago. It made its way in several communities I frequent so I got to reading it. TTRPGs: The Next Generation I'm really puzzled by it. It makes little sense to me. The lines he draws...

Interstellar is one of my favorite movies. People often critique the hard sci-fi bits of it. But I actually don't think it's a hard sci-fi movie. One of my critique of science-fiction (not all of it of course) is that it often focuses on such grand questions, or on technical/scientific premises...

Most bigger publishers and established companies need to print at scale to reach acceptable prices and save their margins. Then, they most often sell directly to distributors or outlets, hoping that they'll sell them. I'm sure they want their stuff to sell, but they don't lose money if it...

I don't disagree with most of what you said. But I don't think anyone is asking publishers to do all this stuff. We simply react much more positively to nicer presentation and videos that have motion. A well designed page also communicates better what the product is (not that all graphically...

Maybe they could. I have the temperament and personality to ignore the noise. It's relatively easy for me to ignore comments on social medias, or annoying people in my life and to not care. But I've met numerous people in my life for whom it was very difficult. No amount of "Just don't think...

Yeah... I'm not donating money to a for-profit, no matter how great they are. It just doesn't compute for me.

A niche inside of a niche. It's probably a handful of people being annoying. I can understand the feeling of just not having energy to deal with something, no matter how small it may be.