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It’s hard to be in awe of the “decades of study and experience” of professional elf-game designers when one man shops like Kevin Crawford consistently release product with demonstrably tighter design, and less systemic issues than the big players. Very much this. How many editions of Shadowrun...

Truth. But in their defense they would be less likely to do so if the professional game designers themselves didn’t vastly overestimate their knowledge of and talent for game design, evaluating balance, gameplay, when releasing poorly play-tested product...

If the OSR game holds true to the B/X AD&D conceit of 1 HD = 1d8; Then It's implied in the monster stat blocks. All NPC and Monster HD are d8's. A Sword wielded by a PC does 1d8 damage. That's your basic encounter math: The old chainmail conceit of 1HD = 1"Hit". How many 1d8 Sword hits can the...

More objectively true Salty epiphanies from my meditations: I'm over making excuses for sloppy game design. When you say that you have worked on a game for x number of years; Why must I still Un-Bork your system when it hits my table? Too many of the industries established names make product...

Nobody is saying it's "harder" to run vs CP2020. As was said in a previous post; in many ways CPRed was a step in the right direction. (Netrunning is a good example) The "Grognard's Lament" here is that considering all the development time CP Red has had, it still had systematic issues on...

This is true. The problem is that it was also a bit of lightning in a bottle, and in my opinion it is apparent that Pondsmith doesn't really get what it is about CP2020 that tickles the fanbases funny bone. Much like what has happened with Vampire the Masquerade... The fanbase likes it to do...

Keeping things more in-line with the crunch level of the Quickstart was the way they should have gone. Cut the skill list in half, keep crits at just +10 over defense. And honestly defenses could be made static, speeding up combat by a lot. I also think that hit locations should only be...

This is what really makes it a waste. It's the same for The Witcher. There are some ideas I actually like. It's just that it seems that they chose to implement them in the most clunky way that they could think of. Just lots of little things that all added up when you actually sat down to play.

This is all completely inexcusable given the amount of time Pondsmith says he worked on the game. There is still a enthusiastic CP2020 community out there. Would it have been so hard for him to go: "Hey, been working on CPRed. Want groups to playtest the living **** out of it, and help me make...

It's not. Because it's not a very good game. I know. I have it, and have played it. I'm a big Witcher fan (Books). I really, really, wanted to like this game. The System just has way too many fiddly bits for what it is trying to do. The Witcher RPG is as if someone set out to design an...

You don't know that. You don't know what any of the rankings mean in terms of actual revenue numbers.

And still no idea of what what that means in terms of actual earned revenue.

So even with having access to the actual financials of the film; Hasbro was wrong to write-down 25 million? HaT vs. Willow is a classic example of the write-down vs. a write-off. Hasbro did a write-down, taking a loss for tax purposes - but not a full write off. Because while a flop at the...

There is no context for what any of those VOD 'rankings' actually mean in terms of revenue earned. We do know this though:

Assuming that you are referring to 5e D&D - in many way it is a game that design wise is still bound by nostalgic expectations. That being said; the idea of Skills working the same way that Magic does has a far better chance of gaining traction than converting D&D's magic system to some kind...

I tend to agree. But the OP's objection was the asymmetry specific to D&D of Magic vs. Skills. The most direct solution to address his complaint would be to make the disparate systems symmetrical - going one direction or the other. MuhVerisimilitude's seems to want to try and fill in holes...

Well, that makes your stance crystal clear. That is the core issue. Which doesn't change my assessment in my previous post: "You either need to make spells work like skills, or skills work like spells." If your alternative system uses a die-roll; then you are just creating yet another...

That's because Spells and skills in D&D work on completely disparate systems. If you want True Symmetry; you either need to make spells work like skills, or skills work like spells. One or the other. Making an alternate skill system that still doesn't work like spells do will not get you...