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Seems the OP's vagueness has resulted in two questions being answered: 1: If D&D wasn't released in 1974 - would RPG's be invented anyway? 2: If WotC didn't bail out TSR and they went under - what RPG would have taken D&D's place. So first, question number one... 1: If D&D wasn't released...

A very astute move by WotC. People were putting forward their best ideas. And now WotC owns them all... So now none of those setting ideas can be melded with the d20 OGL to create a competitive product. Even if WotC never did much with Eberron, stifling potential future competition, and...

I think the whole point of 'Corefinder' is that they are going to fix the underlying issues of 3.5/PF. It doesn't matter if they go into the same design space as 5e, because they are going after the current groups still playing 3.5 and PF1e that haven't moved over to 5e or PF2. IMHO Pazio went...

I readily admit that as just a random guy on the internet; I have no clue about your financials. And it is very easy to tell someone what they should do with time money and resources that are not your own! As much as most RPG companies would love to have PF2's sales numbers, It is pretty clear...

First - you don't need full stat blocks for NPC's. They're NPC's. Redhammer is correct, appendix B is the #1 pace to go. Just remember you don't have to copy the full stat block to use them in the game. All you really need is the HP, AC, and what attacks they have. Baldurs_Underdark has it...

By Pazio's own admission they never fixed the underlying issues with 3.x when they did PF1e. They basically just layered an employee's house rules on top of the OGL. And those rules leaned into the featapalooza design that 3.x had become.. “Corefinder” - Actually sounds very interesting...

Don't think in terms of an "arc". Never have an Overarching "story" Because you don't know what your players are going to do. You will save yourself lots of time and effort by never wasting time on either. Now, having a solid campaign hook is a Good thing: This is Wisdom. Redhammer speaks...

I never said 4e wasn't ambitious. I said: I cut WotC slack for 3e because it was their first crack at bat. In hindsight they did two big things that added complexity, 1-20 lvl HP progression, and featapalooza ivory tower design. This introduced both complexity and scaling issues in the...

He was used as an example of a solo act making a complete product... Devil's advocate: People can and have played AD&D1e RAW. I have my own issues with it, but lots pf people still love it - even if only as a resource. I do buy it, because the need to push back against what are ostensibly...

This is fantastic - and evokes a feeling of a living virtual world that the PC's live in - and does not revolve around them! Forget "narrative". This kind of thing is not railroady at all. As an additional dimension you can have player take part in "patron play", outside of the regular game...

Video game design, Yes. I have a friend that works at Crystal Dynamics - and the processes explained to me were nuts...! But while there is some crossover/correlation between the two media, RPG's are different beasts. There is no need for a overly large and sprawling design team. Gygax did...

True. But the context here is a bit different. It’s not like the new DL novels haven’t been mentioned in gaming related news from time to time recently. Yet the only acknowledged from WotC has been the sound of cricket’s chirping... Even when members of the D&D dev team have offhandedly...

I don’t think the new novels have anything to do with what WOTC is planning. All info about the new DL trilogy has come from Hickman and Weiss. All of it. WOTC has yet to acknowledge their existence in any way. If WOTC do any new DL material it will have absolutely nothing to do with the...

15 to 30 is a ridiculous number of people unless you're crediting every piece of art in the book done by a different artist. The design by committee does seem to be a WotC speciality... And as for 'aiming for the widest possible audience' - IMHO it was the stakes and tension that have...

Yes. Hell yes. There is no reason for any RPG company to be in an expensive area. None. WotC can get away with it because of Magic money, and it is now plugged into a corporate giant. They are a total outlier. Nobody else can. Although even though they are in a position to pay more to hire...

This is where your underlying assumption is wrong. D&D has always had been its own specific genre of fantasy. Because D&D has always had a strong implied fantasy setting In the three core books. Broadly speaking the implied fantasy of D&D has been the fantasy setting tropes first set forth in...

Actually I think that the mechanical conventions inform how 'generic' a given rules set can be. Yes D&D has been adapted to different settings - but like I said in my post above; those adaptations have adapted all D&D's Race, Class, and Magic assumptions of the core book. Making them nothing...

I disagree. All the 'new settings' are just variations on a theme, as they all account for the race, class, and magic assumptions of the core D&D rules set. Because heaven forbid that they are not fully compatible with the 5e PHB. D&D from TSR to WotC; has traditionally done a very good job...

It's been out since 2012... If they wanted to, that is plenty of time to establish a game line around it. (With a different name IMHO...) It is what it was: a bone tossed to the people that liked the Stormbringer/Elric! rules set. In my opinion you were 100% correct when you said: "Chaosium...

Well... Concerning Magic World; IMHO that is a situation of their own creation. If they put 1/4 of the effort that's been put in Gorlantha, into a setting for magic world, things would be different. That being said.... I believe this to be 100% true. Chaosium is just not interested in doing...