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My experience is different, currently about PbtA games. And to be sure, Masks is one PbtA game that I have specifically played in a lot during the last year. Ditto Blades in the Dark. This is not because of criticism of the game approach per se, which I’ve actually enjoyed, but more to do with...

OK, well I’ll say again what the charge is - not stated by me initially, by the way - that the game is merely taking a system established in a previous game (Kids on Bikes) and applying it to a similar premise in space. So, the question is: what is innovative about it? Happy to be given a...

I’m not entirely sure what you are even trying to say here, now. Firstly, the 'hot take' was actually stated by another poster. I simply agreed with the notion based on my current experience - so, indeed, this was ‘backstopping’ (?) it. Secondly, I have already stated that I have played, read...

No again - there is no argument here. No defense; nothing to actually counter the point - so it still stands.

You don’t have to answer it, but all this suggests is that you can’t. Hence the default position is sustained. You have literally provided the backing to that opinion by your own response. Why don’t you just admit that you don’t know the game enough to be able to produce a single valid counter...

No it isn’t. The question is: what makes this game innovative? You conspicuously will not answer that question (I dunno - have you actually read it!?) and all you have done so far is use ad hominem against the questioner. The default position of not being able to elaborate on what makes it...

And you can’t apparently elaborate on why they are innovative, so that is not going to fly either. To reiterate, I have played in lots of PbtA and Gumshoe games. I even own a few, and yes I have read them. So with that straw man burnt to a crisp, how about answering the point made?

Well, tell us what is innovative about it then? And, frankly, most of the games that I’ve been offered to play in for this last year have been PbtA or Gumshoe games. I have played them, and come away with the entirely fair outlook about how innovative they all are. They aren’t. And whether or...

Right?! I dunno how controversial it is to say this, but I’ve had similar conversations in my own group. I think game design, as an art form has become stagnant recently. Apocalypse World and Gumshoe are games/systems that are more than a decade old, and simply copying then re-applying the same...

I think if all your character wants is to have lots of fights then high level characters get boring (for me, at least!), fast. It becomes too easy. At higher levels, to me, it’s all about the personal narrative. For example, I had a Dragon Sorcerer who literally wanted to become a Dragon. As...

Well, this is inevitable as soon as both games become standalone to each other - and it should be noted that CoC7E also departed a little from the old BRP system too. In fact, there used to be some disagreements in minor aspects of the rules - like the selection of skills available - between...

I think the general ruleset in Delta Green is more concise and often makes more sense (to me at least). Taking the advancement system, for example, having characters check for failed rolls and then rolling under existing scores at the end of a session makes sense in the light of 'learning from...

Sad loss. Major game designer - the photo of him sitting next to Greg Stafford is pretty iconic. I was hoping to see how his new edition of Superworld would have come out, but best wishes to his family and friends.

The scenarios weren’t railroad’s as much as the characters were put into situations they couldn’t back out of and everything was written with a sense of irony. Like I say, I thought it was brilliant - but not your usual Warhammer fare.

It wasn’t unlamented. I really loved Something Rotten in Kislev - one of the best adventures I’ve ever played in and run. The problem was not that Something Rotten in Kislev wasn’t good, it was that it was incongruous to the rest of the Enemy Within Campaign. The author, Ken Rolston, was best...

I don’t think that WotC wants to publish a new edition of Star-Frontiers/Star*Drive any time soon, because it would be pretty insignificant for them. That is bluntly, the same level for Starfinder as a point of comparison.

If Starfinder was going to make any long term impact it would have done so by now. I wouldn’t be surprised if the sales figures above actually incorporates Starfinder into Pathfinder's overall numbers. Either way, Starfinder's sales numbers are effectively a subset of Pathfinder’s - of interest...

Pathfinder 5E Compatible, here we come?

Minor point of correction here, but Vampire was not a solid No2 all those years - the whole World of Darkness line was. One of the reasons, right now why Vampire 5th didn’t take a hold in the top 5, despite three quarters in a row where it did, was that they stumbled along various companies and...

The case of Cyberpunk overtaking Pathfinder can be attributed two ways of course. The reason why Cyberpunk is successful currently is that it is an archetypal RPG - by which I mean it both encapsulates and has helped define a genre of game that is immediately recognized by the RPG-buying public...