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Three to four hours is also the range that's most common for me. It's hard for me to GM with focus and intensity for more. If it fits between lunch and dinner, or dinner and have-to-go-home time then it's a good length for me.

I agree. I scrolled through the list of pledge tiers on the right, and being so conditioned by other Kickstarters, I was expecting to have to decipher twelve different tiers with different options. But no; you either want the PDF, or you want the PDF and the print book.

Yes! I own both Into the Odd and Electric Bastionlands. Both books are gorgeous. I never owned the original Into the Odd, but the Remastered version with the orange spine is a beautiful small book.

Chris McDowall makes some incredible RPG products, and I couldn't be more hyped for Mythic Bastionlands. Also... just look at that beauty of a cover.

Deathmatch Island. Now that's how you do a tabletop RPG hype video. I've been repeating for a few years how bad the TTRPG industry is at showcasing their products and hyping people about them.

Is it me or Cubicle 7 are incredibly productive with Warhammer Fantasy? Whenever I see a new book on the table of my FLGS there seems to be another one being Crowdfunded.

As others have mentioned, asking players to clarify what they want to achieve will drastically reduce this problem. I also would bring it a health dose of "Let it Ride", a rule from Burning Wheel (also present in other games, but named in BW!). It goes as follow: "A player shall test once...

I've managed to hold back and not buy TOR 2E multiple times (being reasonable). But it's really hard. I'm not too interested to play in a so established settings as Middle-Earth, but holy hell are Free League in a class of their own when it comes to books, layout and art quality. And I'm also...

I have some issues with stretch goals sometimes, but it's really context dependent. I really like when projects increase the quality of the product when reaching certain stretch goals: adding foil to the cover, adding a ribbon, improving the quality of the paper, including a small print of some...

I'm a big fan of Chris' work. I've also been following the development of this game for a few months. I wonder if anyone else had a healthy amount of play with either Into the Odds and Electric Bastionlands are are excited for it. Into the Odds had such a big impact on the indie scene of...

I'm a big fan of 4E. But I won't pile on, most of the things that I like about it were already mentioned. However, I always homebrewed and didn't touch the official settings. Why is Nentir Vale getting so much love? Isn't it really small?

I agree. The amount of money crowdfunded is not the measure that interest me the most. Backers are. There's so many Kickstarters that have their numbers bloated by stuff like minis and other accessories that are not necessarily tied to the system/game/setting. You could argue that the backer...

One thing that Paizo absolutely excels at is cramming their books to the brim with options, objects, ideas and monsters. I own all the Starfinder books and there's enough material in there for several lifetimes.

As opposed to newer editions? I've been circling around Traveller for a while, but I got some contradicting advices left and right about what edition to get. The newest Mongoose edition was on my radar.

I'm not done with my current readings, but I bought a copy of Rogues of Merth by Robert Zoltan. A more modern take on Sword & Sorcery is exactly what I'm feeling for!

What's even pay to win in a VTT?

I dove in This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. It's not my typical reading, but I'm enjoying it and it's pretty short. Last week I bought the Book of the new Sun by Gene Wolfe. Excited to start it.

In my experience, I have two recommendations: 2400 (Link) is a super lightweight rule set. You basically get a ton of three pages pamphlets that all focus on a specific flavor of Sci-Fi. It's incredibly simple, lightweight and easy to run. I wouldn't run an incredibly long campaign as it might...

Betrayal? Time passes and things change. They supported PF1E for one full decade. The company and the creators inside it will want to move to something else at some point; it's good for them, the company and the hobby. I'd roll my eyes if they had moved on a year or two after releasing a game...

Advantage and Disadvantage would be undesirable in PF2E. It's a very convenient and simple mechanic (I really like it), but it removes granularity when it comes to narrative advantages and disadvantages. You either have advantage, disadvantage, or you don't. You might have an enchantment, your...