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bovine excrement. It doesn't hit top 5 sellers with three corebooks and top five lines for whole system for several years running without popularity. It's sudden death was due to it being handed off to edge by Asmodee when the MF's therein fired all the RPG staff at FFG and handed the IP to...

No, it's not. But before D&D, there really was not a default; and it was years until D&D became the default. The closest to a default for fantasy prior would be Dunsany... and Dunsany is D&D adjacent... Sword And Sorcery is D&D adjacent. Most Planetary Romance is D&D Adjacent. Dying Earth is D&D...

Sun Jackals: One fight, one conversion. Fini. Sun Fallout Session 0, some play. Woot!

one nitpick: D&D did NOT "take" the default fantasy; it created one. As for what I want to see more of is GM's cheat sheets in the back... Like WFRP 1e, or a handful of more recent games.

Yeah, same. And some non-3e news, too... I no longer hit the news page (most of what matters to me, I see in the forum side.) So two gaming news sites gone in Q2.

It OPENED a year late. There are still products undelivered even in PDF. Too many stretch goals.

I feel some sympathy for the staff losing their jobs in the current environment in the US, but have no positive memories of Polygon. Several "WTF?!?!?! What the «bleep» is the author on?" reactions. Especially when they branched into non-game reviews...

I never expected to live in one, let alone out in the middle of nowhere between two small towns. I had no trouble finding players until after the lockdown...

I'm 20 miles from 3 FLGS and 1 unfriendly LGS; the 3 FLGS all have play space... but only one is it publicly visible. College town. Board games seem to be seeing a resurgence. had a rare night yesterday - someone else showed up for game night, to play a card game. (Disney one.)

Actually, in AD&D and BX, they could get better by casting continual light everywhere... provided they were paid to do so. Each GP was 1 XP.

It's not. Hell, the small town nearest me is tiny. It lacks public spaces... the library has no separate meeting rooms, and closes at 18:00 hrs. the bar closed years ago. Deb's Cafe closes at 15:00. And is closed mondays. Johnboy's Alsea Merchantile Company ("The Merc") is a general store and...

I tried running it. The Wraith was a suitable foe for a party of 4 starting PCs.

Reichstar was similar - a techbook was planned but never materialized. Plus, it's subject matter has caused it to be seen as a dogwhistle - but it's a game about fighting the Nazis in a few centuries on in an alt history where they won WWII... and have a hyperdrive. Or, at least, that's the...

In terms of physical product, I've been in 2 of about 12 that didn't deliver all that was promised. I've had 2 that the delivered product was physically what was promised but was, design-wise, not to my liking and I couldn't tell until after lock-in. The fails: A Land of Narrow Paths - Maps of...

Kickstarter... similar, but add to that the gambling on whether you get what you paid for. Both in terms of quality and in terms of actual delivery of anything.

AS a for profit stock corporation in the US, they have an obligation solely to shareholders, and it's to maximize the value of the stock and the dividends. Staff time on smaller adventures is not the same return on staff time. Mearls and Crawford noted that it wasn't worth the staff time; it...

As an industry: WotC/HasBro to go into bankruptcy. Get a bunch of the IP out of their hands into others' hands. For the benefit of gamers: changes to reduce copyright duration.

Simply put: Not all the rights are unencumbered. Several were licensed. Some have royalties owed if used. Marvel, Conan, Buck Rogers, Indiana Jones: Licensed Games. Licenses died in the 90's. DragonLance: limited rights, exact details not released. Technically, owned by WotC/HasBro via...

I'm good with any level of weirdness that isn't illogical given its premises. I've enjoyed such diverse settings as Mouse Guard (Almost no magic, but talking animals, and mammals generally intelligent), Legend of the Five Rings (loads of clerical and evil magic, plus some Wuxia, plus deities...

I tend to agree for literature... tho' noting that neither Stephanie Meyers nor Joss Whedon id as LGBTQ, and they're the two biggest modern reimainings... I have. Coming from certain fundamentalist religious groups. Yeah. But let's not forget: many 70's and 80's views of vampirism were as a...