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I don’t think it’s accurate to say the system is more polished. It’s tuned differently, as they’ve been doing with all of their YZE games. It’s similar to how Modiphius tweaks 2d20 mechanics for different games.

But Free League just did Ruins of Symbaroum, the 5e version of their previously released Symbaroum. This stuff isn't complicated. Also, they would have called it AiME 2e.

Lotta people commenting on here with no apparent knowledge of The One Ring 2E, which is a bummer, since that's an amazing game that's lovingly faithful to the novels. TOR 2e isn't AiME and neither is this. Was that ever really in doubt?

Thirsty Sword Lesbians has one of the best iterations of PbtA mechanics, but it's PbtA through and through. And while you could take the romance and emotional intimacy out of it (the game states that sex isn't a requirement at all—it's about relationships, but friendly and romantic) you wouldn't...

It'll be interesting to see if they stick to their guns, and avoid making magic-users playable (as in TOR 2e), or go full 5e and have tons of spellcasters. I hope they don't budge on that, though I can only imagine the outcry from folks who don't really know the source material.

In hindsight I guess it should have been obvious that Darrington would win Fan Favorite Publisher. You can take the WotC out of the Ennies, but 5e's gonna 5e.

Even the $1 bundle is incredible. Wow.

That's a big markdown!

Purely anecdotal evidence, but one of my daughters' 12-year-old friends just started playing 5e, and wears a homemade Hellfire Club T-shirt. And now my daughter's likely to start playing with that group. Would these kids have started playing D&D at some point? I think definitely. But that...

This sounds genuinely and surprisingly cool!

I didn't realize the campaign was offering so many doodads. That definitely helps explain hitting such a high number as a first-time publisher. Whole lot of people pledging at the $250 level.

This one seems like a lock for $1M: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkey-dm/eldritch-hunt/description

Any day you're overshadowed and relegated to second banana.

This approach is fantastic, and leans toward my current favorite way of playing or running, which is as improv-heavy as possible, including finding connections after the fact. But I don't think that's what most folks who use random encounters really do. A wandering monster is just a wandering...

Yeah but give Chandler some credit here. Importantly, that guy isn't just some stranger with no relation to anything. And you can bet his presence is going to push the narrative forward somehow.

See, I think you'd be hard-pressed to come up with a specific, actual example of those other kinds of narratives having completely plot-irrelevant encounters like that. We sometimes imagine they work like that, in the abstract, but movies tend to be very tightly constructed (sometimes maybe too...

Couldn't agree with this more. IMO random, filler combats in any game are boring and narrative-breaking—we don't like that stuff in movies, shows, or books, why would we want that in a game? If you have fewer fights, but they have bigger stakes, then someone going down should usually signal that...

You think marketing folks for the D&D movie are using the Russian disinfo playbook, creating fake outrage posts, despite the fact that toxic fan activity has previously led to review-bombing and worse? Please, don't give marketers that much credit as conspiracy theory archvillains. They're...

That seems reminiscent of the "Trump is playing 4D chess" stuff that always defied Occam's Razor. Dumb guys are dumb. But it does seem a little fishy.

If someone can use that link to get access, and the permissions are also set to allow them to edit the files, then...very not good. But the legality of changing those files is a little questionable, afaik.