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I still don't understand the eOne sale. It happened essentially right before the movie came out, and seemed to deflate their whole plan to break into the big leagues, MCU-style. And signal a lack of confidence in their overall TV/movie strategy. Is there something I'm missing, as far as why they...

Any specific examples? There are tons of random table products out there now, and I haven't seen a lot of people repurposing ones from solo products, except maybe from Ironsworn/Starforged. But also, I'm talking specifically about journaling games, where the prompts in tables are, if they're...

Darkness at the Brink of Ohio looks really cool, but solo journaling games are just not my thing. The fact that so much of the design energy in indie games is going into journaling games really bugs me. Like, good for some people, but less so for me. And journaling games don't have the kinds of...

You're seriously shoe-horning a cancel culture gripe into this thread?

If I ran high-prep, combat-heavy games that all had to be in-person, and with some of the people you've talked about playing with, I might be asking some of these questions. But I don't, and I'm still as energized by and obsessed with RPGs as I ever was. Also I get to not feel like game...

This is the Google Drive link that Cass Rea—who, again, to be completely clear, is the collaborator the original author gave the rights over to, and who posted the files because they're no longer on DriveThru or itch—shared...

Wicked Ones, which has since kinda gone into the public domain (author quit the hobby, gave ownership to a collaborator who put it all up on Google Drive for free). Which is too bad, since it had some great ideas. I'm planning on using that mechanic in other games in the future, including...

Really want some details!

That's a really interesting read on Wildsea. I've only skimmed it, since the setting didn't appeal to me, but I did wonder if its mechanics and playloops maybe weren't as tight as I prefer them to be in FitD.

Oof. ETA: Just to clarify, that oof isn't directed toward T2K.

Just want to counterpoint this with my own experience, which is that it runs super smooth and has maybe the best military-style gun combat system I've ever used.

Is there an FitD mechanic that's mostly unique to a given game that you think doesn't work well? For example, I love almost everything about Blades, but I think Entanglements are pretty awkward, repetitive, and sort of anti-RP (which leads into people potentially treating their downtime actions...

There's a same-y quality to a lot of published adventures that cuts across a lot of games and genres, where the PCs are basically stepping into an amusement park-style haunted house, complete with animatronic jump scares and maybe the illusion of free movement, but really there's just one path...

You're missing a big, recurring pushback in this roundup, which is related to your sense that a game needs an essentially unlimited amount of ultra-specific rules that cover every single possible situation, or else it's not a full game. By that logic why stop at your 3000-page mark? A proper RPG...

Hence my reference to the people still engaging with Celebrim.

Wildly incorrect in my experience, and apparently the experience of nearly everyone else still engaging with you in this thread. This only makes sense if GMs and players lack any imagination or creativity, and also assumes that both GMs and players read the rules in equal detail, and become...

Well that's embarrassing for me. Time to crawl into a hole for a while and I guess be real mad at every game I've purchased, all of which feature a glaring lack of mechanics covering the tensile strength of 18th-century carriage wheels.

Either your sarcasm detector is off, or mine is, but context collapse notwithstanding you know we're in complete agreement here, right?

All you want out of an RPG product is...to save you time? GMing is just an optimization problem? This thread is really shining a light into some dark corners. The gall of those RPG fat cats, expecting people to buy what they make!

The abject, sneering disdain toward game designers here. How dare these nincompoops try to entertain you!