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For those trying to get super powers, note that the Winsome Wasp did not become empowered by being stung by a radioactive wasp. That was genetic/biochemical engineering and Pym particles.

A lot of stuff has been going on in the 1½ years since they ran the crowdfunder, both in gaming and in the rest of the world. Plus they've not been very good at hyping it lately. Personally, I've started a Savage Worlds East Texas University campaign since then, and that's probably going to take...

You engage with it the same way you do with a check in D&D, which is to say generally not unless there's some external mechanic that lets you do it (e.g. in D&D you have things like Bardic Inspiration that lets you retroactively mess with a roll). Some games that use Blackjack rolls do have ways...

The talk about D&D being undermonetized is a few years old, and I think Sigil was a reaction to it – "Hey, let's make a really shiny VTT that looks like a AAA computer game and where we can sell virtual minis and terrain and make AAAAALL the money." Turns out that doing that costs a lot of money...

Being clean-shaven doesn't do Pedro Pascal any favors:

It's not a decision-making mechanic. It's a simple way of dealing with opposed rolls and quality-of-success. If you start with a linear roll-under system, it's easy to at first assume that the lower your roll, the better you did. Succeeding by 10 is better than succeeding by 2. If we're...

Blackjack mechanics, when using a single die (d100 counts as single in this case) to create a uniform distribution, is basically just a simplification of using margins of success where you don't need to do any subtraction. For example, let's say you're using a d20-based roll-under system where...

And backers have received their PDFs.

I think the Death-focused stories, to some degree, are about Death's personality changing from LN to something closer to NG, but still bound by the nature of the role to act LN. This is particularly seen in two scenes in Hogfather. Toward the end, there is the Grand Explanation of the role of...

The one thing about the Magic format panels though is that they are primarily metagame-oriented. They deal with things like card bans and deck construction rules/parameters. AFAIK, they have little to no influence on the actual releases – they might be consulted on certain things within their...

Wizards have had the Pauper format panel since early 2022. According to the announcement, they were formed because the format was fairly popular, but not popular enough for Wizards to dedicate enough internal resources to it so they figured it was better to have prominent community folks provide...

I think you're focusing too much on the creator spotlight part. The interesting part is the advisory group. It sounds a lot like the Commander Format Panel, which Wizards formed from the old Commander Rules Council and Commander Advisory Group when they took over managing the format. It's a way...

I don't think they have one for "Magic" as such. They do have groups for various Magic formats – Commander and, I believe, Pauper.

I disagree that you need to start adventuring, or at least start an RPG campaign, as a novice. You can, but you definitely don't have to. The hobbits in Lord of the Rings might be novices, but Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Boromir, and Gandalf certainly aren't. Amos Burton, Naomi Nagata, James...

I like it for games that are... I guess you could call it "fundamentally human-sized", and which use opposed rolls a lot. For example, the Troubleshooters is a game where you play competent-but-normal people (like Tintin or Spirou), and uses the mechanic (with a d100 base), and additionally...

I definitely wouldn't classify Granny as Lawful. I see her as either Chaotic or Neutral Good. Do the right thing, in this moment, law, tradition, and authority be damned. "You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just...