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It looks like a quality product, but I could go for years (at least) without seeing another gaming product where the PCs "are not heroes, but raiders and rogues" in a world where "there is no real good or evil ... Everyone has their own agenda and the PCs are adventurers, scoundrels and rogues...

Paladin: Warriors of Charlemagne

I wrote it in. :) Curiously, that, Ravenloft, Arthurian high fantasy, and dark fairy tales were the only things that could stir more than mild interest from me. I guess I'm even more disconnected from D&D than I thought.

The disconnect between the success of the Paladin campaign (400% funded in the first week, "Product We Love" on Kickstarter) and the utter lack of buzz here and on RPGNet is curious to say the least.

The PDF will include SW and M&M sheets as part of the base product; the add-on is the Hero Lab files.

You're probably right...but I don't think the WoD is anything like the juggernaut it was even a decade ago.

The math's a little off--Castle Ravenloft gets 45 pages, of which 15 cover the dungeons and catacombs.

There's one difference--the 3E deck has a "Hero" card where the 2E deck has "Esper." 5E is apparently going back to 2E with "Seer". The other change is apparently a severe allergy to anything that might be taken as 'gendered' language.

Tough to say if they'll incorporate any of the material from the stuff beyond I6, though. On the one hand, Hickman doesn't like the setting. On the other hand, they are using the classic Tarokka deck.

The Polygon interview contains what must be The Marionette. This is the classic deck, with maybe minor updates ("Tempter" instead of " Temptress" ; "Seer" instead of"Esper"). I see they've kept the motif of using the suit symbol in the illustration a number of times equal to the card's value...

Report for Old School Re-Education. ;) Ravenloft is the setting that holds my heart, and it's most of the reason I've paid attention to D&D over the years. But this sounds like Yet Another Return to the Castle, which they've done every edition (albeit only as a boardgame in 4th, although a...

I've seen Melior Via's Accursed at a game store and on Amazon, as well as numerous Troll Lord Games products.

The disappointing thing is that a final Arilyn and Danilo novel was announced but never published.

The 2E PHB sold 300,000+ units in its first year, according to the 1990 TSR catalog. Given the various changes of the past 25 years, I'm not surprised 5E is doing even more sales.

On the philosophical topic, there's a quote from Wizards Presents: Races and Classes that's stuck with me: "The new system [4E] is not overly concerned with simulating interactions between monsters and nonplayer characters when the PCs are not on stage." Theorems we can derive from that...

It is--and it's pretty darned impressive that it's still so high on the rankings, since it's been out for over a year and a half.

The 4E core set sold out its original print run before release, and that was a larger print run than the original 3.0 run. People were definitely interested. It's a new D&D; it's going to dominate the market with anything short of an obvious disaster. That doesn't mean 5E is a failure or...

It is--and it's pretty darned impressive that it's still so high on the rankings, since it's been out for over a year and a half.

The 4E core set sold out its original print run before release, and that was a larger print run than the original 3.0 run. People were definitely interested. It's a new D&D; it's going to dominate the market with anything short of an obvious disaster. That doesn't mean 5E is a failure or...

It's been in a video game and some board games, but is most famous for being the foundation for the first two editions of Runequest and has moved through several other systems since then. It's also the oldest RPG setting still in production, AFAIK.