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As nerds, we love to show how smart we are -- even to the point that we'll destroy the wonder of the very thing we enjoy if it means we score a "smart" point with our friends in the room.

And that there is the reason sci-fi ttrpgs are going to always be an uphill battle. For most fantasy games, the DM points to which forest the elves live and which mountain range the dwarves live and it's off to rolling dice. The second a DM pulls out a star map, or even describes how FTL work...

But Mystara does has immortals and a whole region dedicated to their shenanigans - the Hollow Earth - but that might be the exception that proves the rule. Unless you specially want to engage in those rule, how much does it matter in actual day-to-day play? Honestly, for D&D (or the ttrpg...

Source books? That would be only one book with with about 8 to 10 pages a piece. It think that's what WotC for them back in 3e, I think. (Explorer's Edition?) It's well established in the industry that the deeper the tier of supplement, the smaller the return. Heck, CGL couldn't even justify...

D&D, at its heart, is a tool kit. It's just as valid for the answer to be, "My version of Mystara has no sorcerers." At the time, the AD&D books for Mystara/Karameikos mainly focused on politics because rule wise, there was nothing exotic or fancy to add. And the rare races were also...

And has one of the few 1-20 Level Adventure League games in one setting. That's pretty much full on Plot Point campaign.

It looks like South Florida is going to support Free RPG Day.

Oh, yeah. I forgot this one. The tropes around this one are so common that any "clues" you provide will raise red alerts with your players:

The Adventure book says everything but Isle of Mist can be played in any order. That said:

Because, sadly, vanilla is where the money is, so I don't see that as paradox. The vast majority of D&D customers want "same but different." The more imaginative you get, the smaller your audience, which is a space where "release actually intriguing campaign worlds" should be on the top of...

That's the rub, though, a "nod" and "creativity" can be highly subjective. And how far back does one establish this criteria? So far 5e has done lots of creative stuff that's been mentioned above. Some people might love the idea of a body horror biotech "necromaner" is the bee's knees but not...

Why? We have plenty of creatively daring companies and people in the industry. And honestly, many of those companies are not great at other things our industry needs more of. (Now a days, the phrase, "For gamers, from gamers." is a red flag for me. The more interesting argument would be "how...

Riddermound is Riddermound is tougher than it looks. You may want to soften it up up. Popular alternate choices are Tower of Sighs and the Oracle Cave. They will still be tough combats but there will be opportunities to use diplomacy (actually negotiation) instead. Also highlight DB is a...

That's one way to look at it. It also means the more creative worldbuilding is open for 3PP, who don't need to justify their earnings to corporate overloads. It also means there's opportunity for those who get laid off from WotC as they build their own studios. My opinion, there may be more...

My personal opinion, that's what D&D is for, especially if it supposed to be an on ramp for the hobby. Through both TSR and WotC, Forgotten Realms and Mystara, are some of the original kitchen sink settings, they have been best sellers due to offering various jumping off points with different...

More like the Hugos with categories for genre related projects, fan podcasts, etc. Those categories, however, stay around. While the ENNIES focus has always been on the actual games, I think the DJs now try to focus on other things - be it a game, business model, gaming movement (actual play)...

Nice! I wish more ttrpg designers in the future also get some professional recognition. It would make up for the ironic attitude of many SF/F editors and writers in the past snubbing ttrpg-media tie in novels for decades as not being "real" fiction. Especially since lit fiction was saying the...

Uhhh. Which one?

ROLE VTT is now integrating Owlbear Rodeo for its mapping features. I think we will see more of of these sort of team ups as the smaller VTTs find ways to fill the gaps.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skydawn/expedition-from-the-mysterious-peaks