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If you trust Eric Mona of Paizo as a reliable source (and I do), then yes, the upward trend continues. Over on the Paizo boards, in a post on a speculative thread he made a quick stop to point out that the number of PF Core rulebooks sold had increased every year since its release. There are...

Pathfinder fan here. Running multiple campaigns, subscriber to several lines. Pathfinder all the way, baby!

Hmmm. NO ONE in all of ENWorld is running a campaign set in Midgard?!? I know the trend is for forums to be heavily skewed towards talking about crunch, but c'mon. Nobody has a game that they want to talk about? Doesn't anybody talk about the games they run anymore?

So the Midgard Campaign Setting by Kobold Press has been catching my eye of late. For those runnings games set in that world, please tell me about your campaigns! What kind of PCs do your players run, what kind of stories have you told, & what pleasantly surprised you and what rubbed you...

Forbes also interviewed the 13th Age guys about that game. I don't think Forbes' attention is indicative of D&D going "mainstream".

Thread full of awesome! Thanks for putting all of this up. I'm a huge fan of the Conan RPG and was supremely disappointed when Mongoose lost the license. Although, if they'd take the license RuneQuest/Legendary they'd have ultimately lost me. I've switched over to Pathfinder as I started...

No. The simple answer is likely the more credible one. Someone made a bonehead decision and burned a tremendous amount of fanbase goodwill pulling the PDFs originally. Years later, someone new recognized the error and saw the "Absence of product" period as a good window to re-enter the space...

Passing the Torch – 2012 Summary We often see the doomsayers predicting the imminent demise of the RPG hobby, and given the gray at my temples, I can certainly say that I’m part of the aging RPG community. Graceful aging, I assure you, but aging nonetheless. However, two years ago, I...

Amen to that, amigo.

I'd say by the OP's criteria I'm a serious gamer but would gladly be a hardcore RPGer if real life would permit it. In 2012, I've brought 10 new gamers into the hobby, but we're all playing Pathfinder. Some have never heard of D&D and for some, it's a game that their dad played. ;) Which is...

So after years of hearing people decrying the evils of Hasbro corporate suits micromanaging WotC into any of the perceived ills the D&D brand has suffered, unreasonable profit expectations, and ham-fisted protection of intellectual property, the mere rumor of Disney acquiring Hasbro and we’ve...

I thought that the show was very cool. For me, it hit the right marks. Good blend of "now" and "origin". Seems it will be taking the flashback route to reveal the origin over time which I greatly prefer to a rushed "got to get this out of the way" style origin that you often see in movies...

In my experience, rules/edition absolutely matters. A good set of rules supports the story and largely moves into the background. A bad set of rules constantly interferes with story execution or slows play. For the stories, characters, & gameplay that I wish to depict and that my players want...

That pretty much sums it up. I don't doubt that TS sees 3e & 4e as he describes, but I don't see 3e as having "unhelpful vagueries and obfuscatory rules" and I certainly don't view 4e as having "clinical precision". As I stated with the rest of my post, if you've got people viewing 3e & 4e...

Apologies for the tangent, but looking at the following statement: I have such a visceral negative reaction to how much is wrong in that sentence (from my PoV, obviously) that it reinforces the conclusion that players with my tastes and players with your tastes are HIGHLY unlikely to ever sit...

I think the problem was more one of people's assumptions of what modularity meant and how they imposed those assumptions with little or no basis beyond some vague WotC platitudes about modularity. Speculation is normal, but some folks were taking a sentence from Mike Mearls or Monte Cook that...

Random Impressions: Tepid applause at first mention of D&D Next, which surprised me given this was GenCon and presumably a pro-D&D/WotC crowd in the room. It was a Keynote, not a roundtable, so Teleprompter didn’t bother me when it was an individual speaker. Sorry, fans don’t control the...

1. As others have stated, this is implausible because Hasbro is known for NOT selling its intellectual properties. 2. The number of Polyanish dominoes that would have to fall into place would put this into "Odds of winning the Powerball" realm of possibility. 3. Even if all that were to come...

Not a fan of auto-succeed. But then, I'm not a fan of misses that do damage, either...

Initial reactions include: Intrigued by the setting. Uninspired/unimpressed with the mechanics teasers. Hoping for a PFRPG or M&M version.