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Good point. And it was a good idea to showcase DH in that manner.

Age of Umbra isn't remotely grim-dark. This isn't low-tier Warhammer Fantasy or Mothership-level dark. AoU has a grim aesthetic but... there's nothing mechanically enforcing this except for the scar = corruption mechanic. Otherwise, it's heroic fantasy through and through -- PCs are...

I’ve worked in the entertainment industry for years as an executive, and I’ve seen this a lot… Especially with newer production companies. The principals hire someone in a VIP position for where they're at as a company (they're growing, looking for projects and investment)...and then they bide...

I backed Nimble but I will admit it's hard for me to get excited about it in a year where games like Draw Steel and Daggerheart -- that both question basic assumptions about heroic fantasy roleplay and evolve in cool directions -- are getting released vs. games like Nimble and DC20 that both end...

Hot take but not that hot I think: CR is done with very long campaigns. Everyone thinking C4 will be 3-4 years long but... I think that model is done. I don't think the numbers make sense anymore... their viewership dwindles over the long run and the length becomes this obstacle to getting new...

No idea they were printing in the U.S. I didn't back the KS and don't get updates.

Why weird? Current tariffs on Italian goods coming into U.S. are 20%... 10% during the 90-days pause period.

That’s great news for Daggerheart. Perkins in DP’s own Instagram post talks about expanding upon what DP has already put out as well as other games. And Travis quoted in the LA Times article: “When you look at the opportunity to bring in 15, 17 years of experience, pedigree, pipeline, timeline...

9?! You are a bad-ass!

I got another copy delivered from Amazon today. It was unexpected… they had been telling me anywhere from June 23 to July 15.

I’m very glad that you cannot give Hope to other PCs. I think then it becomes this messy shared resource thing and individual achievement gets downplayed. Do you want to help people out? Aid them in their action rolls so they’re rolling some duality dice and maybe they gain hope. Or take those...

I might be blind but I didn't see it above... Derik over at Knights of Last Call. Lots of great insight into game design and how any particular rpg fulfills its stated objectives. The channel started out with Pathfinder 2e focused content but, while it has some of that now, Derik himself is...

It's actually not, one of the CC licenses would have worked fine and do work for fine for a bunch of publishers, but previous post proved my point which was... companies do stuff for reasons that benefit them. I see people getting unhappy at Darrington for their license and it's undeserved.

I hope it's successful for them. They don't have a ton of events and it's not cheap but it's first year so I get it. I know they were aiming for a Father's Day con here but I'm surprised they didn't want to place it some distance from the last Strategicon which was just 3 weeks ago and it's...

Maybe for similar reason that Paizo didn't just use any of the robust and excellent Creative Commons licenses instead of creating the ORC?

The more the game shows others that it's not just D&D but rolling 2d12 instead, the better. Because otherwise why change rpgs, and especially why change to one that has 75% less character options and abilities and spells? Showing the game is fundamentally different and more than...

I'm not gatekeeping here like I've seen others.. just remarking on Mercer and this particular campaign. I'm glad the game seems accessible to a wide variety of folks.

yea but it's best practices based on fiction-first gaming and the book's own text and that he often fails to do it is not a great showcase of the system.

I thought ep 2 was a way better showcase for the system than the first ep. And the Death Moves was genuine fire in actual play -- loved how that brought the table to life. Mercer still doesn't bother to describe and change the fiction according to how people rolled with hope/fear and simply...

It's just a choice of words. Tone and vibe I want with each genre can be totally different. In terms of what I want for the characters, space opera will not map at all to gritty crime drama. It's all about genre and I don't get trying to answer the question without addressing that as a...