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Only quibble: Gaming technology also changes and advances due to innovation in game design.

I have to read for a living, so its a touch of a busman's holiday quite frankly.

Honestly, this is the heart of the issue. This isnt a demand for material. This is a demand for the spotlight.

Kinda a Ship of Theseus situation, under a long enough timeline. Mechanical refinement and drift inevitably mean that some future version of the game will have no mechanical connection to yea olde Chainmail.

Is it a market worth pursing though? As a 47 year old gamer with near 40 years in the hobby, my tastes are pretty diverse, but the "older gamer" who is grousing for content aimed at their specific niche tastes, are there enough of them to justify pushing past all the demands and complaints to...

Colour me intrigued.

For me, the concern is the acts of one or a couple of PCs. If the whole party wants to go ham and be murder hobos, well then that's the game for as long as I am enjoying indulging that gameplay. It's when one or a couple of PCs act unilaterally to choose violence that you really have problems...

I do think that, due to Covid, I am going to be more careful about games I back for kickstarter. Small publishers often have no leverage to aid them when manufacturing delays hit. I do feel "Kickstarter is not a store" cuts both ways, with creators needing to know that they are going to draw a...

While I agree, it is also my experience that people can fall into the trap of obsessing about how to develop the framework instead of applying the framework in a practical setting. But then again, one person's obsessing is another's focus. I just tune out when people theorycraft on problems to...

All this. For a bad analogy, this is more the physics of game design than the practical mechanics. Can one benefit by examining this? Sure. But one can also go down some deep rabbit holes of some rather dedicated navel gazing and not come out with practical applications for one's own game...

1st ed Bard.

So for me, balance in DnD relates to combat and how having 1-2 characters who are significantly more powerful than the rest of the party can throw off encounter design, most of which tends to relate to defensive stats like AC or forms of damage mitigation and the like. So as example, if say the...

If you object to DnD lacking grounding in a proper time period in terms of technology, I have some bad news for you...

So I was reading the excellent post, D&D General - Spelljammer Collector’s Guide Revisited and got to thinking about what I feel fundamentally hindered Spelljammer from being more popular. Quite simply, classic Spelljammer was a retcon. It radically upended D&D cosmology and history for multiple...

Thanks for this. It really got me thinking.

Thanks all for the discussion so far. I did want to further clarify my intentions. Some people are speaking about the GM not rolling and the rolls of the players determining all outcomes. For anyone seeking a system that does this, please check out the excellent Red Markets. Also, the current...

For clarity, you can note that this thread is not in the DnD section, it is in general RPG. I don't mention DnD or even use the term DM, instead using GM.

A post about "fudging rolls" as a GM has made me ponder. Have you ever considered, as a GM, never rolling dice on your end. Players still roll, you don't. Things hit or miss based on your judgement for what the story needs. If you fudge rolls, you already do this in a sense. You decide that a...

"everyone has the right to an opinion." Totally true. However, if you offer up your own opinion for public consumption, you have to accept it will be subject to public scrutiny. For good and for ill.

Grognards are gonna nard. Its a golden age of gaming. People who don't like the current DnD tone can easily either A: Just run the game with whatever tone they like or B: Buy one of dozens of other fantasy RPGs out there right now, actively publishing, that more fits their needs. Warhammer...