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If you go look at the listing under Amazon, you'll see that it's a book, but also called a "game manual." I was looking at the Canadian site, and they don't have that category. I noticed that the new Eberron book used to have a ranking and be listed as a book, but it is now also listed as a...

Except that I followed the 5.0 PHB for years, and it was typically at about 100 to 180 for the entire time. There was an ongoing discussion about how many books the PHB was selling going back years, and I always found that, at least according to Amazon, it was doing well.

Oh I'm sure they don't mean anything. Except that they made it to the top 10 of all books. Now I'm sure this will likely drop off shortly, but I was wondering how long it would take someone to say, "This doesn't mean anything!" I plan on looking at this every couple of weeks. I used to do it...

I was just looking at Amazon Canada after someone mentioned it. Daggerheart is #10 in books, while the Player's Handbook 2024 is #313. So, at least for now, Daggerheart is winning the Canadian pocket book.

Daggerheart uses rest mechanics between encounters to manage the adventuring day. The thing is, the GM gains Fear when you rest, so I asked my players what they wanted to do. They managed the situation quite well. In the game I played in, I was playing a support character so as long as I felt I...

I'm not advocating for this, but I just opened Gemini and asked it "create a narrative rpg for me using six-sided dice and tarot cards for action resolution." And it did. And it wasn't terrible. Then I asked "what would the combat system be like for the system you just created?" ... and it made...

And here we go again. It will be interesting to see how many other names come out in the next couple of weeks. Whenever something like this happens, people always say "In video games, after launch you see this sort of thing all the time, and there's the 'non-edition-edition' that just came...

I think it's sort of funny that we're discussing debts as if the legally enforceable kind are the only ones that exist. While there may not be a legal obligation to fulfill, there is a debt nonetheless. I know that I've broken off friendships and even left a job over these kinds of debts. I'm...

It is really interesting to see Daggerheart selling more books than D&D, even if only for a little bit. I'll have to check Amazon Canada to see how things stand a month from now.

This has been my experience as well. There are some folks out there who really don't like Daggerheart and have expressed that dislike very strongly. Maybe it's that they don't like Critical Role. Maybe they don't like narrative play, and maybe they like a specific style of OSR play that's...

I think that's a really good question. I think there are examples of games that had huge Kickstarters but no one played. Once a big group is playing and having fun with one, not sure that I can think of one that's faded away. Now I'm sure someone will bring one up to prove me wrong.

As I've been thinking about this, I do a sports analogy. When a baseball or football team makes a move to acquire the best-known and respected talent that's suddenly available, I think of it as making a big commitment. Okay, so the analogy breaks down in that there's no world series or super...

This is really interesting. I think that taking people from the "tradional" RPG world says something about where they want Daggerheart to go, rather than the indie scene. I'm excited to see where this goes.

We ran a six-session campaign using the beta rules, and we had what I will call "ant and grasshopper" Hope issues. Some of the group treated Hope like a resource they hoarded for emergencies. They ran into the max Hope issue pretty hard. On the other hand, we had the "oh, I have a Hope? Better...

I wouldn't have put it in quite the same way, but yeah. I think that the Saving Throw system for 5E is harsh. I would love to hear the design goals behind having a binary "it gets better/no change" system.

So I ran a session. In person. I feel like there was an alignment of the spheres to make this possible. There's a new bar/restaurant near where I live that's based on gamers and gaming. One of the things they have are private rooms to rent to play board games or RPGs. So I thought I'd get a...

I think the best part of this situation (if I can call something in this situation anything like good) is that Judges Guild, as a player in gaming, is done. I really liked their adventures and content growing up but that was a long time ago, and ... yikes, since then. I think we're about done here.

I'll suggest the Free City of Haven. I remember this from back when it was released. I played a game in it but didn't own it myself. I think this is still available from channels.

I picked up the second edition due to some strong recommendations from friends who are very BECMI influenced, so I guess I'd agree. It is very much inspired by that edition, but the thing I find interesting is that they put in a system for building spells/abilities/monsters and they follow it...

That's great to know. I played it before Wrath came out, and I had to use a mod for both camera rotation and turn-based. Both of those are in Wrath by default. That definitely makes it better. I did really enjoy Kingmaker.