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Precisely why I love the Cortex Plus and Prime versions of the system: they have all of the crazy "dice tricks" from SFX, but the addition is ultimately going to be at most 3 dice, usually only 2, and most often d6, d8, or d10. The numbers remain pretty constrained, but there's loads of...

Pretty much this. For a long time, that description kept me at bay because I thought "Yet another superhero universe..." but when I finally got around to reading X-O Manowar (Kindt's run) through a comic book discussion group I joined, it blew me away. The universe as a whole is much more...

So sadly true. My mom had great insurance and still ended up with tens of thousands in bills because of a single ambulance ride. Apparently you have to pay the EMTs their full year's salary each time, plus the expensive ambulance jet fuel or whatever they run on.

That's great news! As a Cortex fanatic, I'm a little sad they couldn't make that work out even after all this time, but I suspect the system they'll create will be all sorts of awesome anyway!

Try closer to many thousands of Fresh Takes, by this point. There's a new one launching on itch or KS every 30 minutes, it seems.

Planescape, perhaps more than most campaign settings (arguably maybe Dark Sun?), had one of the most intrusive and implicit metaplots of all of D&D. See Faction War for how that all went, but the seeds of it were throughout most (all?) of the published adventures: Dead Gods, Modron March, and a...

For sure! If it helps at all, my personal "best of" monster books are: Most recent edition of the Hackmaster bestiary (Hacklopedia of Beasts, I think they are called), The Monster Overhaul, and AD&D's monster trifecta (MM1, MM2, and Fiend Folio). Each of these delivers some absolute "killer...

I believe one of the (many!!) versions of the Tome of Horrors by Necromancer/Frog God did this. I want to say it was the Swords & Wizardry version of ToH Complete, since it had a lot more "white space" in it converting the monster stats from 3.5 to S&W, so they made up for that with plot hooks...

I think you're going to see a lot of hypocrisy on this stuff as companies get a handle on what each aspect of "AI-generative creative" means. In this case, though, I think it's a legacy product, because I haven't seen anything released/updated on this since over two years ago, unless my...

I hope they do a good editing pass on it. I have the 5e version and it is a great book filled with at least 75% solid adventures (maybe as high as 90 but I haven't played THAT many yet!). But the editing was rough on a lot of adventures: missing references, vague intro text, tie-ins between...

Prime should always be three (two if you use one of the No Effect Die mods). In total, I tend to go with 4-5 sets because I love an optional set or two to differentiate characters. 6-7 is my personal limit, though I've seen 8 work... Kinda. Exactly. I'd just do a single die. Only make them a...

Up to the group. The description can be short but clearly be informed by the traits used, or the player can flat out state why they are using some/all of the traits, or whatever you prefer. It's probably easiest to get in the habit of stating why each trait is used at first, so players get used...

Glad to hear that! I'm also on the fence. Setting sounds almost verbatim what I've been trying to build on my own, but (unsurprisingly) more developed and fleshed out. ...but it's 5e, and unless I can convert it pretty easily to not-5e, it may be too much system-stuff I'm not going to use. The...

Something interesting to me is how Demiplane is capturing all the big name publishers and systems, while Role and Fari are focused on more indie/niche titles and systems. They're all solidly in the digital space, but are very encouraging of games that have healthy, sometimes even innovative...

Although the Marvel Multiverse RPG had a rocky start, the Demiplane version of it has been swiftly updated, and seems to load content very fast. It wasn't mind blowing, but it was extremely handy from the jump. With their focus on additional functions you don't see in DDB, I really think they...

Literally nothing they've done since Jan 1st has made any sense. It's like is a weird other multiverse version of WOTC took over on NYE and it's not just "the evil version" but actually the "everyone is Loki version". Mischief, betrayal, illusions, enchantments...it all adds up.

Yeah, that's probably the biggest reason why Swordsfall became vaporware. How is "we're looking at systems, and because we're unsure of the status of Cortex Prime at this moment, we've got people on the team that can do game design" damning? Since it's Kickstarter, the point is that you hand...

Basically everyone involved in Into the Motherlands has been professionally involved in gaming for quite some time now. Even if they aren't all game designers and publishers by trade, they've been very close with people that are, and several of them have plenty of credits to their own names that...

Very good point!

Is it possible (or maybe the better question is "is it likely") that they get a cut of the box office? I don't really know how deals like that work at this level of film, so I'm genuinely curious. Because if it's true they already got their cut of the pie, then I'm much more amenable to...