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I'm missing the option: "Depends on the story/design..." There are all kinds of fantasy sci-fi settings I like, for all kinds of reasons. From the Expanse to Farscape, from Renegade Legion to Warhammer 40k, from Honor Harrington to Altered Carbon. Sometimes I love the starship designs...

Maybe Draw Steel is not generic, but it sure as heck does look that way... In the same way as D&D4e was mathematically brilliant, but it's presentation didn't match it brilliance (hence we never adopted it).

Yeah, the conversion charts are just an absolute pain! A reason why not to play a game. You could do something with stickers, or maybe even some custom dice made via Etsy or something (but very expensive and thus another hurdle). For me it totally turned me off on WFRP3e and the FFG Star Wars...

Honestly, I suspect the same to happen to those two as what's happening with the Cosmere RPG, just a fan cult following buying the product, something they will likely never play or not all that often. Something similarly happened to all the D&D alternatives that spawned from the OGL shenanigans...

I dislike the FFG type of custom dice for RPGs as you're totally dependent on that company for those dice, especially annoying when you try to run games a while after they stopped supporting that game...

1st level characters killing Brainpuppies!

Immersion. 3D dice rolling for me is a necessity for a VTT, as just random number showing up totally disconnects me from the pnp RPG experience we're trying to recreate online. 3D dice tend to be very low impact on the computer hardware, 3D minis tend to be very high impact on the computer...

While normally that would be an automatic buy, but with the recent Spelljammer, Planescape, and Dragonlance implementations, I'm not convinced it would be something I would enjoy. What I would buy: Monster Manual 2 Epic Levels

It's WotC after all... And another reason why I'm not buying this, no more room in my book case and space in there is precious! The videos of Exodus the computer game were interesting, the announcement of a TTRPG was one of those red flags. This release so far ahead of the computer game is...

I agree, a difference of opinion isn't trolling. But that's not what you're doing, you're playing bait and switch. Showing a small RPG made via ChatRPG is interesting enough, but then you start preaching, throwing a molotof through the AI window. Then I go looking and see your account was made...

Not everything needs to be my creation. As I indicated, neither was the used adventure, Dungeon of the Mad Mage. Nor were the rules that is D&D and we use. Think of it like this: When I walk out on the street, doe the pavers I walk on need to be handcrafted by myself? Does the bread I eat each...

And now you're just trolling! 🧌 AI/LLM can do certain things, other things it absolutely sucks at, and there is no way of really improving that due to how the whole LLM thing actually works. 63 years ago the Jetsons predicted we would have flying cars, but they didn't predict the smartphone...

True that it's going to impact the math hard! But even before the tariffs you saw a bit of an implosion on boardgame KS projects. Mythic Games was just one of the companies that started to drown, three years ago they started to fumble with the Darkest Dungeon KS and recently CMON had to start...

Devastate does not mean destroy. Also keep in mind that these tariff shenanigans are US only, the rest of the world is still perfectly willing to trade with each other. And while the US might be a large part of the English pnp RPG industry, it's certainly not all of it. Free League for example...

Hey. This is how we did it pre-Internet. I would ask colleagues of my father to bring back specific Warhammer stuff from the UK which we couldn't get here or only at insane prices. I still remember going to the UK on a school trip (from the Netherlands) in the mid 90s, doing some serious game...

Let me start by saying that the negative comments with little more argument then "But it's made by humans, thus better!" argument is going to drive more people into the arms of AI/LLM generated content. AI/LLM are tools, tools used by humans. Those humans decide how to use the tools, and what...

Looking at the last two articles, someone's hungry! ;)

It's a forever arms race. Those laser might be thwarted by deploying reflective clouds of particles that either fully reflect (possibly using the laser/energy against the craft that's firing it) or diffuse it enough to be essentially harmless. Or missiles with reflective heads of ablative heads...

I absolutely think that depending on the situation, a rotary cannon atop an armored flying tub ranges from cheaper to far, far cheaper. Imagine an Iraqi tank column moving up. Are you going to use a guided missile for each an every tank in that convoy? Do you even have enough guide...

People dismissing Cosmere as "IP fans just bought it with no intention of ever playing it!" let me ask you the question: How many books or pdfs do you have of RPGs you've never played? What about once a decade or two ago? Us pnp RPG folks are historically famous for this! ;) Let me start by...