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Personally, the only person I'm interested listening to talk about Eberron is its creator, which is why I'd recommend Manifest Zone, an Eberron podcast featuring Keith Baker.

Is steam-powered technology commonplace? No? It's not steampunk. Even Eberron - a setting that is actually in the process of industrial revolution - is not steampunk.

Just to add to this, since it seems to be forgotten: CR was originally part of Geek & Sundry and technically owned by them, and when G&S got bought by Legendary, Legendary gained ownership of CR. The CR folks were quick to set up Critical Role Productions, LLC after that and were able to...

Instead of some random youtuber talking out of their arse, we could take Brennan and Matt at their word:

It's a little outdated being from 2017, but you might want to look at this. I can also add that a few friends of mine looked into starting their own game store, and were basically told: Warhammer sells, Magic: the Gathering and Pokémon sell, barely anything else does. Individual board games...

It sounds like you're envisioning them as something akin to the talent trees in Classic World of Warcraft: As opposed to something like what's seen in Edge of the Empire: Would that be accurate?

I think there's 2, perhaps 3, elements at play here. 1. "Sacred cows": There are some elements that must stay to still feel like D&D, which limits what can be changed. 2. "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses" - not Henry Ford. Actual innovation is hard to...

I could see something like a cross between 5e's feats, 3e's feats and Savage Worlds' edges. So, using 5e as a base of comparison, instead of Class feature @ X level Subclass feature @ Y level ASI/Feat @ Z level you could have Combat feat @ X level Exploration feat @ Y level Social feat @ Z level...

5e2014 is my favourite version of D&D to date, but I share a few of the already stated desires. If WotC are going to continue insisting there are three pillars of play, then I'd like to see the exploration and social pillars get a similar level of mechanical support to combat. One of my...

I think you'd be surprised. 5e has seen a surprising number of people get invested in D&D as a lifestyle brand. Obviously, dedicated gamers like the sort who frequent online communities like ENWorld will continue with their preferred iteration, but a good chunk would move on to other things.

Paizo benefits from D&D for exact reason Steve Jackson laid out with GURPS. That's true for the smaller games as well. There is simply a percentage of players who move on from their first game, look at others and get invested in RPGs as a hobby - the larger the hobby, the more that is as a flat...

This line has always been laughable to me. The 5e starter set had been out a year by the time the first episode of CR aired, and the PHB 7 months. 5e had already reclaimed it dominance, and was going from strength to strength. CR's initial success was due to established 5e players tuning in...

This is the case according to actual RPG developers. In addition to Steve Jackson's comment that @Staffan pointed out, a few years ago, one the of the Paizo devs commented on a reddit post about how 5e's massive success was a case of rising tides lift all ships. They stated that even though...

Literally, at no point, did I assert or even imply that. It seems you may have conflated what I said with regards to "selling out arenas" (as in filling to capacity) with "selling out" (compromising authenticity for personal gain).

C2 saw a significant increase in viewers due to Covid lockdowns, so when those were lifted, they naturally dropped as people no longer had the free time to dedicate. C3 saw viewership continuously fall off due a variety of stated reasons: players meandering and being non-committal to any action...

There are certainly people like that, but there is also a substantially different vibe between sitting in the nosebleed seats of a sold out 100k capacity stadium compared to being stood in front of the stage at your local basement club, and it's perfectly valid for a person to prefer one feeling...

Indeed. BLeeM mentioned that Perkins and Crawford would be working on Aramán (the new world), and noted particularly about running homebrew mechanics by Crawford. Presumably both, but especially Perkins, would be helping with worldbuilding.

I'm sure there will be a moment of adjustment, but I don't think this should be much of a concern. Luis Carazo: We've seen how he interacts with most of the original group in ExU: Calamity, and in the fireside chat, Matt mentioned that Luis was a player in the home game he ran before the one...

Since the system has been confirmed, the D&D vs Daggerheart debate is redundant (and it was already worn out) so, in a bid to move beyond it, I thought I'd engage in a different form speculation on campaign 4, based on the information revealed in the announcement. The cast has been expanded...