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I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here or how it relates to your claim that Darrington Press are competing with themselves beyond trying to move the goalposts.

For sure, but that's more true when they're offering differing experiences. Any of the 40k RPGs are offering different experiences to the Fantasy/AoS ones; Imperium Maledictum differs from Wrath & Glory; WFRP differs from Soulbound. But then you get to Old World, and is it really offering a...

Unfortunately, this isn't limited to gamers or writing. There is a staggering number of people who are seemingly incapable of separating an idea from its execution.

I must admit I haven't kept up with D4 - I tried the beta weekend and decided it wasn't for me due to the forced multiplayer combined with the level scaling (who on Sanctuary thought level scaling was a good idea for an aRPG?!) - but Lilith was the thing I found most compelling (I'm a sucker for...

Yeah, this is an odd take. Most people who play RPGs outside of D&D are more willing to play a variety of RPGs, especially when they're offering different experiences. Candela Obscura and Daggerheart are very different systems with different premises - that's not competing with oneself; that's...

One thing I'd add to this list is Blue Eye Samurai (2023). Actually, as bad as a sequel it is to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, I think Sword of Destiny is good inspiration for wuxia-inspired RPGs.

Yeah. When I think of Diablo (and alikes), I think blasting through scores of enemies, and Soulbound does just that.

I know he's a busy bee these days, but I'm a little surprised Matt Mercer wasn't tapped to write one given how much of a fan he is, and Blizzard already sponsored Critical Role for a Diablo oneshot. This is a genuinely surprising design team for a TTRPG based on an aRPG built around combat and...

Anthropomorphic koi people kinda weird me out, but these pieces are gorgeous. Who's the artist?

I'd say the martial hero in wuxia is more of a fighter than a paladin. While the protagonist often is a goodly sort in a black-and-white world, there's no paladin style oath. Some heroes become villains, some villains become heroes, but it's not typically the fall to the dark side or subsequent...

At this point, I'd consider that less than the bare minimum. I would expect creators with cultural ties to be hired to add authenticity and respect to the cultures being used as influence. The samurai subclass sort of touches on this, no?

Considering the complaints during Campaign 3 about the how long the split was, and viewers missing the other half of the main cast, this is somewhat risky. It may be lessened by being that way from the start and Robbie Daymond was a well-received new member, so not guaranteed, but with a change...

The trailer is clearly a spoof of the Elder Scrolls VI teaser, so obviously they're not using D&D or Daggerheart, but rather an unannounced Elder Scrolls RPG!

So it was. I could have sworn it was presented as rumour before RftLW. I was certainly treating it as such earlier than 5e, and I'm sure I got it from an official source rather than coming up with the idea independently.

For Eberron, it was an in-universe rumour/hypothesis that shifters were the results of having a lycanthrope in their ancestry, but never explicitly fact. This rumour was made explicitly true for the Forgotten Realms versions of shifters when they were back-ported into that setting. The same was...

So, it's not so much that it's a slur, but inaccurate (and potentially inappropriate). In an anthropological context, "Creole" typically refers to ethnic groups which have formed due to one group suffering mass displacement as a result of colonialism, combining with another group and creating a...

"Creole" means different things to different people, and plenty of multi-ethnic people don't identify as Creole.

Except the various races have been used as representative of real world human groups, especially by racists, so if one accepts that racial stats should be removed because of said associations (as WotC clearly do), then one also has to accept that the removal of half-races is tantamount to...

Hexcrawls are typically about exploration and as you can see from that map, most of Khorvaire has been explored, settled and documented. For Eberron, the obvious place for a hexcrawl is Xen'drik, but if I was to do one in Khorvaire, I'd probably start with a premise like House Sivis or Morgrave...