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I see Daggerheart as a light system, compared to what I grew up with in the 80s. Big Eyes Small Mouth was considered a rules light system when it came out in the mid 90s and is more complicated than Daggerheart. But… While Drawsteel is new, so is Legend in the Mist. So to me it seems like...

Foundry is really not that complicated to set up. But beyond that the UI is usually just nicer. I say usually because in v13 they made the decision to put a huge pile of UI changes into the base system rather than leave such things to modders, and it's been a bit of chaos. Some of those changes...

The folks I game with that dislike self-hosting mostly expressed that they dislike it from the hoster's POV - letting someone else connect to their machines. I prefer it myself for the power of being able to control all my assets more easily, quickly, and without concern for file sizes / upload...

I'm in the self-hosted camp. I'm a player in a game right now where another player expressed the feeling of not liking connecting to a self-hosted system. Feeling weird connecting to someone else's machine. I'd not considered that view before but it makes me realize the best VTT needs to offer...

If they’re stuck on tactical yet you’re burned out on PF2E that reads like an impass. Any other tactical system isn’t going to reset burnout. If you can sway them to a hybrid Daggerheart is both tactical and narrative but still if they play it like they’re still in the same style as before...

Knights of Last Call doing a 6 hour review of Legend in the Mist:

Yeah. If a book isn't selling, people might avoid being the one to jump in and buy it if they're worried about the ability to find a table to play at. It doesn't take much for a game to just vanish from playability. You need active discussion, you need good resources for people to find GMs and...

They had an AMA event yesterday in their discord and I was sitting there waiting for it, then got distracted and forgot, and when I looked it had been over for a few hours. Still, pretty much everyone but me got their questions answered. I didn't have any specific questions so I guess that's...

Also a how to play video series:

They've put out a free 'convert from D&D' guide: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/537424/legend-in-the-mist-5e-crossover-tool

I always found the whole Incel claim that blames women for 'blocking them' or claims they aren't attractive to women to be patently absurd. Granted when I was a young guy I was a bit of a looker and most of my high school friends were female (took me a few years into adulthood for some of them...

Nah... If they do a starter set and if I got a vote it'd come as a deck of cards packed in a coffee mug so you could fit dice around the cards inside the mug. ;)

When I played a Thaum I'd skip exploit on some minions just to have an extra action. Not often, but now and then when actions were precious to me like needing to get to a location or something. Otherwise yes - most of the time you're just repeating the same rotations and the fact that PF2E has...

Yeah. I lived through 80s pop music so I most certainly agree with this. But that perspective adds a point to - to find a 'hit that's good' you need hindsight. Folks who think of all the cool music of the 80s these days are remembering the good hits. Not all the junk that was the vast majority...

There's a couple of games that do this. My current favorite is the newer Otherscape. Cyberpunk genre as a general topic: My favorites have always been the stories that are not about the future internet nor cybernetics. But about larger society or otherwise deeper topics.

When the alignment system came about the games were just moving from wargame to roleplaying game and what that meant was still a little fuzzy. Alignment makes sense when you think of the characters as 'units' in a simulation. These guys are the Mayans, those guys are the Aztecs, those guys are...

Something I keep looking for and not seeing in tRPGs is Undead as seen from some MesoAmerican, Latin American, and Indigenous sources. Most of these might still be horror, but there’s curious space for some creative lore here - maybe that skeleton hanging out with the kids is an ancestor...

What can be fascinating is to look at actors who played "that dude is seriously old" characters in past decades and realize they were often in their 30s or 40s. At the time I often look at people my age and they can look really old. Yet my friends who are my age don't look so old. And I wonder...