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I played around with this before, thread was lost in the crash apparently. I settled on 2d10 as well, it kept a lot of the same feel in terms of numbers and the dice still having a meaningful role and overall worked pretty well. It actually opened up some design space for interesting things...

Now I'm one of those posters who doesn't read the thread and repeats the same thing that's been said umpteen times already as if it hadn't been mentioned :blush: I have a habit of opening a bunch of tabs and then not refreshing before I post.

Since this thread is all over the place anyways I will just point out that the "singular they" works very well, and I often find it a positive to have conversations without knowing genders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

Assuming that the quality is good I am happy with these on several levels. It's a completely optional way for Wotc to make money off (and for fans to support) D&D that doesn't detract from anyone's experience. Things like these can reduce the need to rely on other products or subscriptions that...

Personally I just don't like that power at all as it was presented and I don't see why I would run it that way. It isn't a big deal for encounter design really, and I don't see it as too much of an advantage, but I don't see it adding much to the game either. It just isn't worth the hassle IMO.

First off anybody that holds an opinion that an entire group of people are all "morons" has issues, that's simply a irrational position. Secondly you seem to know very little about game design if you think "trying to get anything right" in a ttrpg correlates with it's implementation of real...

Really? You join a forum to resurrect a 14 year old thread to take an attack against an entire group of people based on nothing...

Yeah, the license was announced on July 28 2016 AFAICT, but without knowing that it would be hard to guess on those graphs. Certainly an uptick but one among several and not really changing the overall trend.

My point re; Critical Role was that they decided to switch to 5e for the show. The rest was regarding Live play in general, but many of the things I mention apply to Critical Role as well. There is less jargon and talking about mechanics in general, the lack of reliance on minis compared to a...

Yes, but it's also the fact that they managed to make a very solid game for media like podcasts, streaming, and youtube, etc. Critical Role was playing Pathfinder but switched to 5e for the streaming, they weren't playing 4e. I observed a fair bit of 4e podcasts and such (I still love Critical...

Thanks for the Shadowrun suggestions, I got that elsewhere as well. The game itself has never really interested me but on this topic it certainly seems worth a look. The problems with this type of game interest me as well.

Did it though? I have heard that said but I don't really see it in the numbers. I am sure it got a boost but the trajectory seems largely unchanged, would be interesting to see it graphed out.

Yeah, GURPS is just tough to compare due to it's nature I suppose.

For the purpose of this question I suppose I am disregarding that asymmetry. I mean it very obviously exists but it isn't what I'm looking for. To bring it back to board games, many "asymmetrical" games utilize the same GM/Overlord-Player divide ie; Descent, but it's a very different thing than...

GURPS is a tough one for me to think about probably mostly because I never really looked at it as a unified game (for a variety of unimportant reasons) and the variable power levels doesn't help. Would you (or anyone familiar with the system) say that a typical game would approach the 5e lvls of...

Hmm, I don't remember all that much about WoD and know little about the newer versions. Are the games particularly asymmetrical outside of a "crossover"?

Ack! Even with that long a post I didn't mention that important thing, I mean non-D&D based games. :-S I would certainly agree about previous editions of D&D, but I am somewhat familiar with all of them and most OSR and d-20 based games.

So first off let me explain what I mean by "Asymmetry". I am not saying this is the correct definition and if anyone knows better terms to describe what I am referring to I would appreciate the ideas, but it's the best fitting commonly used term I know. The particular "Asymmetry" I am...

Couldn't find an old thread to resurrect so I guess I am starting a new one just to point out to anyone who cares that David Harbour who plays the sheriff on Stranger Things is a pretty big D&D fan. I really don't care about these sorts of things, yet somehow finding this out made me happy, so I...

I certainly agree that the strategy is very different than previous Wotc editions, and they have stuck to their guns more than I would have expected. The lure of pumping out more content is always there though, and as time goes by the chances of succumbing increase. The biggest thing (or at...