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I'm sure Larian can make a great Larian game. That doesn't mean I find it a good BG game. If I want to read funny and extremely empathic Discworld fantasy I don't buy a GRR Martin book.

Will I get this game down the line? Probably, if it ever get a full release, just because I love this video game genre. But I really don't get Larian. As we've seen in other games, 5e is a straightforward system with mechanics that can translate well to video game format. So with the BG...

My table play via Foundry, but I still try to keep stuff relatively simple. Too much flash and video gameyness distract the players, and sucks valuable prep time for me as GM. So no, I don't want or need a 3D vtt. But sure, if and when there's a low-cost, low-system req, easy to prep 3D VTT...

As a GM, I usually prep my campaigns with a Chekov's gun and loose thoughts about when it could be fired. But there's also guns - prepped or improvised - that belong to other folks. And the partys actions, whims and wants decide which ones will get fired and the overall impact of the shot.

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I did end 5e with our 2-year campaign finale a couple of weeks ago. The premisses of One D&D is pretty meh to me and my table, and the calendar for the coming years is filled with Savage Worlds/Savage Pathfinder, Traveller and CoC. One never knows, but my guess is that our group will pass all...

Fun is fun however you come by it. But I use myself for those random story elements. I'm definitely not mathematically exact in my randomness if that is what one look for, but like to think I can create more interesting options on the spot from unlimited situational inputs than a static table.

I hate random tables during play. For me, it takes away a lot of the fun of being a GM, as I love to improvise and riff of my players actions and choices in-game. And my players are very good at building suboptimal characters on their own, focusing on roleplaying and interesting concepts, rather...

I would love it if WotC had novels they would try to sell :)

Two of my players are lore nerds. No matter what system we play, they crave their lore fix. So I give it to them shrug.

I agree that a lot of the messages are more relevant than ever. But sadly you are probably right, the og cyberpunk is a passé genre to investors and a younger audience. But I still want it, darnit, even if I reluctantly accept that Johnny Mnemonic is the best we will get from older Gibson material.

I got two: William Gibsons Neuromancer trilogy Peter F Hamiltons Nights Dawn trilogy Then the screen can go black for all I care.

I don't motivate it. NPC's and monsters get the abilities I think will bring appropriate challenge and the most fun to the table.

In my recently finished two-year campaign Orcus and Ilsensine cooperated, and toward the finale I sent 400.000ish undead illithids and various normal undead from Thay moving like a grasshopper swarm toward the west, mowing down all resistance. But that was just for threat illustration and to put...

This isn't really a problem since I have a permanent table of players, and I present campaigns that both they and I find interesting, and if not we talk about modifikations to make the campaign. But there are almost always character restrictions in play, that's kind of a given, no matter what...

A full blown 6E - by that I mean that I think the ambitions to have full compatibility with "old" 5E is pretty silly. Besides the mechanical changes WotC has been clear both in action and words that they want to change the value connotations of the game - see for example race vs heritage and...

Neither do I, I'm just drawing what WotC has done during the last few years to a logical - well, almost logical conclusion. But my point is I very much hope they don't try to satisfy everyone. The current DMG is a half-measure with not enough of anything while still trying to flirt a bit - but...

Since WotC's target market segment is new young players, I hope they actually make a DMG about roleplaying from scratch, alluding to card games, anime etc that the target consumers probably are familiar with. Alignment is already thrown out, and the next logical step should be to remove the...

There's a pretty hefty amount of art sociology academia regarding the purpose, aim and results of design that points to the contrary. But as always for the forum peace, let's just agree to disagree.

Optimizing products to be as commercially attractive as possible, ie design, comes a few steps before marketing.