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For fiction, I've often heard of the bottom-up also called pantsing. As in, "By the seat of my pants." I imagine some genre authors do a bit of both. World building as top-down and then the plot is pants, or visa versa.

The update now has its own EN World article. https://www.enworld.org/threads/psion-receives-updates-in-new-unearthed-arcana.715563/

I’d also nominate Savage Worlds which has detailed vehicular combat rules to include a turning template.

In Dragonbane, poor sleep is NOT a minor inconvenience. It haunts you until you get some rest.

Watched the unboxing. LOL! Honestly, I like the stat block better than in 5e proper. It's been one of my long standing pet peeves through various editions the challenge rating is buried in the middle. As a GM, I want to see it big and bold so I can make a snap decision as I'm flipping through...

According to some friends of mine who still play AD&D and Battletech, not memorizing dozens of charts is for losers. :ROFLMAO: P.S. Some people get offended if their system mastery is undermined.

Nothing was better than the Hackmaster GM screen. The picture on the front even changed as you flipped more panels to the GM side!

Oh, definitely. And as a reader of 1970/1980s genre mash up fiction, I get the "Well, Middle Age folks would call an alien a demon," vibe. It's just in my head, either commit to the bit or don't. DB pretty much writes up their demons as just demons. Even in Forbidden Lands, the obviously psychic...

The challenge for Hot Springs is for a system agnostic setting, it really goes deep for a whole hierarchy/civilization of elementals. From floating spheres of leadership to mud/steam imps made of mixed elements, only D&D/adjacent has that much elemental variety due to needing monsters and their...

Now that I remember, it also probably doesn't hurt to have Ben write for your game as well, as he did a Forbidden Lands adventure. Hexenwald in The Spire of Quetzel. That is cool and I assume it's because the Nordic Skalds feel DB's OSR vibe as well. I really want to take DB for a spin in a...

He's even covered the play-doh wargame. So while he has a focus, he's also shown things he thinks are super cool but less adjacent. He'll probably get to it one day - and getting a free copy probably wouldn't hurt. :ROFLMAO:

I've also been hoping Ben Milton of Questing Beast would cover Dragonbane. He must know about it by now? Then again, I've heard him say in a few reviews that he got the product gratis. So maybe that's part of his criteria.

The Old Ways Podcast just had a fantasy stream with Sean from MCG running the game using the new rules. There will now be a approximately 25 to 30 Types broken down by genre and even subgenres (High fantasy vs Sword and Sorcery.) It's designed so players can pick a PC quickly if need be.

Loved the spotlight. He should do a DB campaign.

MCG Cypher crowdfunded projects regularly hit between $300k to $700k. https://www.backerkit.com/c/users/2072972/created_projects

For me, with Dragonbane being more low level fantasy and having BRP/RQ/Pendragon style mechanics, I feel that I can steal from both the OSR and BRP/RQ material. For off the cuff conversions, OSR to DB, an orc is an orc and for RQ, a creature can be converted into NPCs by dividing skills by...

Agreed!

That is a trickier question as the Journey rules add playtime before you even get to a location. You often create an additional mini-encounters from the Journeys before you even get to the actual adventure. I ran two weekly campaigns, one was 2 hour sessions which lasted a year and a 4 hours...