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5E and fate both include skills, where you roll dice and add a modifier to get a result. Does that mean that fate and 5e are similar games, or do they just look kind of the same superficially? Blades in the dark and Fate both have Stress, a resource which fills up instead of taking actual...

They just did a "second pass" on IS - no functional changes to the text, just in the physical presentation and production cost. I think they're happy with where IS's system is at.

There have announced that there is currently no plans to update the Numenera system.

They've revealed these. Damage is dealt as "wounds" of various levels of severity, rather than draining pool points. Wound capacity and healing rate can vary based on genre to make the game more or less gritty. When defending, players can choose to use speed to dodge or might to parry. I...

Numenera has had 38 supplements and 20 adventure products, including two full adventure paths Cypher has had 46 supplements and 21 adventure products, not counting Old Gods, Magnus Archives, or Tidal blades corebooks, or anything by a 3pp. That's a lot of content! What other products do you...

MCG has made a bunch of books for 5e d&d.

Unlike TSR dnd, kelsey specifically designed Shadowdark to work better for smaller parties. Notably - the game lacks rules for hirelings/retainers, overland mercenaries, and lacks the extremely high "number appearing" stat on its monsters. You shouldn't need more than 1 pc per player unless...

Yes, it's a lot of fun.

If SD is a niche, its a pretty big one, considering the kickstarter numbers and the con game numbers it has. It's not going to appeal to everyone (no game will), but it clearly appeals to a lot of people.

I imagine a lot of people who say "we didnt play that way!" tended to do the latter.

There is ample guidance in the shadowdark rulebook to explain the playstyle in the GMing chapter.

Table Variance is a feature of OSR games. There aren't rules to "protect" players from bad referees - a referee must play fair. Correct, much of the game is left undefined so that players and GMs will rely on logic and creativity rather than interacting with mechanics. The gaps in the rules...

1) Magic is supposed to be unreliable. 2) Your characters are supposed to be average or even a bit weak. You're supposed to feel outmatched compared to monsters. You're not a Hero. 3) Shadowdark has rules for everyone moving together - initiative should be used when exploring/interacting with...

I dont mind it being on Beyond - but its literally sorted directly with the 1st party stuff, sandwiched between the Bigby and Eberron books in the list. Its confusing to casual players to differentiate. I've had players show up with random crap because "It's on DNDbeyond" in the past, and the...

I really hate that they're freely intermixing random 3pp stuff in with official sources on dndbeyond. It was bad enough when it was just the Blood Hunter.

I haven't run shadowdark in a campaign, but I have run OSE, which is even more lethal than SD. I've run two campaigns of about (12-15) 2.5 hour sessions each. I've had one character death in each campaign. I have replacement characters come in at ~1 level below their previous character, which...