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Why would you want to eliminate Lovecraft but not Howard?

Solo, Indy, Deckard, Ryan

Huh. If you had asked me, I would have guessed that WoW had player houses long ago.

So it looks like the hoped-for assignment is a "right now" kind of situation. I guess it is a positive to have the decision taken out of my hands? ETA for clarity: it means I cannot take the job since I have this other one I must finish.

That is a good point. I had not thought of that.

As I prep for my aetherpunk superhero convention game, I am thinking about setting/house rules. After listening the the recernt Dungeon Master of None "GMing Daggerheart" podcast, I am considering a rule that lets a player who is completely out of Hope to gain one Hope in exchange for giving me...

You seem to be suggesting that "we" don't also do those other things. "We" do, and therefore "we" can tell the difference.

How can they be millenials? They own a house.

Count me among those that believe that while all "social hobbies" are likely good, TTRPGs are special because they ask is to share our fantasies with one another. As such, they are inherently more intimate than bowling or cribbage. That, of course, has a potentially problematic side, too...

My completely unscientific thought is that sometimes the huge KSers see very little "tail." All the potential customers backed it, and there aren't many people left to buy it.

Out of curiosity, are you still working in the industry?

What I am wondering (and it is possible no one really knows, because it isn't knowable) is if there is a reliable relationship between how well a KS does and how that product does afterwards once introduced into the retail market. Just for example: Avatar did about 10x that Shadowdark did in...

No. I was asking you, because you seem to think there is a known connection. I have no idea what the connection is, if it exists at all.

I asked the developer for a couple weeks to decide while I finish up (hopefully) another project. I'm torn, to say the least. Part of me is just yelling at myself to stop being such a wuss, and other helpful GenX self talk.

Nothing like kind of deciding you are done freelancing only to finally get that project offer you have wanted.

What is the relationship between Kickstarter performance and retail success in the TTRPG market?

Development takes time. The first setting or rules supplement will really be the test of where the game sits in the market. This appears to be an experiment to see how viable a proct like this is. It's a smart move.

I expect this to be the tact going forward with full campaign settings: any given campaign setting will have multiple campaign frames using that setting. For example, the Eberron one would (theoretically) have frames built around Sharn Inquisitives, Mournland scavengers, and Xendric explorers.

I agree that for shadow dark, ammo scarcity and cost is a big deal. Also, the importance of keeping an open flame around all the time could be a problem. "If a 1 is rolled to reload while a lit torch is within 10 feet, all characters within 20 feet take 2x the weapon damage. Furthermore, the...

While at the Dublinia in Dublin, Ireland, I learned that "Beyond the pale" as an idiom is based on Anglo-Irish history where "the Pale" was the limits of the English controlled areas. Beyond it were the free Irish, who refused control of the Crown. It was therefore considered a wild and...