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Slightly? I’d dispute that. There are thousands of rules light games released every year… and maybe a handful of heavy games. Just look at marketplaces like itch.io. The market is very, very heavily in favour of rules light games, for many of the reasons—both from the publishing and the customer...

Every image on this thread looks like this:

I use comparisons a lot. You approach the house--think Wayne Manor. Everybody will imagine it slightly differently, but that's OK. That happens with novels, too. The small details don't really matter; they'll fill in the carpets and flowers and paintings themselves. You just have to mention...

Morrus. ;) Thanks, Paul! So, it's basically just you? I don't envy you--it sounds like a ton of work! :)

According to their website, it was a single donor, and the bulk of that donation was returned in 2022 after various setbacks. https://www.gygaxmemorialfund.org/news-project/2025/9/24/the-adventure-begins-kickstarter-to-begin-on-october-1st-2025

I thought that's what I said. Thanks for the pep talk, but don't worry. It's my full time job. I have a salary. :)

Having published both light and crunchy games, I’d also venture that rules heavy games are difficult to make (in terms of effort, not cleverness). I’ve personally written and published multiple light and heavy games, and the latter are very challenging. The light games I’ve produced were much...

I’m not too clear who is running the campaign. I know Gail Gygax was involved with founding it, presumably 15 years ago, and @Paul J. Stormberg wrote the adventure and posted about the campaign here—Paul can you shed some light on who’s involved?

Weapons breaking every 20 swings is pretty harsh.

Those are your words, not theirs. The implication is actually that you think that people who prefer something different to you are stupid. Knock it off, please.

Gary Gygax, one of the co-creators of Dungeons & Dragons, passed away in 2008. His widow, Gail Gygax, has worked to have a memorial or statue built in his memory in their hometown of Lake Geneva, USA. Set in Library Park, in a spot that Gygax himself chose, the memorial will be a stone table...

Hawley wanted to tell his own story. He says only Alien and Aliens, plus Romulus, are canon in his mind.

The beauty is you don’t have to. You will always be allowed to play whichever game you want.

Of course, some will. And some won’t. I suspect that’s why he used the word “schism”.

Sure. I was commenting that rules heavy game development is resource intensive but yes, people clearly write other types of material too.

A rules-heavy game requires a lot of work, development, and playtesting—which often translate into resources and money. They’re also typically bigger in terms of page count, necessitating more art, more writing, more editing, more layout. Crunchy games are resource intensive to produce—and...

Huh? Prodigy is the main protagonist in Alien: Earth.