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It's not a bad idea... imagine having a core system. And you can go on a website and either through a questionnaire or a wizard check certain options to include modules depending on the type of experience you want, and you get a PDF with the mechanics and systems you chose at the end. It's no...

The actual perfect RPG is when you put all these heartbreakers together as modules to make one RPG to bring them all.

I'll hijack the thread for a moment. I've been thinking of buying something Dark Sun related for a while. I know there's some 2E stuff, 3E stuff from 3rd parties and some 4E stuff. Which Dark Sun material would you recommend?

Maybe the situation with the OGL also pushed some creators to make some changes to their product, licensing or schedules?

There's a lot of small things I would fix. Balancing fell off a bit at higher levels, the maths were off. Many Daily Powers were very powerful and were either you do something awesome or you miss completely, I would add degrees of success (which many other powers had). I would incorporate some...

I'm not gonna sign it. I agree with some of the points, notably making sure Hasbro doesn't profit from distributing a troublesome product like that. However, for reasons others have already mentioned I think it is important to keep the product available and in its current form. It's part of...

Does the promise/premise of a game and its content (rules) not fulfilling it can count as cognitive dissonance? I bought the Symbaroum books a while ago and read them from cover to cover. For anyone that knows Symbaroum, the premise is a massive forest called Davokar in which you mount...

Burning Wheel is leveless.

Oh man, I'm not sure I want to type this list. The pandemic was a tough time for me. When it comes to RPGs, I fell in a bit of a buying frenzy to feel better, and because reading them was my replacement for playing them. My list is mostly games I already owned and can't wait to get to...

It's not something I've really experienced before. Most of my experience is with 3e, 4e and 5e which aimed at balanced encounters. I like that approach, to aim for a challenging fight that the players know they can succeed at. But I also see the merit in the unbalanced approach, I've been...

One Shot in the Dark - Tale of the Manticore | DriveThruRPG.com

I believe that many individuals at WotC probably warned others that this was a bad idea. I'm sure many felt the same way we did. I even believe that some individuals may now have realized how they were on a bad path and might have changed their minds. In the interview, Kyle seemed mostly...

No, they had intentions of releasing an absurdly restrictive license that we even saw drafts of it. Their 180 is 100% due to their customer base before mad. You can't really argue that they had the intentions from the start to be the good guys and release the SRD under CC, it just wasn't the...

And WotC profited from that ecosystem at least as much as the ecosystem did their product. It's mutualism. Sorry but no. They did not try to reel back some of their rights, the draft that was leaked had some absolutely outrageous clauses by almost any measure. I mentioned it in another thread -...

They never had the intention to do so. They did so after threatening a whole ecosystem and hobby leading into tens of thousands of people yelling at them. If people hadn't yelled, things would be very different. The leadership of twenty years is not the leadership of now. Same branding...

Matt has shown that he appreciates the qualities of 4E. Hard to say how much MCDM's game will pull from it, but color me interested.

There's a few of us apparently. I just dived back in my Conan anthology a few days ago. I'm reading the short stories in one of the many proposed chronological order.

But moving on can be very healthy.

I'm not getting back on board with them. They broke the trust. This fight was not to save them, it was to save the ecosystem. I'll stick around with the 3rd party creators, retroclones, endless zines and microrpgs and let the big corporation sell movies, mugs, shirts and garbage plastic...

The craziest odds I've seen are last year. I don't exactly remember the context, but three rolls in a row (few seconds apart, from three different players) landed on 20. It was a dramatically important moment. I was hopping around and losing my naughty word. "What are the odds!"