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Look, if it isn't a D&D killer, it is hardly worth doing at all.

It's pretty clear CO did not set the world on fire, but that should not be the bar.

I am pretty sure the adventure book was not by Darrington.

I am waffling. It kind of depends on how much time I have. But I also love random elements.

Just bumping this.

It isn't that. it is that people think, for soem reason, that they are supposed to like D&D because it is D&D, and when they don't, they don't know who to process that. When you are talking about good games that are lesser known or played, no one feels compelled to liek them. if you don't, you...

I think it is worth differentiating between actual "low prep" and moving prep around. Mostly, this is frontloading it: developing the setting and the factions and the NPCs and the locations so that during play, most of the responses are improvisational. But that isn't necessarily "low prep" if...

As usual with OSR style play,I think the answer is "it depends." I would allow an attempt at Disadvantage if the target was being noisy and/or in an obvious location regardless of sight. But if it would be impossible for the player to tell where the target might be precisely, then no chance of...

Then there is no argument to be made. Time travel can be anything. It's pure fantasy. It only has value as philosophical discussions about what to do with it.

Musing on convention game options: So I am wtill thinking about running "Power Lunch" the corporate portal fantasy thing, but I am also considering a convention West marches thing. I am thinking of bring a big, almost blank Hex map and let the players for every session explore however they want...

Everything we know about how time travel might possibly work requires huge amounts of energy at the very least. That is a thing that is true. If we assume a fantastical easy time travel, then sure. But then no amount of any discussion means anything, because time travel and paradox can work...

Yeah, if only the core set had had a pre-order system in place.

I wonder how long pre-orders will be open. Or, rather, how much time before release pre-orders will close.

Yeah, I had forgotten about that. Mostly I was trying to report the stuff they talked about onstage.

Certainly different games lend themselves better to low-prep campaigns than others. Shadowdark, for example, works really well. It is full of interesting tables that keep the game fresh and produce results that can build out the world as you go. Plus the statblocks are simple and the rules are...

Seems like Matt might have had some GM burnout.

I don't have time to watch the live play, but I will check back and see what the final suprise announcement was.

They reiterated that Hope and Fear is not either the C&P setting or adventure, or Baker's book.

Castle High: boarding school in the sky, kids mysteries, stickerpunk. They are going to play this live.

Dark Hearts of Andaloria: van Helsing monster hunting, inspired by Spain locations, adversaries turn you into vampires, werewolves etc