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For me it's a matter of motivation. Having a specie, culture or group that are very warlike and declare war on others for no reason except to be warlike is kinda boring. It can only become interesting through a very clear goal, preferably in opposition to the players. For example, having a...

Hi! I'm going to attempt to use your collective knowledge. I've slowly been coalescing ideas over the path few months for an RPG I'd like to design. I think that I'm mostly interested to making something that supports and encourages a warband scope. It would support the traditional four or...

You just made me order it. Nostalgia is strong.

The OSR is dominated by games derived from D&D B/X. The biggest name is Old-School Essentials which rules are 99% identical to B/X, just repackaged, clarified and reorganized. It's a solid vanilla starting point. As @darjr mentioned, Basic Fantasy is also very popular. The art is a bit all over...

As a fan of history, I like work that shows historical figures in all their complexity, good sides and bad sides. There's so many stories of well-known criminals also being very kind and generous in other contexts, or strong-willed politicians being absolute terrible husbands, etc. I often feel...

Oh, I invest in the stock market too. There's a difference between any stock and global economic powerhouses like those listed. I'm not sure Musk is only interested in causing harm. But his intentions are irrelevant to me. Blackrock and such companies are buying tons of single-family homes as...

So, let me get this right. If one billionnaire, Elon Musk, buys Hasbro that's too much. But Hasbro in its current form, where the top holders are: Vanguard, Blackrock, State Street, Goldman Sachs and Citadel with dividend payouts of hundreds of millions per year is fine?

I echo something that Colville said in the video. For me, as soon as you play or DM a few different tables with different people, it becomes incredibly obvious that most people play the game very differently. As he says, some universals have been mostly settled. I've never DMed for players that...

Cairn first edition and the newly released Cairn 2nd.

I use AI to generate ideas, look for words and generate some descriptions. For example, I might ask: "Write to me three weird concepts for dungeons found deep in the mountains." I might run the prompt a few time and find and interesting idea or two from which I work. "Give me three visible...

Most games are not profitable. Profitability has actually been difficult to hit. AAA games are costing more and more and reaching thresholds where you need a huge success to be profitable. Indie games is even worse. Of course there's a few dozen games every year that sell a good amount of copies...

If it's Baldur's Gate 4, it will need to be much smaller in scope or ambition to be good. There are very few studios that have the track records, experience and toolset of Larian. You can't just magically get some people together and start a new studio, or take another studio and just pivot them...

Is the first edition also the first of two? Or is the second edition drastically different and only it will warrant a second volume?

First edition! How's the second one?

I've shifted to Playing at the World by Jon Peterson. It's been on my shelves for more than a year. I like it so far. I had read about the wargaming roots of the hobby but this book really breaks it down. It's interesting to see how different games and designs each gave to D&D part of what makes...

I don't know if I'll ever get to play the game. But it's honestly such a gem of interesting ideas and things done differently. I'm not done with it but it is an interesting read for sure.

Writing rules is very hard. I had to do it for a few board game projects at work and it's one of the hardest communication exercise I had to do. I agree that brevity and clarity are two different things. Clarity can be achieved by adding more words, by being more precise, etc. But it can also...

I'm slowly working on my own system and in the last month I've thought about magic. Right now, I'm leaning more towards having a chance to fail casting the spell that's based on an exhaustion level. The exhaustion level goes up with every spell cast so it becomes harder and harder. Higher level...

That's good to hear. I love Free League and own many of their games!

People seemed surprised when they announced a new edition so soon. I saw quite a few people mentioning that it might be for marketing reasons, to try and profit from Alien: Romulus' release. I hope the new edition was really motivated by a wish to improve the game meaningfully and not just to...