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There's a unofficial Dragonbane DoD Discord that has almost 2,000 members, both Swedish and English speaking. Free League supports their monthly creation content contest, Dragonburn, with online store credit. The Dragonburn nickname comes from a time when the channel went down and we lost tons...

For those who pre-ordered the Path of Glory book, the Swedish Beta PDF is out. English is coming soon. Just a heads up, Free League will not sell the PDF separately until after the book is out in retail. According to a Swedish gamer who played the original DoD adventure, the new one seems to...

Sigh. The Free RPG map shows no one in South Florida is running Free RPG Day and it also turns out to be a friend's birthday, so I am not participating this year. I tried to get one of my FGLS stores to sponsor it but I was new to the store and didn't realize what their model really was. They...

Okay, so now that someone mentioned organized play, it makes (a little) more sense to me. They are vaguely explaining to tech bros who were too cool to do ttrpgs how reward certificates worked in old school organized play, You finish a adventure and the GM would sign and hand over a paper...

This is literally what the OSR does with rulesets that can be quite different (WWN) or literally identical (OSE) to the original game systems. That's the value add, any stats for creatures, traps, and magical items can be used as is regardless of your OSR chassis. I think the guideline of...

Same thing we said with 3.0. The more things change ...

As a GM who grew up more on Tolkien than history books, I'm not surprised when a war of five armies is brief compared to the rest of the book. So to have the 1e version of Ekbir go into a run on sentence about the country's army seems overly detailed -- especially when it sounds like a word math...

True. In the end, that is all we can really do. Make great product, market it well, and cross our fingers.

We might need boundaries on that question; There is: The muggles who just don't like sci-fi because "If it's not real, I don't care" while ironically holding a smart phone. Nerds who don't like sci-fi in general because they essentially don't like the tropes of episodic sci-fi TV. The guy who...

As nerds, we love to show how smart we are -- even to the point that we'll destroy the wonder of the very thing we enjoy if it means we score a "smart" point with our friends in the room.

And that there is the reason sci-fi ttrpgs are going to always be an uphill battle. For most fantasy games, the DM points to which forest the elves live and which mountain range the dwarves live and it's off to rolling dice. The second a DM pulls out a star map, or even describes how FTL work...

But Mystara does has immortals and a whole region dedicated to their shenanigans - the Hollow Earth - but that might be the exception that proves the rule. Unless you specially want to engage in those rule, how much does it matter in actual day-to-day play? Honestly, for D&D (or the ttrpg...

Source books? That would be only one book with with about 8 to 10 pages a piece. It think that's what WotC for them back in 3e, I think. (Explorer's Edition?) It's well established in the industry that the deeper the tier of supplement, the smaller the return. Heck, CGL couldn't even justify...

D&D, at its heart, is a tool kit. It's just as valid for the answer to be, "My version of Mystara has no sorcerers." At the time, the AD&D books for Mystara/Karameikos mainly focused on politics because rule wise, there was nothing exotic or fancy to add. And the rare races were also...

And has one of the few 1-20 Level Adventure League games in one setting. That's pretty much full on Plot Point campaign.

It looks like South Florida is going to support Free RPG Day.

Oh, yeah. I forgot this one. The tropes around this one are so common that any "clues" you provide will raise red alerts with your players:

The Adventure book says everything but Isle of Mist can be played in any order. That said:

Because, sadly, vanilla is where the money is, so I don't see that as paradox. The vast majority of D&D customers want "same but different." The more imaginative you get, the smaller your audience, which is a space where "release actually intriguing campaign worlds" should be on the top of...

That's the rub, though, a "nod" and "creativity" can be highly subjective. And how far back does one establish this criteria? So far 5e has done lots of creative stuff that's been mentioned above. Some people might love the idea of a body horror biotech "necromaner" is the bee's knees but not...