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I'm in the camp of 5e being an odd design choice but understand it's a solid economic decision. At this point, it's like the game plan has to be: Shoehorn setting into 5e* Make money Make the rpg you really want for the setting as a vanity project. Pray the game's popularity lasts long enough...

... and standees, and dice, and card decks for Treasure/Improv Weapons (these are charts in hardback), and decent sized setting map. Just the dice and standees together are another $30-$40.

I've enjoyed running Dragonbane. It can do trad fantasy or OSR/sandbox. It's just more deadly on average and stays more deadly as there are no levels and thus no HP bloat.* The game is closer to a streamlined Pendragon or BRP that uses a d20 instead of d100. Using the d20, the game also uses...

I'm in the camp that having two figures for the two interpretations would have been the smarter, more profitable tactic. Heck, if they sold the figures as bookends for my gaming shelf, I'd be in. Pure speculation on my part, this feels like a publicity stunt to hype the set. Maybe one of the...

Interesting. Part of getting rid of challenge dice is do to some ideas they didn't feel were polished enough at the time to make it into 1st. They they put in Dreams and Machines, and now in 2ed. Pardon me geeking about getting to peek behind the curtain to see how games are made...

Wasn't the reason Peter Adkinson's reason for leaving was because Hasbro completely sold off the video game rights without his input? Like one of the first of many events where it's still plain that someone high up still doesn't get D&D. (I mean this from the OGL perspective)

Do you mean, crpg?

TBH, though, solo play is on the rise again as we discovered that while there are more players than ever sometimes we still can't get schedules or personalities to align.

Evidently, I didn't run GURPS like most people did. I ran a urban horror game with a marooned veritech pilot, psionic eco-terrorist, an Indiana Jones clone, and other odd balls and used only the first four pages with some add ons. GURPS made me favor lizard folk who were more than just swamp...

Now a days, you get your weekly hit of Hite from the Ken and Robin Talk about Stuff podcast. https://www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com/index.php/category/podcast/ The more things change ...

This game would be perfect for a couple of GMs I know. They hate improving but also want low prep.

Fair question. I'm combining size and distance. Modiphius, Free League, and Cubical 7 are bigger outfits that seem to be able to afford to go GenCon and attend other cons on both sides of the pond to network and meet the press in person. For the few small firms I've worked with, they would...

The only time I have discovered any news about Edge products is when I personally visit their website. More than the usually challenges of having all those games shunted off to a smaller overseas studio, the loss of networking ties and media connections probably did more damage. When I was...

Dennis Detwiller of DG fame had a long career in video games and said the industry was more built to spin up studios and then sell them while the deep pocket people in the industry acting like they were embarrassed they had to make their fortunes from those those video gamey things. (Maybe they...

"Selling for parts" was exactly what I meant by sacrificial lamb. At the very least, it seems keeping the other two companies alive is the priority here. Ah. That now makes more sense. Thanks for the insight.

But how can I call myself a genius for finding a loophole in a system that already works in my favor? I might have to actually innovate or treat a business like a ... business instead of chop shop. There was an idea floated around for a while about how we could attract the young bright minds...

I wasn't holding my breath. I had gotten the impression that putting all the ttrpgs into one company was a move to put the products with thin profit margins into one bucket to die a slow death. I'm surprised Edge is still around. Purely speculating if they saddled Asmodee with so much of the...

It states it is a convention one-shot in the first sentence of the article. Hopefully most GM will make changes before using in at the home table and most players at a convention will understand the set up is a bit in media res. Though I did once run a convention one shot at a convention and...

It also illustrates how humans who keep pushing AI think that something that's "close enough" be it trending vs factual, super fast predictive text v writing and image scraping/mashing vs art is equal to "good enough." I assume it's PR spin until it is less wrong all the time.