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I took a look at that session zero free download from the kickstarter, and I must confess that I'm interested again, simply because the ancestries are pretty cool.

Mainly, I was thinking that BA sounds like a lot of words around the idea of keeping effective scores and results within a certain range. Which probably really was a good measure to take for 5e, but it's not really that revolutionary idea if you look at RPGs in general.

Sounds like "Bounded Accuracy" is nothing more than a term for D&D coming around to doing things like the majority of other RPG systems out there. :LOL:

Call of Cthulhu roots, not Cthulhu roots. I remember Arkham Horror as Chaosium's official CoC boardgame, which was kind of silly and fun ... the core conceit was the same as today, I think - you ran around Arkham and tried to close gates and not get killed by the monsters coming through them...

Thanks! Then I apologize for the sarcasm ... I hope that I got across where I agree with you and where I simply didn't consider part of your original post, because it was simply not what I was thinking about at that moment.

Quoting myself just because I'm kind of annoyed and it might prove a point about the communication about 5e: That exchange started with me picking up on a comment to state (in an admittedly slighty sarcastic way) why I, personally, might prefer other RPGs to 5e. I get a vaguely insulting...

Which might be a case in point of how 5e manages to accomodate many levels of player engagement: As it seems, it's absolutely possible to play your character even if you can't remember half of her abilities; which could very well be considered a feature.

You're right, I kind of missed/ignored the point about narrative-heavy or not. I was thinking more about the rules load. However, most of the games I mentioned aren't inherently narrative-heavy (though I guess pbtA is); you can sit down and play Troika or Warlock just as casually, with no great...

Maybe ... but if everyone at the table only cares for the most basic rules elements, because they can't really be bothered with the rest, I'm not really sure why I would choose 5e if I could just as well use something cheaper and slimmer that provides similar rules depths as the most basic 5e...

Well, as I said before: I think that if someone's lucky enough for the market taste to coincide with their preferences, they should be generous when the less lucky act a little grumpy at times.

Which is back to the original question of the thread, because if I say that D&D dominance is bad, that's simply a complaint about the tastes of the market.

I won't disagree. Still, I don't see why you have to act as if you had been personally attacked in your preference for 5e, when there's really only a difference of opinion about how important 5e's design was for its success.

Of course, if no one at the table is into rules-heavy, that means there's no reason to pick up D&D5 just to ignore two thirds of the rules.

So if you basically agree and are just weighing the ingredients differently, why do you choose to be offended (or "tired of")? Frankly, I'm tired of people acting as if 5e was the pinnacle of RPG design solely because it caters to a dominant idea of what RPGs should look like. I totally accept...

Though most of this is somehwere between "design" and "brand identity". It was obviously important that D&D5 was a well designed-game, but it also had to be the right kind of design that sends the right message; because D&D4 sent the wrong message. If D&D5 is 10 times more succesful than D&D4...

For the record: I can't find Reynard suggesting anything like this at all. They just claimed that the system design is not the reason for D&D's current success. They may be right or wrong, but either way, it doesn't mean "D&D5 is badly designed", and it certainly doesn't mean "if you think...

From today, the English translation of the German RPG Mythaloria is available on drivethru - for a very low price, if you choose so. I'm not involved with it in any way besides owning it in German and knowing the author from social media. If you're into fantasy with a Bronze Age vibe, lots of...

Looking closer at the system, it seems fine, though TBH honest not terribly interesting; somewhat similar to Barbarians of Lemuria, though maybe not quite as elegant. I would totally play it, and it is actually weird that it feels so "wrong" to use 2d12. Probably because it breaks the 1-20...

So the kickstarter for 4th Edition will probably launch in March? After reading the preview of 3rd edition on drivethru, I'll probably be in on this. Also, I need to give Shadow, Sword & Spell another look ...

Isn't that exactly what two of the other slightly bigger players - Modiphius and Fria Ligan - are doing? They're using familiar IPs to push their respective house systems, support at least some of them well and publish well-designed beginner's boxes. And they are both most definitely not trying...