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Yea, that doesn't shock me. The synergies between the more limited power sets like Wax and Wayne, or the weirdness of Misting savants like Spook or Miles is something that can be explored. Mistborn were pretty well illustrated by the first trilogy. It's sorta like nobody really wants to make...

All this. At a more vibes level, the '90s aesthetic died off pretty quickly (at least here in the US) after the dot-com bubble burst and post-9/11. The original White Wolf lines were all very much of their time, which made moving back into them more difficult. Also, the end of the original...

Yea, I know it hasn't gone anywhere; I actually prefer a lot of the CoD lines to the original WoD. 90's era White Wolf is the only other time I remember D&D having a competitor that was a real challenger to the throne. (I don't count PF1 in the late 00s-early 10s because it's just D&D...

I've seen two strands of play over the years getting thrown into the "Viking-hat" concept. One is that the GM is going to run the setting as they see fit, with no concern if the PCs get ground up in the gears of the setting. The other (related) strand is that the GM is going to run this plot...

To those of us who come of age in the TTRPG market of the '90s, it's pretty wild that White Wolf went from one of the two main branches of RPGs to an afterthought in less than a decade, but that's exactly what happened.

That's....not a mix. That's just using 2024 without restricting it to 2024+ books only. That's exactly the sort of tight restriction I would specifically advocate against.

I let 2014, 2024 and a ton of 3pp mix freely at all my tables without any sort of issues. I have a PC with a mix of a 2014 subclass with a 3pp subclass and a mix of 2014 and 2024 spells and feats. I think the only time we ever had an issue crop up was a few weeks ago when a newer player cast...

I don’t think there’s an obvious right answer. What I do think is that if you’re playing in a game with sim priorities, is that you have an answer, and that further mechanics you build into the game support that answer. The core rules of every edition of D&D that I’m familiar don't have clear...

Well, the core problem is the DM using the term "realistic" when they really mean "verisimilitudinous". Sim priorities are more focused on the setting following its own internal logic, even if that logic isn't "realistic." The core problem with Hit Points in sim play is that people have...

For my personal version of Eberron, I split the difference. The majority of Dragonmarks are passed on via familial/"genetic" lines, but there are enough spontaneous marks that a PC of a different-than-expected race won't be some massively weird outlier. Most Houses are between 90-95% made up...

I'm actually a big fan of the d30, it feels like a d20 but with more granularity in the results.

If the katana isn't doing at least 2d20 damage, they're both wrong. :)

To be fair, recycling the last generation's IP instead of coming up with novel concepts isn't limited to TTRPGs. It's kinda <gestures broadly at everything>.

"That's not how a katana works, Steve! I've been to Japan!" :)

As per usual, the best approach is to ask the player. If they just want it as a mechanical upgrade, work with them to build a small roleplaying hook localized to the character; there's no need to build out setting-level detail for it. If they would like to attach some setting lore to the idea...

But what do we call it if a Dunning-Kruger effect GM thinks they're simulating because they're an "expert", but is actually just making things up? Do we categorize by intent or result? :)

I follow two broad rules for [+] threads. One, don't post if I disagree or have strong negative opinions about the thread topic. If the thread topic was "Post your 5 favorite Star Wars movies/shows", I'm not going to post to that thread if I'm uninterested in Star Wars or actively dislike it...

My interest in this book is…compounding.

"Evoke setting through its own procedures" is a great phrase.

I would make the argument that the disclaiming of decision-making, specifically authorial decision making (the creation of the next scene, event, framing, etc.) specifically for the reason of avoiding any artifact of possible contrivance, is the core motivation of modern sim-oriented play...