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My hope for WOTC is that they start to approach the quality and focus of some of the 3PP pubs. Stuff like Dungeons of Drakkenheim is generally significantly better formatted from an organizational and layout perspective, and designed from a general game-running perspective then pretty much all...

I just finished "The Secret Life of Groceries" by Benjamin Lorr. Really interesting bit of investigative journalism and history about the supermarket system and some of the logistics and intricacies that surround it.

Come on now, we all know the true place to go get reviews is Reddit! (this both is and isn't a joke) Consensus across posts there is just like in here "cool ideas, some flawed execution, needs a fair bit of DM work."

(1) of those is a review that actually talks about running through the entire campaign. Most of those are common Amazon reviews, one is literally the "I bought this for my husband and he loves it" from this great satire:

Oh yeah, it's been a fight to get it to have both a stream that runs through AND a road that enters and leaves, AND some other details!

Playing around with Gemini out of curiosity. It has a very specific house-style it thinks of as a "D&D town map" that has big computer RPG vibes. But if you massage it a bunch, you can get something pretty solid looking (although a few strange details when you look close, like say the house in...

Moderate prep, keeping track of the factions and stuff is going to take some setup. Individual locations are laid out pretty well to "run at the table" with a handful of notes on the side of stuff you want to keep an eye on. I think it's the best organized "big campaign" I've seen produced for...

If your player characters have strong innate goals and objectives, you place situations around them with no expectation of how they play out, and at the end of that see what happens next - building the story of play together based on choices made and the rolls of the dice, sounds in keeping with...

Well, if the players are sitting down to play an Adventure Path I hope they're excited to engage with that! But I think it's generally hard to have a pre-written adventure that doesn't start making assumptions about what the players must do at some point, unless you all accept "failure" as a...

The core of the ideas is that you don't have like, a chain of plot and events set out. You don't have "the PCs must do A, and then at some point do B, and then let's see, also C & E or else Z will happen and everybody dies!" It's about posing questions through play and seeing how or if the PCs...

You play to find out the answer to things. No idea where you're coming from here. Pretty much every game that builds "play to find out" as the core of its ethos has the GM front pressures (AW Threats, DW Fronts, BITD factions and clocks, Daggerheart Campaign Countdowns). We play to find out...

Not true at all. You can't play to find out something if the GM doesn't have some idea of what's at stake! If you say "An army is invading the kingdom, we play to find out if the players have what it takes to rally defenders before its too late" having a countdown of Portents / Doom doesn't...

Yeah, the blog is pretty full of the idea that this is "what if we made the kinda OSR-esque / dungeon looting game we want to with our Power Roll tech, and a lot of the innovations in this space that the ream of brilliant OSR games have done."

They're clearly all natural caves or monster-made!

Yeah, but you can also use them in a VTT by grabbing the images. Yes, tactility is awesome (and I think some ofmy online players are using physical cards in front of them?), but most of them are just rolling their physical dice and telling me the result. Also Daggerheart works perfectly in Miro...

Jesus Christ. Ok yeah, I find Draw Steel! to be at the very edge of my complexity and clarity boundary, and this is beyond that.