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I definitely think subsystems for very specific situations, ones which can produce interesting and story/setting-relevant results are a fine thing to have. Unfortunately I think a lot of more complex games , including every edition of D&D (4E least) have subsystems which are not at all...

For me, complexity isn't inherently a problem or good thing, it's whether that complexity is justified by creating interesting and engaging results, or whether it just leads to lots of calculation and/or rolling and/or analysis paralysis. In far too many older (pre-2015) RPGs, there's tons of...

That's a very strange account of DH that makes it sound like something pretty weird was going on, where people only got anything done by spending Hope (???), and constantly ran out. Also where the DM spending Fear made the game miserable, which sounds like straightforward bad DMing (the more...

LOL those dice man. I love it and also hate it. How much is that going to cost? It ain't going to be a small amount.

I mean, at least some of these books are heavy and sturdy enough for you to suitably chastise me for my opinions with them!

I think if Haeck saw it that way, he'd have said so. And I don't it was really true, in practice, either - I only played a little in the 1980s, but looking at older dungeon design, people's accounts of adventures from that era, and so on, I don't like "loot half the dungeon, skip any big...

I played three sessions of Achtung! Cthulhu recently, and the headline would be that we didn't think the juice was worth the squeeze. It's a fiddly and rather meta system which has unexciting mechanics, and doesn't have the "cinematic action" it proposes that it is about. That's not to say the...

I don't think the whole approach is bad, but "terrifying moments of anticipation" are not something unique or specific to survival horror. Extraction shooters absolutely have that as well, in fact it's perhaps even more pronounced in that case. I think it's a two specific mechanical approaches...

Yeah I think they're going to end up in basically a medieval fantasy PvE version of The Hunt: Showdown 1896, which is pretty much exactly "survival horror monsters, extraction shooter mechanics". (Totally irrelevant to this but extremely funny to see The Hunt doing a collab with Post Malone of...

I mean, you can a big steaming dump on people's tastes because they aren't the same as yours, but that does absolutely nothing but harden people's dislike, and make people think fans of that system are mean jerks. I'm sure I've been guilty of this at times. It can be cathartic. But it's not...

It's not. 2d20 provokes strong reactions in my experience. At least equally often negative ones to positive ones, too. It's like saying "We should put marmite on all these sandwiches!". Moreso than most game systems. It's not a good fit for a system which would be looking at an audience as...

I read through the details, and it looks like there are lot of good ideas, but I'll be interested to see how many of them survive actual playtesting. Personally I would say they are making some minor but correctable mistakes. Like, they want this to be survival horror, right? That's a headline...

It would though, from Disney's perspective, and from an IP perspective. As soon as you do that, you have to start making major decisions about canon revisions and whether canon even still exists, and if it doesn't, that will actually piss off a lot of SW fans more than the ST ever did. Plus...

Like fair, but I would nuance this a bit. First off, it's not that they're "not important" - a lot of the missable stuff feels big and important and has outcomes that matter and feel emotionally important, it's just not part of the critical path. BG3 has a much broader and more detailed...

Warhammer Fantasy notably included some shockingly racist stuff in the 1980s, which was racist even by 1980s British standards, and it's genuinely rather hard to understand what exactly GW thought they were doing there. What's even harder to understand though is when they essentially revisited...

Sure, I agree, but if that's the standard (and it probably should be) I don't think Central African Forager is going to fare much better. If you're talking about the real ethnic groups only their own terms are likely to be acceptable to them (and rightly so). Whereas when talking about the...

Yup but as it says: "There is no clear replacement for the term "Pygmy" in reference to the umbrella group." - hopefully one is generally adopted in the next few years but I doubt it will be "Central African Foragers" as that's just not accurate. Specific ethnicity obviously wouldn't help here...

For the actual HotE story with pregnant Leia and so on, that you referenced? You missed that chance in 2014 when the books got fully decanonized. And realistically it never was a chance at all because Lucas didn't hate the books but also didn't value them as canon and thought he could do better...

I love his animated work but every live action show he's made has been a disappointment to me. Mandalorian started strong and got weaker season-on-season. Ahsoka was just deeply mediocre and not a story well-told at all (so unlike his animation). Andor also really ruined things for me in that...

I guess I should go back and look at the 2E depictions of them and see what I think. The left pictures are obviously not racist or stereotyped in any way, they're almost Giger-esque and pretty cool. But the right ones definitely make me uncomfortable!