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My group likes to roll dice a lot more than Free League wants us to. We like the chance of things going sideways. It's just that we had far too many roll 12d6 plus reroll and still no 6s in sight — even if we had played it as written and far less rolls, it still would have sucked the fun out of it.

I really don't like setting metaplot through published campaigns and made me roll my eyes hard. Still like the game and core setting so had no problem deciding not to have the campaign info be canon. And if this uses the 2d6 base and step dice from Blade Runner? I'm all for this.

Big company executives are constantly moving about, this is like a law of (un-)nature. But even if the people he liked had stayed, I doubt it would have ended differently: he spent years on the script that didn't get picked up by any distributors. Without that, it couldn't go forwards. Every...

Sorry I missed that. But it's not even "Golden Age of Streaming". Guillermo Del Toro has had Frankenstein in on and off development since 2008 — at least. And he's Guillermo Del Toro! And for this, add that Paramount already has another D&D series in development and the other big streamers...

I did a 7th Sea/Genesys campaign based on a William Elliott Whitmore song. » And sometimes our dreams they float like anchors In hopeless waters oh way down deep Sometimes it seems that all that matters Most are all the things that you can't keep «

I think we and everyone else here is also ignoring a very big part of the tv-series not going forwards: they still didn't have a distributor for it. None of the streaming services were interested for now and after a certain time of that can't just continue to throw development money at it.

The recent D&D movie doesn't really care about the game at all, and if you ask me, it's still a D&D movie.

There we really disagree. Game mechanics are fine in a game, but they're there for balance and game play. Both of those are terrible things to build a story on. It goes the other direction as well. If you're making an RPG based on a video game, you shouldn't transpose those mechanics as they...

What are your requirements for it to count as D&D then? Because from what I can see and since a lot of the game is set in own campaign worlds: an official logo. But that says nothing about the contents really.

Disclaimer: I never read the books when I was 14 but rather tried to do so during the pandemic as an adult — it did not go well without the nostalgic filter. It's probably good books for early teens, but that's it. I suspect that this bullet is a bit of the problem apart from Hasbro selling...

We had a "Hasbro is looking to sell WotC!!" in 2020, and I'm quite certain there were another one around 2017. It's a recurring click-bait by now. And I don't think I've heard of Hasbro selling an IP ever — if it's not profitable for now they'll shut it down and let it rest for ten to fifteen...

For me the setting is a big plus. It's okay for a horror game to not be Cthulhu Mythos or adjacent cosmic horror.. The fantasy world but sliding slightly into the art deco period rather than faux renaissance period dressed down as dark ages and then be a horror game? We don't have too many of...

There was but only as a Secret Lair Drop. At least the BG3 characters were in a set. And apart from the "Dungeons and Dragons what?" factor of the movie, it came out in a weekend with Super Mario Bros just around the corner as well as at the tail of a pandemic close-down. A rock and a hard...

I think Game of Thrones are two things: the books and the tv-show and they both cast very different shadow over fantasy. The books I think lost their influence quite early, there were other movements that picked up: the grimdark action ones for example. Sanderson is one of the few that still...

We might read very different forms of fantasy, but I've not seen the kind of books A Song of Ice and Fire are to be the dominant type of fantasy for at least a decade. (And even then it was more Abercombe/Lynch rather than GRRM.) And sure, Brandon Sanderson broke some kind of Kickstarter...

For Kobo devices, I really recommend getting the KoboTouchExtended Calibre plugin. It converts epub to a version (kepub) optimized for Kobo devices when you transfer the files. It's a lot of difference in speed for font size changes and a slight speed increse for page turning. But yeah. Kobo...

A lot of the comicsgate people speak grognard, and if you're not clued in to what they're doing and is all about, it can be hard to spot as an outsider. Ryan Tyler Palmer — who's pretty involved in the War Campaign spinoff that thinks CG is "weak on the culture war" — wrote a tweet about...

As TH defined it, it just signifies a merger between simulationist and story-games with a focus on the characters and motivations — some closer to one than the other. And in Alien, the way the secret android works where the rules switch on discovery is in this vein, at least for me. It's a...

Neo-trad was coined in 2010, when Free League was designing Svavelvinter and the definition was something like "late 80s, early 90s RPG design that acknowledges that indie games have some pretty good ideas worth stealing." Some of Thomas examples were The One Ring, Gumshoe, and Cortex Plus —...

Which is also why when I talk about worst movies, it will not be Plan 9 or the Room or even Batman & Robin (although you can make an argument there but I will not agree). It's going to be movies made by people who should know better and had the chance to make something and then didn't. And if a...