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Ah. I replied too quickly. Goodreads -- you know, Amazon's astro-turf book site -- doesn't actually tell us much past popularity. "Quality" does not really come into it. Of course those people would pick RP1.

If The Martian and Ready Player One are the top contenders for Best Sci Fi of the 21st Century, I would suggest the creator of that list doesn't particularly like Science Fiction.

Genre isn't just setting, though. Contemporary/Urban Fantasy is a genre, and so building a setting in that genre necessitates building whatever extra rules you might need with that genre as the primary focus, not some ill conceived attempt at realism in firearms.

I am just curious why "akin to the southwest" and not just "in the southwest"? What is gained by making it second world contemporary fantasy? Not arguing -- genuinely curious. As I mentioned, the one time I did it, it gave us a fresh take on our supers campaign -- D&D tropes as supers...

I think it is easy to overstate the inherent "tone" of Shadowdark, from a mechanical perspective. It is one of the easiest games to hack to get whatever tone you want out of it. Many, many people and small companies have already proven that grimdark, mud and blood spelunking is not nearly the...

Sure, but that isn't contemporary or urban fantasy. That's magitech and aetherpunk.

In much contemporary or urban fantasy fiction, you need enchanted weapons (or weapons of special materials) to harm monsters. Gun don't kill goblins or werewolves or dragons -- starsteel does (or whatever). What I think some people ar doing is trying to construct some logic, instead of looking...

I think there is definitely room to build Daggerheart adventures more around the Savage Worlds "Plot Point Campaign" model than like the 5E model. Give the GM the important inflection points, all the necessary adversaries and environments, and let the GM run it.

If John Wick can do it, D&D certainly can. Some folks are focused so much on how "guns just can't work in D&D" that they are missing the point: it is still an action adventure game. It doesn't have to be realistic, any more than melee combat in "regular" D&D is. Which it isn't, not even a little.

Well, what I am talking about is a much more traditional Urban/Contemporary Fantasy setting. That is, Earth as we know it, but with magical stuff in the shadows. I don't think advancing the Realms (or whatever) to some analog of the 20th century is quite the same genre. And I make that statement...

I spent 10 minutes making a character and it was pretty smooth. the only thing is it does not actually tell you how many experiences or cards you can have at 1st level. not a big deal, but since there is a wizard i can of expected it to block the add button after doing 2. The attacks, checks and...

People keep saying stuff like that and I do not see why.

GIVE US A GM SCREEN!

Preferably with similar ::ahem:: vibe to her GLOW work...

I have not had a chance to open it up yet. Stupid work...

For those that partake, Daggerheart is now (finally!) available on Fantasy grounds. Yay! I am looking forward to getting to play more DH!

[not this thread] Do you even realize you are being terribly rude and pretentious?

I mean, I think ShadowMusk would be an indie rpg if he and a small team made i, even if they spend tens of millions on art and marketing. It would be weird to put an upper budget limit on the meaning of "indie." How would you decide what that limit was?

That is more aetherpunk or magitech, IMO. Contemporary Fantasy is usually set in our world, with magic stuff.

Sure, and nothing stops indie developers from doing something very traditional, or traditional developers from doing something experimental. In TTRPGs there is also the question of what constitutes an indie developer. Is Kobold indie?