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Check out Paleomythic by Osprey Games. It’s basically “Stone & Sorcery.”

As I recently got my hands on the Fantasy AGE playtest, I will likely try running a handful of players through a playtest session or two, likely using Titansgrave as a backdrop.

Yep. The '90s saw a limited revival of "big band" style swing music, though it did incorporate influences from ska, rockabilly, and blues. It was jazz-like (e.g., instrumentation, tunes), but it generally lacked the whole improvisation and virtuosity aspect, so it rang pretty hollow with the...

And how many editions and decades ago were they introduced? :unsure:

I think that the origins of D&D from Midwest "White" America wargaming probably has some bearing on why D&D often presents European cultures and peoples as a pastiche. Similarly, the "nobody" who "bats an eye" are likewise most typically* North Americans. As to whether people truly "bat an eye"...

@doctorbadwolf, I think that plays into what gives Ravenloft a bit of a theme park feel for me. The drama of the various Dark Lords mostly repeats itself artificially as a result of the Dark Powers' machinations. The adventure happens and then the "ride" resets for the next group of attendees...

Here, I think that there will obviously be a difference of tone and play options between an adventure focusing on "All About Strahd" and a non-AP campaign for "My Adventures in Barovia."

I would say that $1,450,557 is "close." ;)

So you can't run a sandbox if the PCs may hypothetically have to hire the Vistani to navigate their way through the Mists to other domains rather than walking as part of a single landmass?

Long Story Short: Luke Crane put up a Kickstarter for a series of zines called Perfect RPG. Adam Koebel's name was (likely intentionally*) buried in the list of contributors, and a number of other contributors for the project were unaware that Adam Koebel would be a contributor, and once they...

At this point, I think it's safe to say that their primary concern is for fans of the Curse of Strahd adventure: you know, the people who are actually buying and playing their games rather than those old school gamers who haven't already been convinced to jump on-board with 5e.

IMO, 2E and 3E Ravenloft always seemed more akin in its presentation to a Theme Park MMORPG rather than a Sandbox MMORPG. I also don't particularly understand the idea put forth that somehow views sandbox play as being directly proportional to landmass size. Blades in the Dark is designed as a...

The roster of people implied to be among the "people who liked it" in this conversation don't seem particularly interested or invested in playing 5e D&D so I'm not sure why WotC should care about them more than the people who bought and played the Curse of Strahd 5e adventure and made it into a...

Good. That's important for making Ravenloft a horror setting rather than an Halloween-themed amusement park.

As someone who has been mostly following this conversation, I don't think that you have substantiated this opinion much, as you mostly repeat talking points as being self-explanatory or self-evident. I think it's far more likely your own deep sense of nostalgia talking and shaping what you...

It will definitely be interesting though to see how much by comparison the updated version of Adventures in Middle-Earth makes when it gets around to that Kickstarter.

I have no stake in this debate; I am only here to sow chaos.

The MToF depiction of the RQ did not seem all that warmly received. I do think that this version disappointed the CR and Nentir Vale fans, as I don't think that it honored what people generally liked about the Raven Queen. But I'm not sure if WotC really has any real grasp of what people liked...

I think that this cohesion has been added as part of Pathfinder 2, particularly the Lost Omens Guide. So much like FR, Golarion has been thematically grouped into regions: e.g., Saga Lands, Eye of Dread, Old Cheliax, Shining Kingdoms, Broken Lands, etc.

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