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I would agree. This feels increasingly distinct from the 1990s broadening out of the market. In the 1990s it really only broadened out into a number of other fairly large, product-heavy games for the most part. But now it seems like huge numbers of people who I thought of as the kind of people...

I mean you've summed up pretty well why SR hasn't done great despite potentially being an IP which was extremely well positioned. It really comes down to two things: Catalyst and Microsoft. Catalyst have handled the property very badly, and had a lot of very bad ideas and poorly-implemented...

You me my wife and about half the people on Bluesky! Not helping matters about two years later I literally saw the plane (or flaming wreck of, rather, not that I knew what it was at the time) hit Lockerbie, from about two miles away. I spent most of my teenage years just expecting basically any...

I don't think it does, actually. I think that's some very "inside the box" thinking, honestly. In fact, it can potentially make such a change a lot easier, because it means you've got a "captive audience" who you can expose to the changed approach, give "free" copies of new core books as long...

I mean, there's two kinds of people who think 6E is on the way. 1) People who have reached that conclusion by dint of what they see as evidence and just what is a likely course for WotC from now. I think that's like, 80-90% of people who think 6E is on the way (and by on the way, I mean on the...

Like the Player's Option, Combat & Tactics, etc.? But for 5E? I'd be surprised if they went that way. I think that's got a much more niche appeal, even though the people it does appeal to, the appeal is pretty intense. However, historically that sort of experimentation has been the precusor to...

Yeah no-one should be believing anything on the basis of that guy, but he's far from the only person or first person who thinks 6E is on the way, just I think possibly the only one claiming Secret Info Only He Knows that it is.

No, actually I didn't. I only saw it this time because I was looking for it. The website is laggy and everything appears slowly, I scrolled right past it before it loaded. Further, it looks unprofessional. It looks amateurish - and not in a good "hobby game" way, but in a sort of "generic web...

I really don't think he's wrong, at all. I think what you're experiencing is the exception. I know a few groups in the UK, and there isn't one of them that doesn't have 3PP adventures in the mix, and often 3PP settings too. Anything else 3E, like classes and subclasses and races (not connected...

I don't think it's as simple as that, unfortunately. I think preferences re: interating vs. reinventing are quite complex and a lot will depend on what people started, what edition they enjoyed most, why they enjoyed it and so on. Blanket/sweeping declarations like "iterating is always...

The main cover is absolutely sick AF there, incredible use of colour. One of the few occasions I'd prefer the non-alt. Also Deadfall is a great name for an adventure.

Hah, I don't know if I knew that. In a monstrous manual? I mean that's where I'd put him? Or in a book about like, dark gods and stuff? Like you could rebrand the Book of Vile Darkness from being total trash (derogatory) as it was in 3.5E (Cancer Mage? Take a hike, 2000s-era WotC, you...

The issue I have with this is that, at least on PC, it feels like the webpage of just a random TTRPG company. Like, any RPG that could hit $500k on Kickstarter (which is not many but quite a few) could have a webpage like this. There's nothing unique or impressive or really grounded-feeling...

Yeah I'm not sure how Cthulhu, who is basically of godlike power, really fits in with a bunch of Hammer Horror wannabes. Like is Cthulhu, horror? Sure. Should Cthulhu be in Ravenloft, the setting, specifically? Probably not. Like, a domain controlled by some kind of Cthulhu cult leader who is...

I feel like this seems like rhetorical surprise, rhetorical confusion. Are you actually surprised or confused here, or just trying to make a rhetorical point? Because if you can't see why, I don't think the issue is that people need to explain it to you - you're an intelligent person, can you...

Interesting you say that because them adopting 5.5E as an official title frankly means that 6E is probably coming sooner, rather than later. You wouldn't switch to 5.5E unless you had a pretty clear intent to do a 6E, I would suggest.

I guess my issue is more that, if I want to play a solo/small (i.e. less than 5) group game, even an online MP with progression one, WoW is roundly beaten as a fun experience by dozens to hundreds of games (possibly thousands). To me it's a classic case of Blizzard's "You think you want it, but...

I want to be excited about Midnight but I'm not feeling it yet. I've been basically day 1 on every WoW expansion (even if I only played for a month or two in many cases) except TBC and Pandaria, I mean, I guess on a certain level that bodes well because both of those were decent expansions, but...

Yeah Requiem looks amazing and has reviewed extremely well but £60 is a lot, especially when my history of actually finishing RE games is spotty, I will probably also wait for a sale. Currently playing Library of Ruina, a very odd but great turn-based tactical game which defies strict genre...

Maps has the potential to be really good but it's still a long way from where it could be. Though I agree they shouldn't overcomplicate it! There's also a real danger they sacrifice usability for monetisation, but we shall see. But I just don't agree re "trying to make work". They're different...