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I definitely remember this - as kids who didn't always have regular D&D games, that fiction was a connection that we still had to it. A lot of kids who never even played the actual game still read the stories. I still recall going into my local Crown Books and just seeing an entire section...

He was barely there long enough for it to matter one way or the other.

So here’s a question - do you see people independently of MCG running Numenera at cons? MCG is one of those companies that puts out lots of stuff that seems really interesting but I never, ever see it “in the wild”.

I was thinking the same thing - the money aspect of it is the least interesting definition for me (obviously the creator has a different perspective). What good is a game that makes raises a lot of money or sells a lot of books and yet, I can find no interest online in anyone playing the game? I...

So my library actually has a good amount of Pathfinder, but so too does my local used bookstore - what they both don't have are D&D materials. I actually think it's kind of a function of some folks wanting to purge stuff from their collections and this is where they're ending up.

After a thousand posts from a username that promises more insight, there's not a whole lot there other than threadcraps and gifs. Blocked.

Are people still talking about and visibly playing the game on various forums, social media, and at conventions substantively after its initial release and hype? Is a community growing around the game where people are talking about house rules, tweaks, artwork, adventures?

Can I immediately cross post this to the Things I Learned thread? Cool stuff! Haven’t read Stout in years but enjoyed his books.

Not these forums - One day, OSR people are going to have to get it out of their heads that any criticism or friction with OSR games is not because the players are thinking in 5e terms. These are two different games attached by a name at this point.

Yeah, that’s the one bit of advice I didn’t agree with from the original post. Learn to recognize a good money manager. They are doing work that you wouldn’t want to do.

A lot of states now preserve anonymity for lottery winners because of many of the examples that post raised.

I think a factor is not the rules themselves, but also what was going on at the time when those rulesets came out. The Hickman Revolution started in 1e's timeframe, but that style of adventure design dominated the 2e era, and for many, 2e will always be associated with that.

The combination of tragedy, sympathy, fear, and advocacy in spite of data is a powerful cocktail.

To be fair, it was an optional system even in 2e.

I agree. The intent of the 2e PHB even back in the day was to clean up the 1e rules, but leave it in such a way as to ensure backwards compatibility with any 1e product, which it was very successful at. I understand having a preference for artwork or Gygax's writing style versus the...

And that's what I see overall. They're kind of running out of space to really do anything new.

Sure, a psychic healer is a concept, but when reading the metamorph description, it doesn't fit thematically, IMO. It feels more like a need to check certain boxes for a class type in 5e.

It's not my ideal Psion, but I think given the ecosystem of 5e, it fits within that space and is a good option. Like, it's not a bad class, just not how I'd particularly like to see it implemented. It does fall into the samey sameiness of other class powers. If you're using magic to teleport...

I found even with purging stuff, we still have plenty of books and RPGs, and in my case, video games, that I've never touched. Hell, I'm playing Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time. And of course, we haven't jettisoned every service - so it's not like there's not new stuff.

My strategy right now is just consume less stuff overall. Replacing subscriptions with physical stuff isn’t ideal when I can also whittle through all the stuff I’ve already got and not watched, or read, or played, etc.