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By rendering what/how PCs speak meaningless you invalidate a player's social acumen and force them to rely on their mechanical acumen, which completely changes what the game is about and which skillset gives you the edge. This is why we have different games which meet different needs, and why I...

Sad, but we all knew this was coming.

Sooo they dropped an entire 20 min video on how they changed the die roll mechanics. Again. And what they came up with... is the same mechanics PbtA has been using for the last decade. This has reached the point of parody, and I get the idea the team is more enamored with developing a game than...

RPGs are ultimately just a set of tools and procedures, so it makes perfect sense to use them to facilitate the parts of play you would not otherwise address by simply playing. You don't need a social system when you can rely on your own personality at the table. Likewise you don't need a combat...

The entire premise revolves around biological essentialism, and just because future apes have a caste system doesn't mean it's a good thing. While this would be my preference as well, it still doesn't eliminate the themes of biological essentialism.

It's no accident that #PeppaPig was mentioned in the same breath as D$D as #Hasbro's plans are the same for both: generating content on demand. They have all the media they'll ever need to train with, so they don't need to hire anyone. The results don't need to make sense, as the audience won't...

So I subbed to give it a proper evaluation and add some commentary. Let's see where things are in a month. Yes, that's my point. #Rascal on the other hand does. Because hypotheticals are my specialty, I'm familiar with the media industry, new businesses almost inevitably trip over the same...

So this issue came up on my search for ORC info, yet apparently neither #Google nor #Bing properly indexed this thread, so I had to invoke site search to finish the job. I thought this too, but truth is your derived mechanics are only licensed under ORC if you include the explicit declaration...

I dropped a superchat on #QuinnsIdeas' livestream breakdown of the film, though I'm not sure how much more obnoxious I should be about it. I'm sure there's a huge segment of the #Dune fandom who would be interested in but are completely unaware of this.

After reading both the ORC license and FAQ I'm apparently completely wrong, as it requires an explicit license statement: III. Required Notice. The grant of this ORC License to You is expressly conditioned on You including the notice statements described in subsections (a)–(d) below in a...

Do you have any data on how the duration of the campaign affects things?

Perhaps a tad ;) More like #HarryPotter territory. You forget the part where people tend not to buy outside their fandom, slow their purchasing of alternatives when committed to a multi-year campaign, and the indie market tends to exchange the same $1 among themselves. And yet creators are...

To be clear I'm in the "I want to believe" camp as I'm dreading the inevitable information dark age we're facing. This is why I'm being critical as opposed to ignoring it entirely. I wouldn't be so sure, especially when the quarterbacks are experienced in an industry and have different...

Yeah, I'd suggest everyone get their crowdfunding out of the way before it hits as it's likely to take all the oxygen out of the room for years after.

Again, what value are they adding beyond what places like #DiceBreaker already provide? Journalists who want to focus on journalism. I'm not, as plenty of professionals have no idea what they're doing outside their particular niche. And why would anyone pay to comment there when they could...

So technically you don't even need to produce a game, merely present a compelling pitch, and you retain all rights to your work regardless. The winnings are too small to justify anything other than paying yourself or a single artist however. I warned folks that the #ORC license would bite...

I have no problem with funding prior to completed design. It can be an effective strategy, and in some cases the only one practically available. However the fact anyone thought this minor change was worthy of an update doesn't give me much faith in the process. And it not only implies the...

Right now it's essentially a hybrid blog and mailing list, but I'm still not seeing the value proposition. I mean how is this meaningfully different from something like #DiceBreaker which already provides far more? Honestly they'd be far better off simply running a #Patreon.

So the last 'article' I spotted there was a ZWEIHÄNDER Reforged press release, and the RPG.NET merger interview was hidden behind a subscription wall, free though it may be. If they intend to present press releases in this manner and hide actual reporting behind subscriptions they're going to...

If the system avoids explicitly ordering player turns I can see how it would give them more tactical leeway and opportunities to cooperate, as the mechanics will make sure it becomes the GM's turn eventually.