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It's not OSR, but I actually really like Daggerheart's text. Lots of shapes and colors to break things up, and coded by section. There's a specific thing they do with callout boxes where it's a shaded color with fine darker lines top and bottom that I think is really attractive (and the color...

SD's design really seems to be all about whitespace. Big chunks between paragraphs, large line spacing, paragraphs that are a couple of sentences. It's very spread out! I think that makes it digestible despite the black and white colors (I generally find some degree of color a la Dolmenwood...

If you can figure out a way better than the Forged in the Dark games, let me know. The designer Matteo Sciutteri is making an OSR-esque Thief game, which is very much not heist-y (in that it's slow deliberate stuff vs fairly breakneck action with lots of twists and turns handled elegantly by...

Oh yeah I got that, I was simply discussing how while you can go pure Progression Fantasy style like that I think that a lot of this stuff works fine as an abstraction based on my life experience. I play plenty of games with pure meta currencies and love them though, Daggerheart being my...

I mean, if you're doing a lot of team based work that involves solving various sorts of problems you start to discover very quickly who is stronger/cleverer/more perceptive/more strategic/nimble/etc. Folks who do a lot of sparring/fighting know who can take more punishment and keep going. You...

Yeah, both Draw Steel! (Which has explicit skills) and Daggerheart have simple ways to designate a primary Roller for something and an opportunity cost for helping. I think that latter bit is a real neat addition, in DS! you can absolutely try and help - but you need to roll to see if you...

DS! started shipping physical fulfillment in end of Q3 '25 afaik. Most of that was the direct sales from the KS/Backerkit, so existing sales from '24. I think it's started to hit the distribution channel in either Q1 '26 (is this calendar year or FY style where October 1 is a new year?) or Q4 '25.

Yeah, I definitely prefer games that tie "skills" to doing an active thing to overcome an obstacle the GM has fronted.

Can you point us at a place outside of the Cosmere fandom that the game is buzzing? I pointed at a very large TTRPG group finding community (in a top 10 metro size in the US) in that has expressed (0) interest in it. The same community has people trying to find groups for a wide variety of both...

Is this a "I hate skill systems" or really "I don't like XP tied to rolling for skills" post? Most games I've seen that include a skill system of any sort also include some degree of guidance around when to use them, generally positing uncertainty/risk/negative outcomes/etc.

Yeah, I'm not really sure how valid that table is for anything but "comparing within GAMA's focus area and survey." For instance, as you note DS! doesnt chart (because they relied on survey responses from retailers mainly and its KS was 2024 I guess?). The DS! Kickstarter likely performed about...

I think that we can accept that a) the game is very appealing to Cosmere fans and b) non-Cosmere fans are unlikely to look much at it without a friend into the thing easing them in, yeah? Again, if a large scale metro group-finding discord entirely full of folks looking for TTRPG groups (most...

Buying direct from the CR store gave you a free PDF code immediately. I dont think you got that if you purchased at retail? I think a lot of the international sales were "direct" for a while, I certainly saw a lot of complaints on the Reddit about the store being out of stock over and over. I...

Oh for sure, I just think that maybe that one horror supplement's KS being so big is skewing the hell out of that chart.

Considering how much of DH for instance was direct via the CR webstore or via B&N / Amazon, do these rankings tell us much? I think it did direct pre-orders only too, so if it say sold a couple mil worth of book copies that would likely rejigger the ranking a lot but that isn’t being counted. I...

A widely spread Discord group-finding server with thousands of members in a major metro area of > 6m people in one of the most educated regions of the US (correlates with reading and other things) is probably approaching statistically significant sample sizes. I’ve seen Cosmere on the shelf in...

Question, does anybody know if these numbers still exclude online/direct/amazon sales? From what I can see, as of 2023 they excluded everything but hobby store retail + KS $.

Most of my non-fora hobby spaces are non-grognard and I don't see any mention of Cosmere at all. The large (thousands of members) metro area meetup discord I'm in had (1) mention of somebody wanting to play it when it released. It's had folks forming DH / DS! / endless D&D / Shadowdark / PF2 /...

I think the more you drift away from a tightly coupled premise + game the harder a concise Agenda might be? For instance Daggerheart does generalized Principles about running / playing that game, and then encourages figuring out specific ones for a "Campaign Frame" that kinda focus down on the...