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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9734467" data-attributes="member: 725">Honestly, I suspect the same to happen to those two as what's happening with the Cosmere RPG, just a fan cult following buying the product, something they will likely never play or not all that often. Something similarly happened to all the D&D alternatives that spawned from the OGL shenanigans (ORC license), many big promises, many vows of adoption, and everyone just backed out collectively, very fast.To be honest, I find most of those even more boring then D&D and Pathfinder... I don't hate them, I just strongly dislike them as they seem to be either build on activism or a strong fan cult following. Personally I see more possibilities with the bespoke RPGs that do one thing very well, like Shadowdark, the Spire, Mothership, Lancer, Blades in the Dark, etc. Instead of systems that try to be the next Swiss Army Knife RPG...Does it really matter if you play just D&D? We've been doing that for almost 35 years... Sure there have been excursions, but we always get back to that, it's our 'safe' space. Part of the 'problem' is that certain people in the group are more married to D&D then others and it's a journey to get to a point where one could try to introduce other pnp RPG games to the table...We were almost ready to to go to PF2e, but D&D 5e 2024 turned out better for our group then we expected. But we're collectively not buying as much D&D anymore as I did in 2e and we all did in 3(.5)e. And have personally stopped buying physical books alltogether, with the exception of the occasional art book. Book cases are too full, I'll be culling a big portion of my collection, others have already done that in my group. I do have an always growing collection of PDFs via Humble Bundle, Bundle of Holding, etc. Besides the direct buys from dtrpg. And a pretty decent collection of (paid) Foundry VTT modules for a variety of systems. But it's those cheap pdf bundles that widen my perspective in RPGs...</blockquote>

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