MCDM starts work on its RPG Monday!

[darjr]

Well that pretty much confirms the non numeric dice.

Probably. But It's the first day.

 

[overgeeked]

Well that pretty much confirms the non numeric dice.

Here's to hoping instead of manufacturing unique sets of dice they sell stickers instead. Cheaper all around.

 

[Reynard]

Probably. But It's the first day.

Game design is an iterative process. They could have "funky dice" in the design for 6 months and suddenly realize it did not work they way they wanted and change direction.

I look forward to seeing what MCDM comes up with. I do not look forward to a year of people nitpicking a process they barely understand.

 

[darjr]

Speaking of the process they posted in the patreon about day one.

First dev diary for the MCDM RPG.
How much of the work we did yesterday will be in the finished game?
No idea! But this is the process...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I love when Colville gets deeply nerdy about game design, even when some of it sails right over my head.

 

[Reynard]

Dammit. Now I am going to have get back on their Patreon.

 

[aramis erak]

Here's to hoping instead of manufacturing unique sets of dice they sell stickers instead. Cheaper all around.

Not really. Stickers don't stay stuck all that well unless using the recessed dice like Milton Bradley used for a number of games, in two sizes (about 17mm and about 28mm), with the faces set back 0.5 to 1mm from the edges - look at the dice on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Game. They're just a bit over the "standard" 16mm dice size.
That game, BTW, is a good game; the other buffy boardgame supposedly sucks.

During the Star Wars: Edge of the Empire playtest, several of my players used the stickers; those stickers started falling off by the 4th session.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yeah, funky dice are getting easier and easier to find all the time, with advances in technology and an accompanying drop in cost. If anything, I'd expect more interesting dice in future, rather than less.

 

[darjr]

FYI Matt just said the idea is that they think they can do what they want with normal polyhedrals.

Moving target still.

 

[Haplo781]

Something like SAGA?

Marvel SAGA remains my second favorite take on a crunchy licensed superhero TTRPG, just below the Cortex one.