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Battletech has been in my rotation since 1989, love that game and setting beyond reason.

Dragonbane, Mausritter and a solo game about running a fantasy tavern called The Broken Cask. Pendragon 6e is rising on the horizon though…

A big one for me is how far into design/development the product is. I will never again back a Kickstarter where the manuscript isn’t complete and at least through editing. I can understand the need for the Kickstarter funds to do things like purchasing art, contracting production and getting...

Some body call who ever owns WEG D6 theses days and tell them the Starwars license is going to be available soon…

You asked for a citation and it was provide. Just because you don't like the evidence provided does change the facts. Have a good one.

Some of us were on the forge and were involved in the flame wars and watched the implosion in person (in forum?). I assure you the descption "bro" is both accurate and would have been worn with pride by many of the most toxic folks on the forge.

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Ahem... http://indie-rpgs.com/_articles/narr_essay.html

To be honest I think calling "narrative" games writer room games is a more accurate and less loaded nomenclature. I really don't like it when people, companies and groups try to change language in very unorganic ways to fit their desired meaning or in this case marketing. Narrative was...

This is a pretty good way to identify the designers intent on play style, and as a bonus this definition would mean that Risus was the first Narative game to have been published (to my knowledge anyway). I do find it strange that "narrative" focused games are more or less defined by having very...

Hot take incoming… the GM and players make a game narrative or not, rules are very much secondary. I would argue that any game can be played as a “narrative” game. Sure mechanically RAW some games are harder to do that with than others or even possible antagonistic to it, but a good GM and a...

My homebrew is a mix of original and published settings. After several decades of trying to write a cool, original exciting, interesting, homebrew world I gave up and instead I created a map of an interesting island/continent roughly the size of England. I then proceeded to populate it with lots...

I run games in traditional plus more freedom for the players to build story around their “spaces”. As an example one of my players in my current home game owns a tavern and he fully owns how it looks, runs, what it sells, who works there etc. but he doesn’t control the town the tavern is in or...

This thing is heading straight for harn master or MERP territory, which isn’t bad if you like charts but I don’t think his core audience is going to like it.

Plus major new edition of 40k and a half dozen new games from GW is surely behind the miniatures numbers. I wonder if kickstarter “sales” get rolled up into this as well.

I was unclear, the problem is we don’t see anything like a whole picture here. Publishers sell a large volume through their own web stores, digital through drive thru or DDB. Those are the sales numbers I don’t think are getting captured in an accurate way.

As much as I would love to believe these numbers (both the good and the bad) the fact is sales numbers in the industry are very incomplete as the vast majority of companies don’t share any sales data. This likely points to overall trends of lower sales for WOTC and higher sales for GW, but it...

I feel the same, meta currencies work best when limited to players. The GM being able to trigger bad things in game because the players are using a resource to power the cool abilities their characters have results in, IMHO, players not using those cool powers. I also feel like the GM needs to...

One try before I block you, name more game designers that push the “players shouldn’t know the rules” beyond early TSR allums ready go…

40 years in the hobby and people still want to preach at me. I am well aware of the bad ideas that were uncommon even in the very beginning of TTRPGs. There is a reason that only one person in a any rpg publishing house espoused this ridiculous idea. It makes the game unfun for players beyond a...