Recent content by Parmandur

The only games I would bet on for a decade from now are D&D, Call of Cthulu, and the Cosmere RPG (nor necessarilythat it will dominate, but BrotherwiseGames and Dragonsteel ate going to keep their support up at least that long), to be honest...however, Kickstarter success is not really here nor...

Official summary video of the announcements at Drsgonsteel:

Market postioj amd reqction. How many other TTRPGs have you seen articles about in Variety, of all publications? I am not saying it is the "best designed", the "most innovative", or even "most: anything. I am saying that there is no other dorect parallel among other TTRPGs in how it is being...

The Kickstarters are not quite here or there in terms of reception: the game is getting sold in retail quite directly.

Fairly confident it is possible after Stormlighr, but for sure. It was a while back, during the Kickstarter, but they have talked about how they planned ahead for how different some of the magic systems will be: one of the major influences on the action economy is considering player character...

Yeah, and it probably takes some system mastery to do well. I'm still just impressed that the rules, without feeling "cheap" about it, have managed to bridge that balance gap.

They have made an Instagram account for Plotweaver now, so they are gearing up for something... A more thorough report on the Dragonstewl panel linked below, with pictures, this quote is of interest: "There is a Misting or Mistborn path, allowing you better enhance your use of metals, and then...

In the 50 year history of the hobby, Daggerheart's positioning is really something rather new and different. Interesting to see where they go with it.

It is an absurdity, and I see that practice basically dying at this point. New editions, in the normal use of the word edition, like you say? Yeah, that will happen. But the juice is not worth the squeeze doing those sorts of "Not Your Grampas D&D!" manuevers.

We have already seen music charts in two genres topped by AI songs (Country snd Contemporary Christian Music).

Oh, I don't expect this to benefit indies at all: the larger companies will be the ones who market "organic art" as a boutique product. WotC ia ahead of the curve on that, I believe their anti-AI stance in products is authentic: not because they are so nice, it because they have been in the...

... What?

Something to that: Barnes & Noble seems to be pushing the Cosmere RPG stuff fairly hard.

Mostly what Ibwa looking at are the ICv2 Quartetly rankings for FLGS that they used to put out, and I think Savage World heyday was before they started putting those out. Usually, DD and Pathfinder were on tip, Star Wars when itnis available, Call of Cthuli keeps popping in and out, and some...

The Slôpglütening is already in full force on DriveThruRPG... Somewhat counter-intuitively, it is the larger companies who seem to understand the appeal of boutique, human made art as a market positioning tool, while smaller and indie publishers are sort of going full hog on it.