Recent content by Reynard

Players: the reason I drink.

As an aside, CAS is cleary the most innovative writer among them. Howard is probably the best writer from a purely skilled prose and storytelling perspective. Lovecraft is the most aggravating, I guess.

Interesting. How do you square that theory with.B&G explicitly stating that they are holding off giving dates until WotC announces the product?

I do think we go through periods where it seems like everyone is talking about one game or system (besides 5E) for an extended period. And DH was that for a bit around its release. I am just saying that it does not feel there there is a single game or system dominating the non-5E conversation...

That's fair, but that isn't the same thing as the design failing in its intent.

It is among those 5E-response games. But it is hardly the only one. For the record, I really like Daggerheart, and it is A hawtness, but it isn't dominating the conversation.

I kind of feel like there isn't a "new hotness" right now. There are a bunch of 5E games, and a bunch of 5E-response games, and a bunch of Shadowdark, and a bunch of new licensed games. We are in a pretty diverse period.

You can just say you don't understand Fate. We can help get you there.

I think FitD already had its moment. I have no seen a new one in a while.

::checks horses pulse::

I think Blades in the Dark is a game that is well designed with different modes of play intentionally baked into the design, to the point of breaking up actual play sessions into specific phases. I think that is a feature of the FitD system, rather than the PbtA antecedent, but I could be wrong...

Is this an officially licensed Exandria adventure? If so, I am surprised that CR would allow you to use AI art in the project.

I am always fooling around with a competitive D&D concept I call "DungeonBall" and one of the things I have considered a couple times in the process is second by second initiative. One square at a time. If you attack, it costs seconds. If you cast, you have to wait seconds. Like that. It is...