Recent content by Reynard

We very much enjoy playing Daggerheart in person, and I enjoy running it at cons, but I am very happy that it has official FG support now so i can run it more often and for folks who don't like within 45 minutes drive.

I just finished "If anyone builds it, everyone dies," and I need something a little lighter to recover. Maybe I will reread The Road.

This isn't bad but I like Incredible Creatures better.

It just feels like something that would benefit everyone in the space. But then, i don't actually know anything about the logistics of doing such a thing, or if businesses would even be interested enough to help fund it.

I still wish there was some sort of TTRPG trade organization that actually tracked data and did surveys for the hobby as a whole. It feels like we are constantly trying to extrapolate from incomplete or potentially sus data.

That is an excellent little book. And it reminds me i want to try entering some of them into FG now that DH is live.

I think it is worth pointing out that what people are BUYING may not in fact be the same as what people are PLAYING. So comparing GenCon tables to sales data is not going to be especially useful. D&D is popular. Every con has D&D games -- both Organized Play and whatever random stuff us con...

The point of the exercise of it being a 5.5E setting versus something like Modern5E would be to keep the rules modifications to a minimum and focus on expanded options -- similar to how Eberron and Ravenloft treat rules for their milieus.

People like what they like. That's cool. But that is different than calling it "good".

Ah. I replied too quickly. Goodreads -- you know, Amazon's astro-turf book site -- doesn't actually tell us much past popularity. "Quality" does not really come into it. Of course those people would pick RP1.

If The Martian and Ready Player One are the top contenders for Best Sci Fi of the 21st Century, I would suggest the creator of that list doesn't particularly like Science Fiction.

Genre isn't just setting, though. Contemporary/Urban Fantasy is a genre, and so building a setting in that genre necessitates building whatever extra rules you might need with that genre as the primary focus, not some ill conceived attempt at realism in firearms.

I am just curious why "akin to the southwest" and not just "in the southwest"? What is gained by making it second world contemporary fantasy? Not arguing -- genuinely curious. As I mentioned, the one time I did it, it gave us a fresh take on our supers campaign -- D&D tropes as supers...

I think it is easy to overstate the inherent "tone" of Shadowdark, from a mechanical perspective. It is one of the easiest games to hack to get whatever tone you want out of it. Many, many people and small companies have already proven that grimdark, mud and blood spelunking is not nearly the...

Sure, but that isn't contemporary or urban fantasy. That's magitech and aetherpunk.