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This idea keeps popping up and has for awhile now. Not sure how far back it goes as I don't remember Jon Peterson covering it in either Playing At the World or The Elusive Shift. I've never understood the idea that you can win or lose while playing RPGs. People claim that since it's a game, you...

The question came up on another thread but I thought it was worth breaking off into it's own thread. By "successful" here I mean that it works as a horror game, not whether it makes money for the company. So, what do you think? What makes a successful horror game?

To prevent the topic from consuming another thread, here's a dedicated thread for this topic.

Mel Brooks is on a mad dash to cash in before he checks out.

Here’s a video about it from LegalEagle. Never thought I’d be rooting for Disney to win a copyright case.

The [+] is to keep things positive and prevent the same already tired arguments about Daggerheart and more narrative-focused play. There are plenty of other threads to hate on games and play styles you don’t like. There are a few people on here who play Daggerheart and want to talk about it...

Here’s a recent video from Sly Flourish about playing multiple 5E variants at the same table. The video reminded me of a thought experiment I was working on a few years back based on the story of Dave Arneson running players through a D&D game with players having characters from different...

A live-action series starring Nick Cage as Spider-Man Noir. As someone who loves superheroes, Spider-Man, pulp adventures, and noir...this is all the things. Really looking forward to this. https://cosmicbook.news/nicolas-cage-spider-man-noir-first-look Teaser trailer...

That reads better than “in-fiction game elements worth using in other games” doesn’t it? The premise is simple. What bits of fictional contrivance to you take from one game to another? Two examples I regularly use are Cyphers from Numenera and Green Boxes from Delta Green. Cyphers are...

Today Quinns Quest dropped an hour-long review of Delta Green and Impossible Landscapes. A few hours later there’s a $20 Bundle of Holding on offer. If you’re curious and want to dip your toe in, it’s well worth that price. Delta Green is a fantastic horror game...

The [+] is to keep things positive and prevent the same tired old arguments about the OSR scene and OSR-style play. There are plenty of other threats to hate on games and play styles you don’t like. There are a few people on here who play Shadowdark so I thought we should have a general thread...

This idea was sparked by a post over on the What Does the RPG Hobby Need Now? thread. At first, superheroes and Borg games might seem like a perfect mismatch. But I think you could do a lot with the idea. And others already have. There's already a few superhero Borg games out there. To me...

I’m curious if plans are still moving ahead to release the revised 5E stuff under the CC-BY SRD as promised so long ago. Also very curious about older editions being released under a CC-BY SRD as talked about so long ago. Any updates on this?

The [+] is to prevent endless sidetracks into whether video game mechanics should be backported to RPGs. This thread isn’t the place for that argument, have it somewhere else thanks. Today Pointy Hat released another great video. (Keep up the great work, man.) This one discussing a new combat...

Article from the Atlantic today detailing just how extensive Meta’s piracy of copyrighted works was to train their “AI” LLM. The article also points to similar court filings against OpenAI. Literal millions of books including RPGs were illegally used to train these programs.

This might be of interest around here.

Mike Mearls seems to be on an interview tour lately. Today the video of his interview with Ben from Questing Beast dropped. Really not a fan of all the clickbait titles and thumbnails YouTubers I like are using lately.

So anyone more familiar with the ORC and how it works willing to check this out? Chaosium has this FAQ up in regards to their QuestWorlds SRD. QuestWorlds - System Reference Document FAQ text as of today… According to their FAQs they won't permit people to make anything based on the...

Hey, there's a new Bundle of Holding that donates to the Center for Constitutional Rights. The included games are: Apocalypse Frame galactic 2e + Going Rogue Grey Ranks Misspent Youth 1.2 Eat the Reich No God's Country Moonpunk 2 Misspent Youth expansions...

This is a thread for hashing out the math on low-roll wins vs blackjack-style highest roll without going over wins. ENWorlders with better maths knowledge than me, please explain this to the rest of us.