Recent content by Burt Baccara

I'm seeing some criticisms that it is not holding up a DOH! My bad, and I cracked open my PDF. John Harper did indeed give an attribution on the thank you page.

There is the perennial fav, "most streamlined, easiest to learn for new players edition ever."

Because RPGs are not simply "let's pretend." Describing RPGs as "let's pretend" is a way to ease in someone new to RPGs. With a 50 years history, there are now multiple branches of what is an RPG depending on design goals and what players/GMs enjoy. While "let's pretend" is too reductive, it...

To be fair, did BitD ever carry a PbtA attribution or make mention in its marketing material? There is not even a mention of PbtA on the BitD Wikipedia page, even with Blades in the Dark widely accepted as an evolution of Powered by the Apocalypse. Dungeon World and Thirsty Sword Lesbians...

Just saw that and was on the way back to mention it. Still, a bit of a fumble that they did not give the attribution from the get-go. Great to see the message that the attributions will be in the final material.

That brings up a few questions: If it is based on BitD, why does it not honor the FitD license and contain an attribution in the quick start? If Candela Obscura and Illuminated Worlds are built on top of games with open licenses, then will it too have an open license? While nice that they...

I know that, you know that. Lawyers and media licensing folk who are experts in media deals might still look sideways at copyleft and open licenses, or hear of the history of 4e and decided that is a risk, and as a lawyer their job is to remove risk. Who knows, but I'd guess this is the part of...

Crap, I lied. One more. What if One D&D is not only about one version of D&D. What if One is really the code name, or even actual name, for a WotC universal RPG system to run across their Metaverse and genres as hinted in the song/video? That would make One D&D the D&D version of WotC's...

Minecraft is $26.95 USD for an account, no subscription, and a ton of micro-transactions for skins. Realms though is $7.99 USD per month. Education Edition costs $5-12 a year. So, WotC might end up with a few tiers.

Cypher System too.

I will stop now. :oops:

They can always do a prequel. Same peoples and places, just before it all went wrong.

Glad you posted this, I think the song is not to be overlooked. They are absolutely about to break out of the European Fantasy pigeonhole, they want to open up their own options for what to publish but also what they can tie into from other people's IP. The Buck Rogers era ray gun is kind of...

I have to admit. I really disliked the style of 5e art. This is actually refreshing, if a bit derivative after Vox Machina broke anime style group before them. Was there someone else who was first? Though this art is not quite anime either.

Something to loop in older former players and something to bring in Stranger Things fans. They have truly upped their media game, playing on old and new pop-culture like a maestro. The whole D&D Multiverse is the nexus point for pop-culture tie-ins and monetization on a whole new level. It is...