I watched a review that made it sound like it’s 5e based and only halfway through I realized reviewer just calls every “d20+ modifier” system “D&D-lite”.

Tryign to take Caine is not Dark Fate, it’s “Nature suffers fools briefly”.

Still trying to dig through Returns myself, I heard latter two games are even better.

I played two PbtA games but neither was Apocalypse World. Which is weird sicne I ehard it holds up and has no controversies, unlike Dungeon World.

I sure did not learn anything about ttrpg development or even what cool indie games I could support from following them, because all they do is complain about D&D. If you are D&D hate blog a) jsut say so instead of pretending to be something else and b) you are a D&D blog. Being defined by hatred of the thing is still being defined by the thing.

they tried with Pillowfort and it crashed and burned

“And it was in this moment, when the player opened the book on RECALL KNOWLEDGE rules, that the DM realized, he done fucked up.”

Is that better? I think referencing three terms very relevant to the setting and ones most people will likely hear if they ehard about the game, one of which partially shares name with the game, will clue most people.

Correct. Rich Africans are Ngoma, because their current plan to uplift Africa is to push as many Ngoma Mages and African Sleepers into science and bussiness.

That was about Knights of the Temple of Solomon a.k.a. Knight Templars. Which in Mage are actual Christian Mages. They were fired from technocracy for, according to them, criticising the corruption within organization. According to technocracy they were fired for the Crusades. The truth is likely both.

This is literally lore of RPG Mage: the Ascension. What did you think it was about?

Before my group got bored with D&D and we decided to give it a break and switch to Mage, it got to a level I was prepping to have the this level 13 party fight Vecna and Zariel at once, just to make it at least a little hard.

Love it

And then he either got murdered by PCs or Metuzalah or exploded from Paradox, before turnign into ashtray.

Even in Heroic Fantasy the enemies should be challenging, while in D&D (not even 5e, 3.5 had this issue too), it’s basically inevitable that high enough PCs will rollstomp everything, laughing all the way.

In oWoD meanwhile there is an entire book with ideas how Mages could fix a vampire and what would be the consequences.

Caine congratulates you on making him laugh before killing you.

“Have you seen Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?”

Exalted literally let’s you have your own army of mortals and it functions like an equivalent of grenade in most normal games - something to just throw at the bad guy.

Actually well written Lawful Good characters getting along is so rare :)