This is really cool! Combining lifepath-style character creation with actual physical locations on a pointcrawl is genius. And the descriptions are a really nice touch as well

I’ve definitely seen that expectation in the OSR. Not so much “this game or adventure is bad because it doesn’t have art”, but it will usually be commented on, and good art is often one of the first things commented on about a game or adventure. I think it is also more common in adventures, or games that have a very specific concept, where the art can very directly spark the imagination or provide context to the text.

You may have already heard of this, but I really enjoyed Honey Heist (https://gshowitt.itch.io/honey-heist) and Crash Pandas (https://gshowitt.itch.io/crash-pandas) also looks good, although I haven’t played that one

I’ve started to wonder if there will be games coming out in the future that are almost unplayable without using a VTT. It’s already how I feel about some more complex games

As a third party developer on Foundry, I really wish the system would update less often, I’m worried a lot of systems and modules stuff will just stop being updated, because it is a lot of work to update to the latest Foundry version all the time. It would be great if they could just get Foundry to a stable point and then leave it to minor updates after that, or maybe like 1 major update a year or something.

I agree on the overall point though, I can’t imagine trying to run PF2e or any other similarly complex game without something like Foundry making it all super simple.