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>>>Who the hell is jeremy crawford

I think he was also involved with the podcasts (i.e. they may have said he was producer/editor or something, but he also sat there and chatted with Mearls, Mazzanoble, etc. while they hotboxed in the recording studio).

The thing that sucks about this whole discussion, is that you're not even arguing over an actual skill system, just a vestigial remnant of one... By my reading, 5e skills serve almost no game function except in a few specific cases (Stealth vs Percep, and DC 15 locks I guess?). So you really only &q...

focusing only on the titular "AK" model, the current AK-105 is made of entirely different materials, is 3lbs lighter, fires different ammunition, has a folding stock, and has attachment rails and a flash hider WHY YOU WANT RAIL FOR KALASHNIKOV? IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH AS PROCURED FROM IZHEVSK ...

BECMI was the nostalgia touchstone that was also like this. You couldn't buy gear, there wasn't that much to spend large amounts on other than castles and warships, and you didn't get xp for loot. However, they gave up on that once they added dominion rules, since you got free xp for collecting taxe...

So... who the fuck is this aimed at? Well I'm sure they've done careful demographic studies and targeted a particu... Oh hey look. The fucking Eagles going on 'final tour' AGAIN. This year. Because I guess technically they had a new album in 2007? And there are fans who totally want to spend $300 t...

There's some kind of faction thing in Pathfinder Society, so I would guess it's borrowed/reclaimed/whatever from that. Season 4 Faction Goals Each faction has specific goals it hopes to achieve during Season 4. Below is a brief overview of their motivations. Andoran: Establish an embassy in Magnimar...

Ryan Dancey is claiming the Oracle v Google reversal affects RPGs... "Because we conclude that the declaring code and the structure, sequence, and organization of the API packages are entitled to copyright protection, we reverse the district court’s copyrightability determination" And the ...

Windjammer wrote:FOUND IT!!!!

http://dmg42.blogspot.nl/2012/02/boot-o ... rever.html

Please let me know what you think - I never used this.

I agree with the guy's reasoning, but I never got to try that particular fix before our group's fucks ran out and the edition imploded.

Clerics (with less spell slots but a larger list).

they'll immediately start designing science fiction hybrid shit to work around the limitations because that is what people do . NO U? Longer answer: You're wrong in the sense that it's more correct to say that's what "some" people do. Some people think "innovating" in RPGs is gr...

If Earthlings can't use their regular every day technology, they will make new technological items that they can use. And because those items don't currently exist, they will by definition be science fiction items . If you don't want things to be full of weird science fiction equipment, leave the f...

Escape Route is simply a terribly written feat no matter what. If it doesn't apply to yourself, the feat is worthless beyond belief or understanding, since it costs multiple feats on multiple characters PF teamwork feats are pretty terrible for exactly that reason (although I have seen one or two c...

I think you're underestimating the potential for featsplosion in additional materiel, Voss. I know feats are a bigger deal now, and that opens the doors for some interesting mechanics. Things that used to be templates could conceivably be feat chains now; vampirism, etc. Yeah, but consider that the...

If anyone wants more reason to hate roll-over and/or Rolemaster, the TN for a basic pass/fail task ("static maneuver") in that system is 111 rather than 100. Also, the d00 rolls are frequently allowed to explode up or down (so you potentially have to add several two-digit numbers together ...

...Session 2 of that failtest went up a couple days ago. (The deafening silence you hear is the Sound of Care.) Spoilers: no Mearls and no MC Killzalot (not sure if this is permanent), but his replacement Bilsand is running a slightly less annoying "pirate" fighter named Blammo. So I guess...

shadzar wins

Monte Cook on G+ wrote:Bruce Cordell joins Monte Cook Games (and we couldn't be happier).

My uninformed guess is that he's switching to full-time fiction writing.

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Bruce R Cordell on G+ wrote:It’s with mixed emotions that I announce the end of my 18-year run at Wizards (and TSR before that). I gave my notice last week and will be leaving the company.

Do people really do that though? If you're fighting alien monsters in the Infinite Caves of No-Humans-Anywhere, then it's already a stretch to have to place the insanely specific gear you find in 4e wishlists. "You kill it, and the +2 Warforged Shoulderbow you wanted falls out of the corpse&qu...

If magic items are rare, it strains believability that you can get specifically the ones you want. It is expected for protagonists to have rare magical artifacts It might not hurt to point out that when you look at pre-gen characters in older edition adventures, one can't help but notice the amazin...

Not refuting any of the above points, but this is my quick list of why the math in 4e was badong: 1. Monster damage didn't scale up fast enough. The original MM chart had monsters gaining 0.5 damage per level, while PCs were gaining 4-6hp per level. So PCs went from dropping in 2-3 hits at 1st level...

I originally watched it on iTunes which doesn't look like it supports comments for individual tracks(?). The only comment threads I've found so far are just on the Wizards forums (search "podcast episode 23"); the hate isn't as pure as we would like, but there are some decent bits: Huh. Th...

So much about that session seemed weird and...amateur? Was he just pretending not to know everyone's character ("oh wow no mages")? And the way everyone was so...passive. I'm going to rule that there was nothing particularly awful or upsetting about their personalities or the way they ran...

You have a mini-game which is popular in abstract, but which is currently written up as an unplayable mess that can only stagger forward after being patched together with mind caulk at each table. I leave it as an exercise for the reader what a company or a game designer should do in such a circums...

Is there really no such limit? Nope. (It's still X successes before 3 failures as of 2010/Rules Compendium/Essentials. There was an alternative rules set called Obsidian which did pretty much what that other Den thread suggested: tallied up total successes over a fixed number of rounds, rather than...