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Weapons in PF2e often have traits that modify follow up attacks, that's neat: https://2e.aonprd.com/Weapons.aspx Like... Forceful (falchion) + damage Backswing (Nunchucks) + accuracy if first attack missed Sweep (Scimitar) + accuracy on different target The modifiers are pretty small though and fol...

I pointed out the Parry issue to my local discord and immediately got told by someone else I would get kicked off his table for rules layering. Apparently pointing out a flaw in the rules is as bad as using it to exploit the game. Go figure. Anyway, it's probably to early to tell but I have no idea ...

Well, it's finally here. Not certain if I can post external links but it's up on archive of Nethys.

It's out, it's here, it's ready to revitalize the idea that 3.5 was always meant to die and be reborn as some horrible hybrid of itself and 4e.

Behold: http://2e.aonprd.com/

They finally killed Resonance at least.

Perhaps maybe objectively good design was a bad way to describe them, but my general point is that we haven't had a game that has really pushed forward actual game design or even reached the level of things like 3e DnD or SR 4e. And I don't see that changing in the current environment because the bi...

I think jt's point is one that is going to be a major factor. Today's market is flooded with lots of smaller RPGs that it's a struggle for non-established names to get the recognition they could rightly deserve. It's an issue that Steam suffers on a larger scale, but the video game market has the ad...

So a few months ago we had a thread started about what exactly is modern RPG design, which quickly got hijacked into Silva clone ver. 3.21 and turned into yet another discussion of PBTA and how modern design was favoring rules-lite systems who better 'emulated single genres'. Trying to restart and i...

For a game that prizes itself in being about storytelling, I'm still bemused by how they introduce a rule that goes so blatantly against proper pacing of storytelling. What does storytelling in the context of Vampire even mean? A game focused on the characters personal stories? A game with a pre-ma...

The thing is that What we do in the shadows exists as a parody of what the current license holders think Vampire should be. I don't see any future where VtM trends towards that instead of the other direction . What other direction do you mean? Because until now there wasn't any directions. Only a r...

OgreBattle wrote:What we do in the shadows is cool

The thing is that What we do in the shadows exists as a parody of what the current license holders think Vampire should be. I don't see any future where VtM trends towards that instead of the other direction.

Mearls is being a lazy one this year, it's July and we only have had Unearthed Arcana for three months, and all 3 were rewrites of the Artificer. Either that Eberron book is eating all their limited attention, or Mearls has finally given up all pretense of actually caring about this edition.

Oh wow that's weird...hopefully he fixes it soon. Either way, I was under the impression this project was dead?

Anyone else find it mildly amusing he declared he was leaving this thread and then immediately started another thread about a PBTA type game?

Okay, so anyone trying to say PF 2e is trying to be less complex is getting nothing more than laughs out of me, because PF 2e only gives a very frail illusion of being simpler that falls apart when you bother to attempt character creations. Now it's true that some things have been simplified, often ...

I sincerely doubt that any contest along those lines will ever occur. Assuming that Mearls would be stupid enough to allow such a thing to occur, I don't foresee them actually picking a ruleset that would be very good to be the contest winner. Also, while I do think that the sales numbers are inflat...

You know it's a failure when the Paizo boards didn't rally behind it. In other communities it's even more dead. Mythweavers has essentially rejected it en masse and is down to maybe one or two supporters. People are not happy about a number of issues, whether it's the Feat Bloat, Resonance, the lack...

Are those list of 2010 great hits that Guts posted actual RPGs? Because I only recognize maybe a fourth of them, and of the ones I recognize, classifying Pathfinder as what he considers as 2010 design is not correct given its essentially DnD 3.75

The reason that D&D actually has tactics, dungeons, and level ups is the exact same reasons presented in DM of the rings, that Lord of the Rings as a campaign is likely to be a grindy, railroady mess with no enemy variety, little mechanical incentives, and your own RP not really having a major c...

Oh, I'll agree that Deadfire definitely has a better story, and I play both games around equally, I just put down Deadfire until they fixed the issue of shoving in the turn-based combat, and forgot to go back to it. I will say the other thing that I think DoS 2 has over Deadfire is the co-op aspect,...

It stinks of an intimidation tactic designed because on some level this has majorly hurt him. Financially is definitely a possibility, but I'm betting more of a wounded pride on the fact that his association with some of the big-time RPGs of the last decade (in marketing and legacy if not in actuali...

I'm actually surprised Wyatt is involved, I could have sworn he was one the folks that Hasbro fired during the 4e era, and I didn't remember him being involved with the core 5e books. As is yeah Ravenica is very disappointing of one of the three 'big' books released in 2018 for WOTC (Ravenica, Eberr...

I did try Deadfire's turn-based system when they released it and quickly left because of how bad it was. I'll check it out again but initially it had a major bug where characters would push each other out of the way when moving, and this could result in characters pushing each other dozens of feet f...

I forgot to include one relevant word. Sub-classes. Ten guilds, only 3 subclasses

New to DnD at least. And extremely underutilized for it. Seriously, eight guilds available, but Mearls and co. (Who even is left, Perkins and Crawford?) could only do three of them? It’s not like any of them are even difficult to think of ideas for, each having a general theme that can be related to...

They might be trying to downplay the fact that it’s likely turn-based by not mentioning specifics, as there is currently a split in the isometric CRPG fan base over wether or not the games should be turn-based or real time with pause. They might not be willing to state exactly which yet, although I’...