The Gaming Den

Bottom line from the perspective of a game retailer. People are playing PathFinder , more than they're playing 4E . PathFinder involves fewer books than either 4e or 3.x , and the PathFinder equivalent of the PHB is in print, whereas 3.X is OOP. Customers are not complaining about PathFinder , but a...

Group Dynamic Functions: Kitchensink Fantasy Role Play?

Smeelbo

Actually, considering that DDI subscriptions are mostly pure profit, and almost all development costs have already been paid for by the previously published volumes, what makes sense to me is that D&D Essentials might be really intended to recruit more DDI subscribers, rather than book buyers as...

But no one who worked on them will see a dime from you buying copies of those books, because everyone was either a freelancer or no longer an employee of the company. I suspected that was the case. Blah. I *want* to support good writing. The universe needs more of it. Then do what I did, and give F...

I've never played, or wanted to play Exalted , but when I saw it, I thought if it were a game where one could play out Epic Hindu Mythology, things like Ramayana, Mahabharata and so on, then I'd look into it. As it is, everything I've heard about the whole Solar mythology literally makes me want to ...

Likewise, Burning Empires has an explicit campaign sequence, with humans pitted against the devious "worms." The "worms" win if they gain a sufficient foothold to infiltrate and subvert human society, and the humans win if the "worms" are thwarted and set back. There ar...

I notice that these creatures that "level up" seemed to have their level abilities in three "tiers." Perhaps we could call them Heroic, Paragon, and Epic?

Smeelbo
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This is how they "encouraged" group participation in skill challenges recently: ...Run this skill challenge round-by-round as if it were a combat...roll a d8 and consult the "Shallow Madness" table to determine the...skill or action...for that turn...Characters...can't affect eac...

From the point of view of a game store manager, it seems clear to me that 4E is not as successful as Wizards of the Coast needed it to be, and that they are pushing hard to fix it. As a buyer for a game store, I can say yes, the lack of Arcane Powers 2, Dungeon Masters Guide 3 and the imminent publi...

I am sick of RPG's that require substantially more than one book. I will take Spirit of the Century, Feng Shui, Diaspora, StarBlazer Adventures or even Shadow Run over most other published RPG s, especially 4E . One or maybe three core books should be the max . I am sick of mechanics with mathematic...

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