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Latest Q&A TL;DR So we had this idea we posted a few weeks ago and now we realized it's stupid and won't work. Therefore casters are going to be fun to play from L1 on while non-casters have two dump-levels full of boring before their other dump-levels full of boring. Success! In other news, th...

I always got excited about Burning Wheel because it touches lots of my roleplaying strings (emphasis on player-driven gameplay for eg), but everytime I actually consider getting it, its crunchness (with all those subsystems and little rules) gets in the way and I give up. (as you know, Im more of a...

You should really make a repo on github or bitbucket or so with the text sources of your document, so people can just send pull request with typos fixed etc.

I think that the simplest change that doesn't make it take even more real-time to get to 20th level is to add the assumption that adventuring isn't nonstop, and that there are long breaks between the ones you play and gain levels during. We've found the easiest change is just to decide when to 'lev...

I once had the pleasure of playing in a PF game (core only). I wanted to play a sorcerer (since the DM mentioned he doesn't really like powergaming casters - so no Wizard). Great, it was even allowed...only with the tiny houserule that for casters, there is no 5-ft step. Since positioning is done in...

Yeah, I liked the movie too.


Mysterious guardian thing - I think that was a Helmed Horror. You know, armor filled with red glowy nothing..

So I watched the third D&D film tonight: The Book of Vile Darkness. Surprisingly, it's actually pretty good. Sure, it's trashy, and low-budget, but you feel that whoever wrote it knows something about tabletop D&D. Far better than the first two, but that's not really an achievement... The mo...

Should one buy the Pathfinder book when the content is available for free on d20pfsrd.com on rpgstackexchange Quite a lot of the answers suggested doing it to support Paizo. Yeah, but many on stackexchange downvote you if you don't suck Paizo dick. (Still a great site, though). However, I think Pai...

D&D was an established brand name in PC gaming by that point. You had Eye of the Beholder and the Planescape: Torment, both of which were popular games. Lets not forget the SSI gold box games (even before EOtB). And after Baldur's Gate (1), they obviously could build on an already existing engi...

How would you stat out an item named "grognard pants"? The Grognard Pants did surely see the very beginnings of our realm; though I must press that they "saw" this formative time by their simple presence, and not through some vestigial eyes that might have erupted through rear p...

So in theory, all saves can be targeted, but in practice, they chose a subset consisting of (surprise) Ref/Will/Fort saves...

It wouldn't be so bad if it was simply ability mod + proficiency. But no, random shit has to add to that. Does it stack? Who knows...

But the real problem even that already in the currently released material is that not all stats are created equal. Every second spell targets DEX...

Lots of vitriol on display, all told. Yeah, but it's funny. Also, it's the first time that at least for a few posts they actually answered to slightly negative posts, instead of just ignoring them and waiting for the mass of paizil zombies to drown it out in a pink cloud of fandom happiness. On the...

For Werewolves, the only truly non-negotiable thing is that they turn into 300 kilo war forms. This is the 21st century, people have guns, and hairy regular dudes or actual dogs just aren't a credible threat to some police. Not so sure about that warform thing. A wolf with human intelligence, the a...

What I'm getting here is that werewolves in a game about werewolf society should have the the following traits: A werewolf strain starts when a human performs a magic ritual while coated in human blood and wearing a wolf pelt to become a loup-garou. Loup-garou transform at will. Loup-garou bites sp...

@malak- point. So mountain dwarf for monks and wizards. Lets them start with a 17 AC with burning any sort of resources, and the point-buy set up lets anyone hit the 16 maximum in the primary stat without any issue. Yes, it's silly. Being a dwarf also gets you battleaxe + warhammer proficiency. And...

@malak- point. So mountain dwarf for monks and wizards. Lets them start with a 17 AC with burning any sort of resources, and the point-buy set up lets anyone hit the 16 maximum in the primary stat without any issue. Yes, it's silly. Being a dwarf also gets you battleaxe + warhammer proficiency. And...

Being a Mountain Dwarf gives you Medium Armor Proficiency.

So...why should anyone care?

It doesn't. They wrote up a version in the early months and dropped it like a hot potato. They popped up as levels 1-5 during the second and third versions of the playtest (still in August of 2012), and they were gone by the end of October. (the early Oct version of the playtest kept the same class...

No, it's not too early to judge. We've had 8 (?) different playtest packages that show us how 'cool' their ideas are and how well they work or don't. A few quick quips about the flavor of a class mean jack as to how the class actually plays and how it functions mechanically. So how does the Warlock...

Warlock update in today's Legends and Lore. https://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4ll/20131104 Hm. That actually sounds....pretty cool. Yeah, I'm surprised myself. I'm less impressed. They cited the Hexblade instead of the Soulknife, and the Hexblade is a boring and mechanically bad class....

Ferret wrote:Warlock update in today's Legends and Lore.

https://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.asp ... l/20131104

Hm. That actually sounds....pretty cool. Yeah, I'm surprised myself.

I am impressed, though. He's going to work on a setting even less compelling than Numenera. 'Aliens are going to get you from the interwebs.' Somehow. I understood it like that: Bruce Cordell wants to have teh Kickstarter lootz too, so he rings up his old buddy Monte. They agree that Cordell has to...

What happened to/with Numenera... or w/e it's called? Numenera is out. Kickstarter backers got their copy and it's for sale to the general public. I'm not a fan of his work but props to him for putting out completely new TTRPG products rather than coasting along on Numenera splats. Well...the Stran...