Recent content by ctorus

DMG 2 is a great book but was certainly not 'essential' for 4e. Neither was the PHB 2, 3 or any of the other player books for that matter, if you didn't explicitly want to play the classes therein.

I must be inhabiting a different reality, because everyone seems to be calling for this to be lighter than 5e, yet surely the market is saturated with lighter versions of D&D, and 5e in particular. Meanwhile there is only one game, Level Up A5e, which goes in the other direction (and people...

Anyone who believes WotC's concern was genuinely about 'toxic OGL content', now or in the future, there's several bridges I'd like to interest you in.

'C-level executives' seems very apt.

Strictly speaking a Github repository, but yes one created by a fan of 4e as a place to successfully develop and host the 4e clone you were wondering about.

Yes that's correct - indeed I don't think there's any intention to make it into a 'product'. HTH.

Fine, but then it's not an open license. It places ill-defined and context-dependent restrictions on what the user can do, so it can't be safely used.

It exists and it's great: Orcus

Nah I'll just carry on playing 4e. With the VTTs we have these days, it's just getting even better. I looked at PF2, but the monsters look like a massive pain to run compared to 4e. All those spells to look up! But if I absolutely had to switch systems for fantasy, I suppose I'd give it strong...

Dragonbane by Free League.

I understand why they want to drop the term 'race', even though the reality is that races are an inherently fantastical idea, and the races in fantasy games are effectively a gamification of it, albeit (these days usually) shorn of their prejudicial and unpleasant social consequences. Thus I'm...

Do people really enjoy gaming it out when their characters get ill?

I'm torn. Looks like a beautiful book. I'm not a huge fan of the Y0 system but can live with it. More substantially though, I don't really want my BR game filled with BR2049 lore. 2049 was a decent enough movie, but for me with this setting less is more. The more Ridley Scott and others spelled...

So they made a comedy D&D movie. Almost certainly going to be abysmal (because most comedy movies are), but I suppose we should give it a chance. TBH D&D as played has always had a strong humorous aspect, at least in all the games I've ever seen, so perhaps it fits. Can't say I'm particularly...

I show them the map and ask where they want to go. Then I describe the journey through the streets as they go there. Sometimes I start with a lower resolution map and reveal the high-res one underneath as they move. I do the same for wilderness exploration.