Recent content by Ghal Maraz

Is 2024 meant to be the Arthurian Year of TTRPGs? I mean, we're waiting for King Arthur Pendragon 6th edition too!

Old School UK's game design school, here: Jackson, Livingstone, Dever and Chalk. Not only Games Workshop, but the biggest hits in gamebooks terms! "They're riveting": thank you, Joe.

Seems Paizo is using this opportunity to excise a lot of legacy components not longer useful and/or necessary: characteristic points, alignment, spell components, confusing "spell level" naming... I approve that.

Thirteen thousand ones, at the end.

Aaaaaand... it's done.

Yeah, this "article" sounds so bad it shouldn't be on first page. It has nothing to do with the usual ENWorld reporting style. I love some enthusiasm, but this is corporate-style level of press release.

This time, I disagree. The work from Codega almost singlehandedly changed the landscape that was looming on the horizon for the majority of the RPG world, saving whole businesses and careers and giving traction to a sort of unionised, never-seen-before community reaction. As much as Coyote &...

Yeah. I mean, it's called "Warlock!". Like, I don't know, in "The Warlock of Firetop Mountain". No signs at all of Jackson's and Livingstone's influence.

I think Codega should be the winner. Her inquire led to a megacorp changing its misguided plans.

Well, that seems quite par for the course in RPG-land. The newer tends to simply substitute the older. The Remastered books will soon be the only PF2 core manuals around, so there shouldn't be much confusion going on any longer.

But what kind of threat do lower level foes represent to higher level PCs in 5e? Apart from a waste of time and a boring combat?

No, they want you to do whatever you like. You could, you know, just skip them books. Use Archive of Nethys. Buy them. Use your existing library. Play another game. But they (not you, they) need to take distance from the OGL.

People who don't understand that companies desperately need to put out new content to stay afloat make me scratch my head. And I'm actually glad we have a Second Edition. First edition had become a bloated, old behemoth, with rules at least 10 years out of time. Second Edition, at least, has...

In my view, it's the same issue, again. They give fighters some other (somehow fiddly) way to do a bit more damage in a fight, while Wizards get actually even better all around. I wonder if WotC designers have some grasp of design balance.

I'm disappointed that an historian like Peterson is working on something which can be hardly seen as nothing else than a celebration (and it's clear from the description). On the other side, he's the only redeeming factor I can see now in that.