Recent content by Parmandur

Medium is my preference: I also feel ordering "Medium" is a way of signaling to the chef "I trust you, make me a good steak, please :)" My parents prefer it Bleu, so I thought I just hated steak until one day my dad accidentally "burned the steak" and I had it well done for the first time in my...

It also assumes that good game design and profit are antithetical, which is hardly a given.

Right, that is a specific limit, designed to direct where this can go narratively.

And juat to clarify, a Spell having the Ritual tag is not disqualifiying, it isnjuat that it needs to use Slots to do the Circle.

I mean, that is a lot of Spells. This mechanic is suited for story actions, notnfor fights per se.

2024 D&D The Stormlight Archives RPG MegaTraveller

Some of the oddball ideas really stuck, like Advantage.

1501 DR.

Complete wipeout, take that to the bank. I expect them to focus on how Aasamir wield power in Mulhorand and Unther, and something about gods...but zero nod to real gods.

In my experience, people don't need much if any pushing, they just go with it naturally.

Yet they didn't include a single Mesopotamian, Greek, Egyptian or Norse deity in Planescape.

6-8 is the norm, but because it is a maximum rather than an average the game works fine with fewer, smaller fights, it merely gets easier. Having watched them play, I am dead certain the players don't not have a strong grasp of the rules, at least no stronger than most people I know who...

Right, still proving the point, no real gods. If you must insist, the explicitly stated policy is that each line of text in each D&D book has to be approved by two seperate sensitivity readers. So, yeah, I guess that is a bit more nuanced than "no real world religion" but the result is they...

Asmodeus is not a real god, even if the name has origins in occultism. Tiamat is, again, deeply decontextualized, bearing no resemblance to the vague namesake. They plainly stated (and by "they" here I mean the same editor in charge of this upcoming product) in the OD&D collection that they...

Sure.