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Goblin Slayer RPG is quite different from Sword World. They share a standard resolution mechanic: roll 2d6 + skill + class level to beat a target number. But that is a pretty common mechanic in Japanese games, and otherwise character generation and magic are entirely different. It would be...

Would this work?

Let me just add, D&D has never been THE dominant RPG in Japan, not even in its Red Box heyday. But it could have been. Despite not even really trying to get into the Japanese market, TSR had the perfect opportunity fall into their lap when the Lodoss War replays were first serialized and blew up...

In terms of rules and especially the lore, Sword World has changed as much, if not more so, than D&D. Change has been an issue with D&D in Japan, but its not changes itself as much as the frequency of changes over the years, as I'll detail below. Not only did D&D do quite well when it was...

My point is not that BWB is an overall negative channel. It’s that he’s specifically negative and critical about WotC. Of those three negative videos, how many were about Hasbro/WotC, versus some other company or happening in the industry? Even with his other content, BWB made his YouTube bones...

True, every survey has selection (and other) bias, but not all biases are equal. A WOTC survey of those following its Facebook and Twitter, or who have DDB accounts, is a poor sample for gauging the general population, or even the specific population of RPG players, but it does provide them with...

This thing is going to selection bias so hard, the red shift will be visible from space.

There are no permissions for any of the tokens, so players can move any token they can see.

The absurdity in the anime comes from the characters completely no-selling the hits, despite copious amounts of blood and visual damage. No cries of pain, not even the fig leaf of an injury to be gutted through typically given in anime. One character even points out that Stark is covered in...

That sounds like the system in Sword World, Japan’s premier fantasy RPG. An attack is a contested 2d6 roll of the attacker’s Accuracy skill and the defender’s Evasion skill. For monsters, GMs can roll the 2d6 for Evasion, or use the average result as a kind of static AC. If the attack is...

Incidentally, I've been enjoying the fantasy anime Frieren: Beyond Journey's End recently, and one of the funny things it does is act as if the warriors, at least, are D&D fighters with loads of hit points as meat. Stark, the fighter character, takes all kinds of hits (including a battle-axe to...

This is why, in the 4e thread where a hit points debate unsurprisingly broke out, I said that HP didn't simulate anything. They're not meat, they're not luck, skill, or vigor. They're just hit points. You lose them by various means, you gain them by various means. I came to this conclusion...

There’s certainly rules integration. Automated damage resolution and movement limited on the PC’s Move Score being two that Prof. DM mentioned. It’s just that those are relatively normal features for a VTT. I find myself somewhat perplexed by their surprised pleasure in some pretty banal...

That is precisely my point, and why your fireball argument doesn’t make sense. You were saying that HP loss from a successfully saved fireball simulated something different from a martial attack that dealt damage even on a failed attack roll. My point is, neither simulates anything. Both just...

Except you’re not. Your clothes and equipment are still intact, you don’t have any scarring from the burns, your ability to fight, cast magic, etc. is completely unhindered. All that has happened is that you’ve lost hit points. And that’s all that ever happens. Characters lose HP. Spells...

Apologies for the delay. A mountain of translation work all came in around the same three week period. Let's continue our look at the Player Character Classes with an overview of the Warrior class group, and specifically the Fighter. Page 16 opens with a quick explanation of class...

With the exception of the Artificer, introduced in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, 5e hasn't expanded classes beyond the 12 introduced in the PHB: Barbarian, Bard, Cleric, Druid, Fighter, Monk, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Sorcerer, Warlock, and Wizard. However, they have expanded on those by...

Those of us who liked 4e but also happily moved on to 5e don’t generally spend much time talking about how 5e is not like 4e.

I say “beck-mi” in my head when I see it written out, but have never had an occasion to say it out loud. Back in the day, we just called it D&D, distinct from AD&D. Which brings me to own personal, private peccadillo. I hate when people refer to B/X or BECMI or RC as a whole as “Basic D&D.” It...

Bumping this to note that now tokens can be renamed in Maps! They now have about 90% of the functionality I need and want. All that's left is a ping tool and a draw tool so my players can set out their AOE effects. Everything beyond that is gravy.