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It's market of more than 200 milion people, decent amount of it is in EU, purchasing power is rising. People are willing to pay for products. Just not for a product that is available for free. If you have decent srd as a tech demo which shows good side of your game, people will buy it. It's...

First,i have friend in publishing industry. Profit margins on books are rather slim. Second, i know mindset of tipical consumer/customer in eastern and south eastern Europe (aka post comunist states). "Why pay for something that you can get for free" is common tought. Plus, intelectual...

Cool. I'll check free stuff from their page first. Is there anything in paid PDF that's not in free stuff? Mechanics wise i mean. If not, i'll stick to free stuff. 😊

Nope. Didn't have a clue. I'm just discussing merits of different business models and possible pros & cons. A5E wasn't on my radar. Will download free stuff tho and have a look. But looking at price tag ( with shipping) of 77 euros. Ouch. 😅

@EzekielRaiden Serious question. Why don't you play 4th edition? You like design paradigme and AEDU. You like how it handled things.

I'm not saying they don't have value for everybody. They have. Yes, they make money on books. But full free version of game is eating into the profits. And how much they make on dead tree products is more and more questionable, even for big companies,with rising cost of transportation and...

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And there are tons of other games without full on srd-s. Like Chaosium games, old White Wolf games, SJG etc Nope. Never bought any of it. But i bought core rulebooks for CoC, oWoD and nWoD game lines, 7th sea core rulebook. I buy core books and player option books plus monster compendiums...

Which ones did it? Paizo? Aren't they doing the same with PF2? If there is any other that has srd with full game mechanics, i would be very grateful if you could point it out. I like free stuff. Bare bones mechanics are enough to play the game. Book, prose, art has value, sure, but those are...

No. I'm saying that srds which don't contain everything are more like demos. You get preview of how game works, how classes operate, but if you want full game, pay for it. If demo is interesting enough, people will pay for full stuff. What is incentive to buy 40-50 euro book if you can have...

Base line of just enough G in RPG was 5ed when it came out. Too much G was 3.x/PF1 at the end of it's lifecycle. When game has so many options for creating player characters and lots of those are bad/trap options, but you need good system mastery to recognize them as such, that's too much for...

Paizo's business model is based on sales of adventure paths. From almost all pf1 players i met ( couple of dozen, more or less), there were only couple of them who bought any pf1 books ( usually core rulebook). Why pay for stuff if it's free online, legeal and easy to access? This way, they...

@I'm A Banana Your idea of Martial exploits look a lot like manouvers and stances from 3.5e Bo9S. Not magic per se, but bordering supernatural ( going on wuxia style of fighters). It's basicly spellcasting mechanic with levels, slots and explits know, just not magic. Personally, i like it...

Not if that change brings risk of pissing off large pool of current paying customers. They did psions in line with 5e design philosophy, aka subclasses, not classes.

Oneshot wonders They are usually wonderfull for one shoots to mix things up a bit now and then, but aren't really that great for long campaigns.

My experience with 4ed is limited. This may be hot take, but i don't see warlord as a class. For me, it's more like character concept. One that can be put together using existing classes. Mix and match, bard fighter paladin, depending how much magic you want.

But he never states it's 5e. Downtime activities aren't exclusive to 5e. To be fair, i also asumed he plays 5e, but this topic is more framed like general discussion agnostic to edition. TBH, stuff like that is for session 0. Setting expectations. At lest, that's how most DMs i know, myself...

Just to be precise. Neither the topic tag, nor the opening post, states that he is talking about 5e. Topic is edition agnostic.

Spells as part of world building isn't that new. Ravenloft did that back in 2ed. Cause of in setting reasons, some spells didn't work, some were altered. Btw this is dnd general thread. Not 5e. And you know as well as anyone who played dnd for some time that every table plays the game little...

Well, not implicitly. But personally, i think being charitable and giving DM benefit of the doubt that he isn't a-hole goes long way in building good relationship. Yep. They get acess to all spells on their list, published in books we are using for game. Custom spells aren't on the list...