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I am so excited! Both for the updates and for the fact that my group is doing session 0 of our test game this Thursday.

Well, I am officially a backer and in for the reduced book cost. Thanks for the reminder that it launched!

My understanding (and this is 10-year-old information so it has drifted through the vicissitudes of time) but during the D&D Next playtest, there was a designer who didn't like the Warlord class. So it didn't get in. Since then there has been a tremendous emphasis on not adding any new...

You make a really good point. As of now, we don't know what will happen. And most of the time when that's the case, we all go to what has (in our opinion) already happened and assume it will keep going. But we don't know. I'm someone who sometimes posts negative stuff here, but I see this as an...

My understanding is that those products are all OGL. And the OGL could (really does) have problems where you use the core content and then make all of your product closed. If that's the same, I think that will be against the CC licensing intent severely. Maybe nothing will change with a...

I want to shift to the earth where 4E was released via OGL. The gaming industry would likely (note the likely part) be very different in that case.

It will be interesting to see how Creative Commons changes the scene. There are some great OGL writers and studios that behaved (in my opinion) very much not in the spirit of the license back in the 3E era. I hope when the new edition is launched and we see what third-party publishers do with...

Sounds good to me.

As someone who's played a 5E bard at the table, and every computer game you can, I hope they make very few changes. Just put the Swords bard in the core book, please.

I was merely responding to the notion that it couldn't be done without a lot of cost and time. Yes, it can. But is it worth that time? Is it going against what someone is telling them about sales? Don't know. Was the a la carte sales even doing much? Don't know. But I do know that you can...

That's an excellent reason to not do it in the first place, I'll agree. The cost of doing that is negligible, however. How do I know that? Because I did something similar to this for a job unrelated to gaming. I made a generic template and then created a macro to extract the information from a...

Project management among different teams, and even different companies is difficult. That said, it can be done, you just have to have the right person herding the cats. In the last year I was involved with a project that involved 8 different government agencies, and several of them were actively...

I guess it's time to reset the clock again. I'm genuinely surprised by this because it's going to mean less money for WotC. Why do I say that? Because people normally purchase an entire product. They only get one-offs when they're looking for something very specific. I don't buy stuff this way...

I've played every edition of Star Wars RPG back to the beginning. I've had fun with all of them, but the one I think I liked the most was the Saga Edition. As I reflect on that, I'm kind of surprised to say that but I think it did a really solid job with the game world.

Exactly. And I don't want them to. I will just throw out there that there needs to be a better way to get books that are not essential core must-haves into people's hands. And of course, if Paizo makes a bunch of money on this book, good on them! It just won't be my money. Most likely they'll...

I see what you're saying, and I agree with you ... but, there's a counterpoint that I think needs to be made here. When I see a book with a price of $80, it's well out of what I'd call my casual purchase range. It's totally reasonable that this needs to be the price, but I simply can't justify...

If you're interested in this adventure, here is a two-hour discussion about it and what makes it so special. I wouldn't watch this if you plan on playing the adventure because it will be completely spoiled for you. Derik discusses the adventure and the style of play that it represents.

This is going to be a first day back for me. Really excited by it.

I think every now and then people investigate threads just to see what's going on. If you've gotten here and have never heard of this adventure I 100% suggest picking it up. It's one of the best ever made and really stands up even today. When someone makes VTT maps for it, I expect to be running...

Here's Bob's video about the survey.