Recent content by amethal

5th edition's use of natural language at all costs sometimes feels like a backward step. As a Pathfinder GM who sometimes converts 5th edition adventures to PF (1e), every time I see "Resistance to non-magical bludgeoning, piercing and slashing weapons" I wonder why they didn't just use...

That makes perfect sense, except for when my collection gets close to complete, and I end up paying more than I want to for the last few items. Still not paying $200+ for hardback Book of the Damned, even though it's the only PF1e product I don't have.

Literally everything I know about New Coke I learned on ENWorld. I've never seen it mentioned anywhere else. Was New Coke ever sold outside the USA? It sometimes seems like there are a whole lot of sub-sets of Godwin's law in operation. Discussion about free speech - shouting "fire" in...

If I could track down my players from the mid-80s and ask them what they thought of Isle of Dread, I imagine the response would be very negative. ("You just wander around fighting random dinosaurs for no real reason.") It's not the adventure's fault - it was the first wilderness adventure I...

Thanks for the link. I miss John Cooper's analysis of monsters, so I just gave his 20 year old review a "Like".

Yes, it would have been nice. Paizo wanted to do it, people wanted to buy it, but WotC said no. I imagine it played a part in Paizo's realisation that they needed to move towards owning their own IP. I don't expect there's any interest within WotC for doing their own version for 5e.

We had a choice of 3 channels, one of which didn't really show Children's TV, so we all watched whatever was on. The idea of not watching a cartoon (unless it clashed with something on the "other side") never really occurred to us. At the time I had the Monster Manual and Monster Manual II, but...

Thanks for those. And there I was thinking some of the playable monsters in Tall Tales of the Wee Folk (1989) were obscure - anyone fancy playing as a pooka?

I agree. I just think that in the context of a side-discussion on "the history of monsters as playable races in D&D " on ENWorld, the Complete Book of Humanoids isn't an obscure book. Several people mentioned it pretty much straight away.

Since that's a derogatory term based on skin colour I don't expect we'll see it in a published RPG book.

100% of the gamers I knew back in the day had access to a copy of the Complete Book of Humanoids. Since I had one and I used to lend it out (frequently, since it was super-cool book). Since your hobby store didn't carry it, but my hobby store did, I think we can safely say that it was in 50% of...

The PF 1st Edition / D&D 4e POD demand versions are currently (approximately) £40 for Act One, £25 for Act Two and £28 for Act Three on DTRPG, which includes the PDFs but does not include shipping. I'd say that was excellent value, especially since I paid USD 195 for them a decade ago when I...

There's Deathwatch as well. The RPG books seem pretty expensive on eBay (in the UK, at least) but that may just be because fans want to collect them, rather than use them to play the TTRPG. I'm a big fan of Dan Abnett's novels, especially Eisenhorn / Ravenor (inquisitors) and the Gaunt's...

I'm looking forward to Pioneer, and I'd love an updated (physical version) starter set.

Apparently, the USA does have some employment contracts, just they are usually only for "professionals and highly skilled employees". Where I live, my employer can change my work hours, my work location and my job duties (within reason) but that's because it's set out in my contract of...