Recent content by djotaku

2 quick comments on what you said based on my post: 1. "So in order for the game to stay interesting, the DCs will need to scale with the PCs' levels." - I think this is probably more true with a video game where you might go back to the early levels and suddenly grinding is hard because you're...

Good point there. I think it's interesting to consider when TTRPG rules tell you what you can do and when they tell you what you can't do.

One of my favorite Discworld stories is when Cohen the Barbarian and the other geriatric heroes have one last ride

I didn't see this explicitly called out on the flipmat subscriptions, but it's possible either it got omitted in the new store or I just did a bad job skimming. All the books (that I can tell) come wiht a PDF for free if you do the subscription. So I thought it was weird that getting the flipmat...

I'm going to throw in a related concept - if you're an expert in something you should (almost) never fail. Some systems explicitly code this, but others leave it up to the GM. Can experts fail? Yeah, just yesterday or the day before one of the ladies at the Olympics broke her leg skiing. She's...

I could be missing something subtle, but I think everything you mention in your last paragraph could be done in D&D 5e, A5e, Tales of the Valiant, Pathfinder, etc. It's less about OSR and more about the the culture surrounding the game. What I mean is - if people are coming into D&D 5e from...

Moving seems to be the catalyst for anyone who becomes discerning with books (of any kind) and choosing when the buy physical vs digital.

You remind me - my LFGS sells used TTRPG books. Presumably they buy them at a discount from the person getting rid of it. That might be a way to get some money back from books you didn't enjoy and/or regret buying.

oh 100% - amortized over the life of a game system it is definitely cheap. I didn't mean to disagree with you- just explaining why I haven't bought physical books that I later wanted to get rid of.

Can't answer because this hasn't happened to me. I've only been in the hobby around 5 years at this point (give or take a year). While it's technically a cheap hobby - you just need pencil/paper and a free SRD or equivalent - it's expensive if you actually want the prewritten adventures and...

don't 100% know if there's truth to this, but someone claimed either here or on reddit that leaving your books shrink-wrapped can lead to them molding or otherwise getting messed up on the inside. They purported to have 1st hand experience with this. (edit: fix typo)

I think for the table and/or the GM this (what you wrote above) is absolutely perfect. Because I enjoy writing I do a summary of the major plot points including anything especially interesting or funny. I post them to my blog if anyone wants to read them. I know at least some of my players read...

I have it (I was a KS backer) and I love it - especially the base-building.

Thanks, that's not enough friction for me to not buy it on Foundry marketplace. But I did just think of something (based on the similar threads suggested at bottom) - if I buy it directly from Paizo then I get more Paizo Points (whatever it's actually called) that I can use as a discount on a...

Other than entering keys, what steps? I'm genuinely curious - I am new to Paizo stuff. I am usually getting Tales of the Valiant or D&D stuff for Foundry.