Recent content by Dragonblade

A few years ago I played a D&D campaign in Japan, with Japanese gamers. This was before 5e. Most D&D books were not available in Japanese. This was the biggest barrier to entry. The Japanese players I gamed with all spoke and read English so they used the English versions of the D&D books. We...

This is great, but I really want Deep Magic 1 and 2. I need more spells and magic items for 5e on D&D Beyond than I need more monsters.

They sold off the music division for another 385 million, plus the film and TV for 500 million, so they got 885 million from the sale, plus they extracted and restored the rights to all their IP from the deal. That alone is probably worth at least a billion, if not much more. Also, if the...

Interested, but I don't just want the setting ported to 5e rules. I want Diablo style item generators with affixes, and I want powers that use mana, or have round-based cool down effects. I don't just want reskinned 5e. It should use the same basic rules framework as 5e. Just dump the spell...

Perfect. Well done Paizo and Azora. This is exactly the type of license I was hoping to see. This looks great as is. Hope to see it released soon.

Hate clauses are unacceptable in any open license. I won't reiterate all the valid concerns raised by others (its vague, can be re-defined on a whim, concerns that it would be fairly arbitrated even by "3rd parties", etc.). Perhaps the biggest of all is that a license that can be revocable for...

Its "irrevocable" except when we want to revoke it because we decided to classify your content as "hateful". Which will mean whatever we want it to mean... If I was a publisher, I couldn't run my business with this Sword of Damocles hanging over my head. Just release a new D&D GSL for your IP...

Any "inclusivity" clause is a total dealbreaker. Thats a pure Trojan horse that can be interpreted however they want to go after anyone they want, for a product they don't like. Its couched in this language so you assume they have good intentions, but its very dangerous. Oh hey look, Paizo is...

I'm very interested, but their game has to be totally open. Aside from their product identity, which of course they should protect, all the mechanics should be totally open to the community without restriction to use in other games, with a permanent and irrevocable open game license. Your IP...

Thanks for sharing, this looks really cool. Totally slipped under my radar! I just backed it.

5e Tome of Battle with maneuvers and stances. That is what I want.

Played a decent amount of 13th age back when it came out. Here is what we found that it needed: More detailed ritual casting rules, and a catalog of 4e style rituals, that include mundane things as well as more exotic rituals (e.g. create food and water, detect magic, water breathing, etc.)...

Of course it is absolutely a factor. You cannot inject several trillion dollars into an economy without massively devaluing the dollars already there, especially if those dollars were not generated through creation of capital but through simply printing more of them. Certainly you are correct...

Interesting thread. Frankly, having DMed for optimizers in every edition of D&D, 5e optimization isn't even a thing, IMO. Compared to DMing 3e for 10 years, including up into high levels, the notion of 5e optimization is laughable. In 3rd edition, I had to deal with literal demi-gods stalking...

I like the mechanical weight behind the cleric's class abilities. It actually feels like what a cleric would be in pseudo-medieval fantasy world with a medieval church analog. I typically eschew the D&D pantheons of multiple gods. I don't think that cosmic framework suits the D&D cleric as...