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As someone who doesn’t love lots of ‘war room’ conversations during battle, this is worrying to me. And I’ve heard it said now several times from various sources that there’s plenty of strategizing with the rest of the players about best course of action during a fight.

I play in a big Pathfinder 2e campaign... pretty much no one there is lazy, unimaginative, or not smart. All the martials fall into repetitive behavior each turn in order to pursue the optimal course of action. Maybe our GM could be more helpful/forgiving for us to do non-optimal solutions...

I appreciate the time and effort C7 puts into their rpgs - Edge, maybe learn a lesson? -- but C7 has a lot on their plate what with multiple games set in multiple time periods across their rpg settings.

Hero came out of an era of simulationist game design and, yea, it's a physics engine, trying to simulate a version of the real world. Wargamers created these early supers game and the entire supers genre in the hobby has been hobbled by this thinking. There's a number of newer supers games that...

I can't stand physics engines in rpgs so any superhero game that does NOT focus on how far the hero can throw or how much weight the bad guy can pick up or how much falling damage the PCs get from Height X, interests me more than otherwise. Hero and Champions convinced multiple generations of...

Glad to see this is out. I think MCDM heard all the fan clamor about 'why aren't you pushing the game?' and MCDM answered. I'm not too worried about it but I'll say that releasing this while Gen Con was happening without any kind of Gen Con push was bizarre, and borderline a total wasted...

I don't understand people (not necessarily on this thread) who are saying having to learn the Cosmere IP in order to play this game is a huge impediment to play. I mean... learning a world setting has been an impediment to play for every rpg with a setting, ever. I don't think that's a big...

I agree. And I’m fine with that and I look forward to the VTT that MCDM is coming out with. I’ve been playing P2e for years on Foundry and it’s a really good experience, so much better than face-to-face (which is a mode of play that I prefer overall).

Ok, so I saw both eps of the Delian Tomb actual play. A level one fight between 5 PCs vs... 8 (?) minions and 2 (?) captains was close to 2 hours. "?" noted because I'm not positive of the numbers. And it wasn't like the players didn't know the rules. The GM was the lead designer, 3 players...

Not to be pedantic, but more as a warning to others... Derik's second live-stream on Draw Steel was nearly 8 hours.

My perhaps-unpopular opinion here is that I wouldn't have hired Steven Kenson as 4th edition's designer. I would have loved to have gotten a fresh designer's take on what M&M might be in 2025 rather than go with the same designer responsible for the previous 25 years worth of the game.

39 conditions?! No. Just… no.

If I'm a 5e player who's interested in much more tactical play, why would I go to Draw Steel and not simply Pathfinder 2e which has way more content at this point? This isn't a challenge to DS and I'm not trying to boost Pathfinder here. P2e is currently the biggest option for 5e players...

Grimwild winning Gold here for Best Free Product will maybe bring more attention to the fact that the creator - J.D. Maxwell -- has been missing for months.

The Sanderson fans love their merch. I think 95% of the people who bought into the original KS don't even care it's a game and have no plan to play. They just saw an official product and with new lore by Sanderson and they bought. It sounds like the game is decent redrafting of D20 which...