Recent content by Gambit42

Lol, fair enough good sir. Paizo wouldnt have done it, but I would still love to see my ideal 5E alternate, with is essentially 5E mixed with 2E. Classical spellcasting, more traditional numbers/bonuses to hit, and sleeping for the night only restores a bit of HP.

All of those I would say were going down the same path "in a way that didn't slaughter all the D&D sacred cows", especially the last two. But ultimately, I didn't want a new take on 4E, I wanted a better 5E, just as PF1 was a better 3.5. But I have also come to realize that strict balance is...

I want to like it, but it just went too 4E for me. I will give them credit, they did it in a way that didn't slaughter all the D&D sacred cows the way 4E did, but I still cant help but feel that vibe from it.

I gave Fantasy Flight Star Wars two different tries that totaled a fair number of months, before finally just accepting, this ain't my jam, and happily went back to Saga Edition as my favored SW system.

I both love and find it humorous how apropos the cover art for each is. The One Ring cover focuses upon exploration, the 5E cover focuses upon combat.

What lovely cover art, thank you for sharing. It was before my time, but I appreciate the classical stylings like this and Elmore.

One cannot know, but I would be curious to learn, in the entirety of the D&D realm at this moment in time, so every edition, every offshoot, every clone, what percentage of tables play in a classical style (meaning, 99% of orcs are evil, 99% of drow are evil, tieflings, if they even exist, get...

An orc, a drow, a tiefling, and a birdman walk into a rustic human village...

5E had so much potential in the first 5 or so years, then around the turn of the decade the course was altered and its kind of been a crap show ever since. The newer Destiny trilogy didn't really interest me, after I learned about the lawsuits and the extreme amount of meddling WotC did in the...

I'm going to throw my random errant Wish spell out there at a new RPG I would like to see Jason make. Paizos take on OSR, specifically a modernized version of something akin to AD&D (obviously with all OGL scrubbed out). There especially has never been a good 2E retroclone/successor made (I'm...

The Tashas features are fine, I have no problem with them replacing the 5E base class features, except they moved Natures Veil from 10th to 14th and completely took away Vanish and Lands Stride, which were both flavorful and in the case of Lands Stride was a situational yet classic ranger...

Its interesting that Square Enix has used Mind Flayers (specifically called that) in Final Fantasy for decades with zero issue on the matter. I just want to weigh in to say to the fine folks here, dont allow WotC to trick you with their "think of the children!" smokescreen on their way to the...

Solid adventure, looks good.