Recent content by jeffh

Every so often Tales of the Valiant draws my interest as a 5E alternative that seems to have quite a bit of support, but... it just doesn't seem all that exciting? Mostly I see 5E with some tweaks, not all of them clear improvements, and most small enough that if I did decide I liked them...

Mistborn was added relatively late to what was initially announced as specifically a Stormlight project. It was quite clear as far back as the Kickstarter campaign that there were going to be separate books for Stormlight and Mistborn (but using the same underlying game system) with the former...

Any chance this means there could be expansions for it? I'm picturing a little kit with extra cards for more classes, backgrounds etc, or maybe even adding to the adventure itself and allowing higher-level characters while keeping the same sort of 60% boardgame format and feel.

Is there a 2d20 game suitable for a fantasy campaign? Not necessarily D&D style, could be urban etc., but a decent, player-accessible magic system is a must. Conan is very low-magic by RPG standards, and most of the others, from what I know of the settings, seem to have no overt magic at all...

Metaphor: Refantazio. I'm up to the second city and loving nearly everything about it so far. The hype was mostly warranted. Don't understand the people who are now coming out of the woodwork to call it "generic" or "boring". If they're not outright trolls, the only explanation I've got is that...

True, but at the time the Comics Code was still current, albeit slightly liberalized in the 70s, whereas the Hays Code had been abolished for about 20 years. Plus, for all that movies were far bigger overall, comics were near and dear to the nerd culture D&D grew out of (and came to partially...

Sounds like they cribbed it directly from the Comics Code.

Even so, I'm fairly sure Froideval did more work than Gygax on that book.

In Manitoba, mostly "pop" or "soft drinks". That specific one certainly looks like a Coke to me but (as you can guess from the capitalization) that's a specific brand, not a generic term. ("Is Pepsi okay?" is a question I might hear when trying to order a Coke, but it would just confuse people...

A book with "Paladins" in the title, describing a setting in which you explicitly couldn't play a paladin, FTW. Yes, I imagine there was some historical reason (behind the title, I mean), but that was really disappointing.

That's how. The hiring firm doesn't necessarily know about, much less specifically intend, these sorts of things.

This was my first ever issue of Dragon. I wanted to check it out and liked the cover. That there were 80 of these (if not more - I don't think this was the newest issue even at the time, though it can't have been more than about six months old) seemed really promising, an effectively endless...

What cost? Aren't the charges the cost? More generally, and not directed at this person specifically but at about half the people who have replied, people seem to be misreading the title and OP. Many of the responses (it's not clear to me whether this includes the person I directly replied to)...

Okay. I thought the level 10 powers for the themes weren't showing up for some of my players but maybe I don't have them using the latest versions.

I haven't looked into all the math in detail, but if I'm reading the chart in post 16 right, it's saying you only get a 7 or better on 2d6 36% of the time? That definitely isn't right, it's (a bit more than) 58%. And I get 64% (exactly) for 10 or better on 2d10, which arguably still isn't great...