Recent content by Jiggawatts

As someone who only peripherally follows the comics industry, I feel like Valiant was on the cusp of breaking out around circa 2015-16, but in the last few years has lost nearly all its momentum it had at that time. Not exactly sure why or what happened, but its definitely not to the level it was.

What is the difference between The Fantasy Trip and the Dungeon Fantasy RPG?

From a general overview level, how crazy are the deep magic classes, subclasses, and spells, about on par with existing options or are they prone for abuse?

A clean sheet with all the essentials. It also has vitally important character information front and center such as height, weight, religion, etc, that D&D relegated the back of the sheet with 5E, something which always irked me. Interesting that the Vitruvian Man in the sheet background is...

Its interesting that they are ending 5E the exact same way 2E ended, with a massive world hopping adventure starring Vecna. Die Venca Die 2.0.

Its generally considered that Pillars of Eternity kicked off the CRPG renaissance that we see running strong to this day. So the most proper answer is probably Obsidian. However its interesting to note that Dragon Age Origins kind of exists as the sole example between the two spans of time...

I wish Gygax had done this 50 years ago, would have saved us all from a number of issues, very possibly preventing the orc/drow business of the past few years from even occurring.

This is absolutely a fair point, my apologies. It is possible that SAGA could have thrived under completely fresh IP and different stewardship that wasnt late stage TSR. What was foolish was trying to shoehorn Dragonlance into such, which is apropos given the topic at hand. Simultaneously, I...

Allow me to clarify, anyone can take the Test of High Sorcery as a 3rd or 4th level wizard, in fact that is the ideal time to take it and when most wizards do so. They can also decline to take it if they are content to only practice magic of 1st and 2nd level, the Conclave will leave them alone...

Anyone can use 1st and 2nd level mage spells without worry, the Wizards of High Sorcery considers these folks to be dabblers. Once a wizard grows in power enough to cast 3rd level spells (i.e. once they have the capability to hypothetically lob a fireball into a village square) they are required...

The million dollar question. The SAGA system as a whole was misguided at best.

Wholeheartedly agree. Enforcing a kitchen sink approach to all settings is a disservice to the woven tapestry of creative art.

I am speaking of the Dragonlance campaign world as an entity, not this specific adventure. New adventures are of course fine, given that they honor the framework. Campaign settings are like living pieces of art, it doesn't really do them justice to compare them to a single use consumption works...

It will be interesting to see how deftly such is handled.

I don't see that as analogous. This is more like if they took the original 1939 Wizard of Oz film and edited it to make a bunch of changes then rereleased it as a the same product. I have no problem if someone wants to take Dragonlance and give tribute to it in a new product. Warcraft...