Recent content by Juomari Veren

Hey, I could be somebody's lawyer if they wanted me to be! Only job I won't try is food service.

Yeah, reading the legalese on the first page there, it seems the copyright mostly extends to the art and the usual magic trademarks (mana symbols plus tapping). I don't know if the fact that this is a playtest product made at a time when one company was getting subsumed by the other might matter...

It'd be equally unfortunate if it wound up shared in a way other than legally, which is as likely as that not happening. And fortunately for us, it's perfectly okay to pontificate on the possibility of both things happening!

This is the part that always gets me when people are tossing stones over the walls of their respective TTRPG fandoms; A PF2E character might make more choices than a 5e character on a level to level basis but they really aren't all that different under the hood, and neither sides enjoys...

General release has always been 2 weeks from early access; That said, my LGS hasn't mentioned if they're getting physical copies just yet, and I wonder if the delay from August has messed with the availability of physical copies such that they can't advance release the book itself.

When it first came out I remember it being extremely underwhelming. I don't know how much they've iterated on it since but the fact that it didn't seem like it did much as a baseline whole being built around a mechanic that can be hard to balance without just making it bad was a big turn-off.

It's almost certainly a matter of sensitivity; Martial arts that mimic drunken swaying are often a little over-stylized in media and it often reduces the character in question to an alcoholic, which some tables do not want to have that vibe if anybody in the group has traumatic correlations to...

I don't know, some settings don't have enough to say on certain subjects I feel, or we'd get something like Spelljammer where they let it cook a little too long with too few ingredients. Maybe if some of the releases are priced like Forge of the Artificer but come in two installments that'd...

The implication from the blurb is that this is Eddie's unfinished campaign, which means that the in-universe explanation is probably that Mike and the gang wrote an ending themselves, and thus could reasonably inject the upside down as an element to the story.

Yeah but I don't know the hire date of the person who went on the press circuit about the franchise model, or how quickly and effectively they're working, or that there's even a way to improve performance in that regard. My gut says we won't see any meaningful difference through 2026, maybe at...

I appreciate the vote of confidence for market synergy, but historically the sourcebooks that coincide with Magic sets (Ravnica, Theros, Strixhaven) have taken 6 months minimum from the associated set release to come out. Lorwyn is probably the Q3 book you're pondering over.

They can and they should. It worked to buy microfiction with some Eberron character options slapped on (at least with Forge of the Artificer we're also getting some meaty DM content this time too), there's no reason to repeat the formula since it was so successful. Also, with all due respect...

I think it's better but still not good. Monks don't want to spend more than 2 ki points for a single feature and they definitely want something cooler than a spell for it if they do. The Beholder tattoo is laughably bad, 4d12 force damage is pathetic and they need to at least increase the...

No way the turnaround can be that quick in a market that has a keen eye from hobbyists and collectors, 99% of products need to be announced at least a fiscal quarter or season ahead of their actual release regardless of how long it takes to produce and whether or not it happens beforehand; A...

New BECMI would be cool, especially if they decided to make epic levels and put them out this way (in addition to eventually putting it into a book obviously).