Recent content by kosmosis

It was in 8th grade for me where I got my first taste of this (1988). I had worked up enough courage to present my nerdy hobby in an English assignment that was supposed to be an "instructional speech". I brought my dice and my Players Handbook into Mrs. Smith's class to show everyone how to...

Not a fan of the genre, but a fan of Cortex. Happy to see this released. I hope it does well.

I think a lot of people ignore them because there is no real mechanic attached to it (or if there is one, nobody seems to use it). I think other games that attach certain rewards to those things can be a lot of fun, but even then it can be abused if people "spam" their flaws for gains.

There are so many ways to play these games and I fall strongly in the sub-optimal camp. I've actually moved away from D&D due to the optimization culture that is so strong (see all of the class optimization guides inspired by WoW and now in D&D). I think everyone enjoys these games for...

You bring up a great point here. I guess whenever I have seen anything released with a "D&D" branding, I am bracing myself for a high fantasy adventure story, because "D&D" does not mean much to me except that is used to make fantasy stories. I have read a lot of comments about how, to them, a...

Yeah, I think certain D&D-isms were omitted. Not sure if you have seen another trailer, but Scanlan sings out "Scanlan's Hand" instead of "Bigby's Hand".