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The Pathfinder 2e playtest PDFs were free. They did print and sell a physical copy as well, but that was aimed more at collectors and...

And anyway, if we're playing by old school rules, all those humanoids in the Caves are inherently, irredeemably, monstrously evil. Why...

I’m extremely skeptical about this, because Mearls has been beating a similar drum since 2012, when he designed 5e and sold it on...

While I get what this article is going for, something about it doesn’t sit right. It frames the whole hobby as if D&D and its direct...

In my experience, it's more that allowing enemies to retreat invariably leads to them alerting the entire dungeon/castle/whatever and...

Well, the problem there is that PCs aren't shabby at making a retreat impossible for opposition in a lot of games either, and a lot of...

One of the things that complicates this is a lot of games have really poor rules for handling attempts to flee. The net effect of that...

Polaris (the one by Ben Lehman, not the French submarine game).

Flying Circus has quite detailed rules for World War I-esque planes. Tachyon Squadron is pretty good for X-Wing/Viper type space...

The whole "power to cloud men's minds" business was a creation of the radio program. The original pulp Shadow had no superpowers unless...

It's a shame the idea of exceptional fantasy PCs automatically brings cries of "if you want superheroes, play a superhero game!", yes.

And even superheroes fail as well. Doesn't mean they're not exceptional. Is Spider-Man less super because he failed to save Gwen Stacy...

I've never understood this distinction. Sword and sorcery characters are, by and large, exceptional people. Conan, Elric, Imaro, Kane...