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Michelle Hurd should also mention Law & Order SVU (she was on the first season before being replaced by Ice-T for season 2. He's still on the show. 25 years later.)

I laughed, but my late GM would probably jump all over this, being he was a published Hero System/Champions author who also was strong PF1/Golarion supporter. (Alas, he passed before PF2 was announced, so I don't know what his thoughts on that would have been.)

I don't see how those ideas are in conflict. If Roll20 doesn't see the value in PF2 support in part because 5e support is far more lucrative for them.

Well, no, they make money by providing a service, and if they don't see a potential for making money (because the user base is too small), then they won't provide that service. But in choosing to not provide that service they are less attractive to potential users, reducing the user base. It...

Re PF2 on Roll20, there does seem to be a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation here. On one hand, their support has been relatively poor, leading people to to use other platforms. But that means there's less motive for them to improve their support.

Exactly my thoughts. When it comes to D&D, the dragon ampersand is vastly more important of a logo than the WOTC logo. That is the universally recognized logo for the game.

Yeah, looking at the license and the SRD content this is essentially useless. If you use any of it you have to slap that logo on your book, "prominently", regardless of how little you actually use. And let's be frank, between the paucity of content in the SRD and the plethora of restrictions in...

Race-as-class was one of the things Moldvay did to internationally simplify the game for B/X. Original D&D and Holmes Basic Set don't actually have that, but the strict class limitations on the demi-human races in the original D&D boxed set, which began to be loosened with the introduction of...

That's exactly why I consider 4e to be on the rather complex end of the scale. The systematic elements are straightforward, but the devil is in the details within the actual game play, and the result is it often takes a while to resolve events like combat. In many ways it's elegant, but it's not...

The way I've previously described Essentials that makes more akin to a half edition in its own right is that it is self-contained. That is, one doesn't need the core (PHB, MM, DMG) to play the game using the Essentials books, they are sufficient on their own. Even the 4e PHB 2&3, MM 2&3, etc...

Not surprised that Woll's work would be good. If you've ever caught an episode of Relics & Rarities, the streaming series she DM's for, she's quite good.

I completely agree about ancestry feats. I'm surprised they kept them from the playtest, as I recall them not being popular, but also the are altogether illogical. Gaining more advanced skill in one's profession, which is what leveling represents, should have no bearing whatsoever on how much a...

funnily enough, "Expert" was the name of one of the NPC classes from 3e (and Pathfinder), so it's actually something of a return in its use.

Part of the reason for so much space is that boxes are also often standard sizes regardless of product. It's a way to save production costs.

So apparently they're combining the various support accessories for the hardcovers that have been previously sold separately into a single box. Makes sense.