Recent content by Parmandur

I agree, the Paths are far more edgy, both design wise and villain-ishness. If these end up in a book with, like 8 or nine Paths with these being the edgy two...not all that Villainous in impact. They posted a designer insight article just a bit ago, as well, and the intro blurb shows that...

On the other hand, all the Subclass options can be easily run as anti-heroes, or even pretty morally neutral heroes. The Druid isn't really even partiicularly sinister.

Well...no,not necessarily. If these are the only explicitly "villainous" options, that would not be enough for a full product to he "evil" - themed. More likely is we are getting a product with a bunch of Paragon Path type options (the Feat chains are both called Paths), other options might...

The cinematic trailer for Neon Odyssey is pretty amazing, great Saxophone solo amongst the barrage of 80s/90s Sci-fi nostalgia:

I mean, Dragonlance remains a strong possibility for the Holiday release, but I do believe it is likely to be an upcoming Season at any rate. The time for UA to final product historically is 2-15 months. It is still barely possible some of this may end up in Ravenloft (based on the precedent...

Proooooobably. It could still make a November/December product. Strikes me the PC options from the Vampire online supplement would sit well next to the Death Knight and Lich...

Hmmmmm, maybe, maybe not? Could be next year's Season. On the other hand, Champions as something like D&D Suicide Squad would be funny.

That was my first thought.

Yeah, Ravenloft has to be at the printers about now. I appreciate that the Season model gives us a little something to hang our hats on. Feels like something dark side or at least anit/hero is cooking. The Feat trees feel like much bigger departures from prior approaches than the Subclasses...

I don't believe a system (except for something super low-crunch like Fate or Fudge) can be fully "generic", I would agree that Star Wars is a good example of a very broad Setting that can test a game meant to express a wide genre range or combine various "power levels" whether we are talking...

Yeah, exactly. I'm not in the Convention scene, but I wouldn't use the opportunity to play what I do regularly with friends and family, or even thst I would be interested in long term playing. Test some stuff out, do an odd one shot.

Convention play is an interesting thing to look at, but I would not expect it to represent much of anything. Lots of people (such as myself) have ever played at a Convention, and I would imagine one would be inclined to play something different at a Convention than one does regularly at home, or...

Yeah, only slimer D&D Sci-fi likes I can think of were OSR style stuff.

The borders of genre have always been loose.

Yup, a lot of Sci-fi D&D these days. Legends of Avantrisvis flooding my socials with ads for a new Sci-fi 5E project coming to Kickstarter soon, Neon Odessey, looks like another multi-million crowdfunding contender: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/legendsofavantris/neon-odyssey