Recent content by Reynard

I might back. I have been meaning to give running AW a try, and this seems like as good an excuse as any.

While I agree with most of your points, I am not sure this one is axiomatic. It can be true, of course, but it can also be true that players dictate story in earlier tiers, as well as that story in tier 4 is still driven by the GM.

Those are all good. Also just the idea that PCs of that power level, the first in an age, perhaps, attract the attention of long slumbering wyrms, fae princes just on the other side of the veil, or the gods themselves. Just because those powers aren't ever present in this more "grounded" world...

I love the superhero genre in RPGs, and I often use the tropes from there as the foundation on which to do "the PCs and their villains are the most powerful things." My current Daggerheart campaign is explicitly a fantasy supers game, but even as far back as AD&D 2E we folded in supers tropes...

This goes right back to the question of demographics you were responding to. What if the PCs and a few NPCs and powerful entitites are the only high level things in the world? What if the best wizards in the setting top off at 5th level and the PCs are 20th level? Settings designed around...

Just because some element was not part of a public playtest, does not mean it was not playtested. WotC public playtesting is little more than marketing anyway, and I think it is better to trust the designers rather than capitulate to the loudest slice of the fanbase.

The most recent episode of Our Fake History (a great podcast) talks about elephants as beasts of war in medieval Thailand (I know it was not called that then). It got me thinking that borrowing that would be a pretty cool way to use dragons in a setting: intelligent, powerful, somewhat...

In my con games, given time constraints, I usually design the encounters assuming a near or complete nova from the party. This means I use waves of enemies and build a double deadly encounter with a phased or multi-part boss. My current regular campaign does not really have that constraint...

That's just bad GMing, setting up what is supposed to be an important scene for character A but not protecting their role or agency in it.

I don't want this to turn into THAT debate again. I was not asking about or responding to the general idea that casters can outshine non-casters. I was responding to the specific idea of casters outshining others in their personal stories (the example given was the blacksmith versus fabricate)...

I admit that these sorts of things -- having a mini that matches my mental image of my character-- are not things I care about. At all. So I don't understand why it is an issue, but I do understand that it IS an issue for some folks. I'm just as happy to use a die or penny or M&M.

I think it is important to remember that WotC is making this thing exclusive to their platform as well. I don't think DH has a platform, and I don't expect they will release thing solely to Demiplane (for example). That said, every RPG company that sells material you can't get in print is...

Asked for money, it seems.

There are 3 of them right? Maybe they intend to put out a compiled hardcover next year?

It is hard to tell because how you can access the models, but here is a frogfolk versus a ribbit: I am not sure why you would pay extra for the ribbit.