Recent content by Ringtail

I totally agree. D&D has this sort of assumed and implied milieu of Dwarves, Elves, Humans and Halflings that all look and behave a certain way. The actual Default setting of D&D has changed multiple times over editions (Example: Greyhawk for 3rd) but the implied setting remains largely the...

Really don't like your suggestions, since I think we're well past the point of using a 1d4 for Hit Dice (Seriously, that's just brutal) and downgrading a bunch of classes to smaller hit dice (particularly the d6) doesn't feel good either. Fixing that Caster/Martial divide isn't going to be done...

I haven't played many of them, but you should check out Tarondor's Guide, it was very helpful for me when deciding which ones I wanted to try out.

Baldur's Gate 3 has no day/night cycle, passage of time, etc. It makes sense to limit it in that context, since you have no time pressure to limit their use. (Either from hours available in a day, or from an impending threat. Time mostly stands still in BG3.) Similarly this is why Long Rests...

Well now that I've been playing D&D for over a decade, I can safely say Nostalgia has a big part of it. The clatter of dice on the table, the smell of beer and pretzels, pushing painted (and unpainted) figures around my well-loved vinyl battlemap, worn and stained from a decade of battles. The...

I used to see these types of arguments come up when it came to combat and meta-gaming. Questions like: Should players know Monster AC? Hit-Points? Or the absolutely iconic, Do you know a troll has regeneration? People who argued that players shouldn't know this would often cite "realism" or...

Definitely a "No" for me. I moved to Pathfinder and I'm pretty happy with that, nor am I the biggest fan of the playtest material. That being said as a fan of all things D&D and D&D adjacent, I'll probably acquire them eventually. But in 2024? Not likely. Maybe a year or two after that, when...

I don't think the act of tracking resources is fun, but it can create fun gameplay. Example, Darkest Dungeon. Not a table-top RPG sure, but that entire game is centered around "Resource Management" and is basically an homage to Old-school D&D. Those resources include equipment like Torches &...

I don't hate it. Some things seem better, some things seem worse.In general, its kind of hard to be excited for "more of the same." I'm somewhere between 'Low' and 'Meh.' Voted low because the Druid playtest is a mess.

I need to wait for more information. The OG three Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik and Scott Kurtz made AI for me and it seems like Scott and Mike aren't really invested in it anymore. The crossovers with the C-Team mand Dice, Camera Action just don't interest me. Of course I liked Rothfuss too but...

Can't go wrong with Dragonslayer

Granted I'm not one of his patrons, but I absolutely would love to see him create something new.

Definitely not, and I think his prediction is born out of fear and frustration and not accurate. When the OGL leaks first started dropping, I was wracked with anxiety for days. I thought every company like Kobold Press and Paizo would fold overnight. . . Pathfinder 2e would be cancelled, just...

I'm a younger player, started with 4e in High School around 2012, really got into it in College when 5e dropped in 2014. For most of my gaming life I was playing or running the more "narrative" style of games because that was the norm. That was, as I understood, the intended way to play. In the...

This was a huge shame too as AiME sucked. It was literally just 5e with the magic ripped out. Classes were nearly identical to 5e but with different names and no magic, so martial classes were easily twice as good as those based on spellcasters like the Warden or Scholar.