Recent content by SlyFlourish

Yeah, this gets into the whole topic of what's "official" and what isn't, which drives me up the wall. Dan Dillon's work at Kobold Press pre WOTC? Not official. Dan Dillon's work at WOTC? Official! Dan Dillon's 5e work post WOTC? Not official anymore. Ugh.

In their forums they've basically said they can't tool brand new classes.

Yeah, I struggle to come up with things that might solve the problem. Right now I only really have one realistic one which isn't very realistic - release PDFs so people can actually own the content they buy. The danger is also low given how many other RPGs are out there and the open licenses of...

Oh sure, they absolutely would. Imagine if you went to Steam and the top 10 games were always Valve games? How would publishers feel then? What if Valve said "we already sell Half Life 3 so we don't need more FPS games on here. We're going to only do the games we ourselves haven't done"...

Most of the WOTC staff who were at that Summit are gone, including the guy who gave the mighty yaulp when asking whether people would want their material on D&D Beyond (Dan Rawson). I still struggle with the question of whether releasing other publishers on D&D Beyond is good for the hobby or...

On the Reddit AMA they said to expect the same amount of partnered products in 2026 that they had in 2025. My understanding is that it's still a pretty manual process to integrate things into Beyond. Given the complexity of things like a character builder, I wouldn't expect any sort of open...

How about a list of all the games nominated? I know its in the voting page I think but I'd love to have a copy. I want to know where my voted games showed up

@Morrus or anyone. Is there a longer list of all the RPGs voted on with the number of votes?

Stephen and I chatted about it last night at PAGE3 in Philadelphia along with Professor Dungeon Master. I’m just a big dummy.

Crap. You’re right. Sorry. Roll for Combat — Stephen Glicker.

I don’t think so. It’s being published by Hit Point Press (I was wrong, it’s Roll for Combat)

Flavor! Add some pizzazz! Put a top hat and give that bag of hit points a cane and some tap shoes!

The canadian dollars threw me off but it's under $100 for both hardcover books with PDFs so that's pretty reasonable. The alternative would be not selling the cheaper non-PDF package =) $50 for a hardcover book with a PDF is a pretty good value these days.

I haven't read all the posts here and its not as though my opinion on it matters, but I'll offer it. I'd love to see a more "Basic" D&D. I'd love to see what D&D 5e was going to look like when D&D Next was underway and the game could be truly modular. I think Shadowdark is a great example of a...

I do this too. I'll narrate really bad "fail with fear" rolls when they roll very low or really good "succeed with hope". You could use close calls as fail with hope or succeed with fear. I don't think you have to systemize it too much. Five above or five under would do it.