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In 1st edition, there was a table full of circumstantial modifiers to attack rolls and ac, including modifiers for flanking, high...

I got into them for a while, but never really enjoyed the games I got out. They lose steam fast ime. Ultimately you do need rules for...

I'd define "Minimalist TTRPGs" as the quintessential "Beer & Pretzels" games. Not bad, but definitely not for serious, long-term...

I think Tiny D6 is about as minimalist as I'm willing to go, rules wise, to try a **serious take on roleplaying. It's maybe .... 18...

Is there any distinction between "minimalist", "rules lite" and "one-page"? To me, one-page RPGs like Honey Heist or Big Goat Little...

The Pathfinder stuff seems cool. Battle Cry, Shining Kingdoms, and Draconic Codex all seem to support classic fantasy, which appeals to...

I think I saw one of the Paizo devs say something to the effect of "With PF1 we made the mistake of releasing a Mythic-based AP (Wrath...

Thanks for the writeup! Battlecry sounds intriguing—though I have to admit, the sheer number of classes in PF2 sometimes feels a bit...

This is intriguing to me. But I like the idea of running bigger battles.

Welcome to PaizoCon 2025! We got a ton of new information during the Keynote Stream. The Keynote Twitch stream kicked off with Erik...

I feel like the rules-as-written power levels of PF2e is very tightly controlled, so Magic Items are either boring and don't let you...

That seems a pretty impressive bit of hyperbole at best, and outright misrepresentation at worst.

If I were to sum it up in one snarky line, I'd say P2e was designed by people who hated that Pathfinder was based on DnD 3.5. As has...

Allegedly this was being made by a former mod of the Pathfinder-2e reddit who was booted from the reddit for some extreme racism stuff.

That's a good point, maybe I'm being too narrow in my definition of novelty. To me, novelty seems like a totally new way to do...