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For ten years I struggled a lot with this stuff and then Doom points from Tales of the Valiant came out. I renamed them "dreadful...

Sid Meyer (of Civilization fame) I think originated the quote.

In looking at 5.5 and playing it, there have been some adjustments to the math. I think it the spreadsheet balance is consistent, but...

In a lot of ways, the job of a game designer works like this: Guess Get it wrong Adjust And you keep doing that until you are more...

I’m not sure the magical beverages are actually alcoholic. They don’t say anything about intoxicating the character, they have effects...

I agree, though subclass abilities coming way too late is a pretty universal problem in the game.

Totally agree that Drunken Monk and Oathbreaker are two concepts smashed into one. I'll go one further and say Cavalier and Storm...

I quite like the Barbarian subclass updates, though I still think fire damage for a desert barbarian feels forced. I get that causing...

The subclass has never been about actually being drunk, and still isn’t in this UA. If you read the description, it’s still about...

Different strokes for different folks, I am not a fan of the 3e FR Campaign Guide. It was both too much and not enough. In that in...

They also brought in Chris Sims for both books. Petrisor is back with D&D as opposed to Magic. Wyatt is involved in both books. The...

While I have the utmost respect for the senior developers that have moved on from WOTC, I sometimes wonder if some of the old guard...

It's worth noting that Jason Tondro was the lead designer and he's been writing RPG stuff for a while. He was at Paizo before he was at...

It's funny, I was just looking at sections of the new FR Heroes book's Guide to the Realms, where there are more than one instance of...

I really hope the subclasses show up in a future Everything book. I bought and loved the 3E FRCS back in the day, but I am just not...