Recent content by wakedown

I think this myth has been dispelled.. D&D Next Playtest hit the public in May 2012. From the PF2 team, Bonner was still at Wizards at that time, having just released War of the Spider Queen. Radney-MacFarland, IIRC, also has things out there on social media which indicate experience with...

Not entirely true. As someone active on those forums particularly the PbP ones, PF2E recruitment is fairly anemic. It used to be that every day you'd have a dozen games opening up for PF1e PFS games that would play out. Another area where things have dried up is folks engaged on the...

I feel like folks don't seem to grasp that the sales don't matter. Again this is about the people not Paizo LLC. Paizo isn't part of a public company with shareholders like Hasbro/Wizards with consequences not hitting sales targets. They were a small operation that burst in a window of...

To further put this into context, Paizo is just a teeny tiny company in the world. Remember they were just printing magazines and running an online game store like MiniatureMarket or TrollandToad - you can still buy things like Ticket to Ride or minis from Paizo, it's just they quote 38 days...

"Run as written" is an important thing in Paizo-land, particularly because of the development of the broader gaming culture Paizo cultivated in its wider playerbase via adventures and Pathfinder Society. The goal for organized play was to ensure a consistent experience through adventures...

Ugh, double post. But I'll use the opportunity to cite another example from gameplay. Party is facing an enemy wizard and throws silence on the frontline fighter who rushes up to corner the wizard. The wizard, panicked just as much by the warrior in his face as the delivery of the silence...

I haven't jumped in on PF2 threads in some time since the game failed to win over the group and we've reverted back to 3e/PF1 or 5e in the cases where we wish to scratch rules-heavy itches vs "just sit down and game" itches. PF2 is definitely regarded by our group as "rules play" - great if you...

Quararantine eyes... make.. 2002 and 2020 look similar!

We had good success on a Glove of Storing with NUA to get into a 'no magic party' along with a Bag of Holding with other important magic items to support basement infiltration. In a world with a lot of magic, you'd have to assume paranoid rulers and nobles would be spamming Detect Magic with a...

Cool thread. Guys, it's in our hands as members of the public to stem the spread. Stay home if you can the next 2 weeks and help prevent the USA from following Italy in measures. It's not about you, it's about your neighbors.

I'm not sure what the infatuation is with Amazon sales rank for a niche category - there's a steep decay for daily units where position #15+ could be going days without a single unit sale in the US as long as there was a steady but low demand for the product. Here's a rough layman explanation...

It will be tough. I'm in reach of 3 metro regions with a combined population of 21M where there used to be a thriving PFS community with over 500 players each month on a Saturday gameday. Now the stores aren't even interested in hosting and there's probably only 16 unique players playing both...

I'm not sure how much I'd obsess over Amazon Fantasy Gaming rankings. Gaslands Refueled is up at #15 and Realms of Runeterra pre-sell is up at #2. As far as all the others books - the Bestiary, Lost Omens Guide, etc... they're all behind the Fallout Cookbook lauched over a year ago, so we're...

1E I'd probably try and scratch that itch by playing 2E first. 2E I want to say I had a good run, giving it 12 years before switching only to 3.5E and avoiding the 3.0 books. I'd still go back and play 2E again, THACO and all if an opportunity presented but it would be a casual thing, I...

Ah, I wouldn't try to convince you otherwise but in the 3E era I've been using them with good results. In the last half-dozen or so 3E campaigns they are all essentially banked to "cheat death" when players fall in love with particular characters and Raise Dead is prohibitive. Cheat Death we...