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Honestly the only thing I want from WotC in regards to 4E is a CC-BY SRD. I know there’s a snowball’s chance of that, but I still want it.

Looking across the spectrum, I said it elsewhere, this is literally the best time to be looking at RPGs, and we have zero need for Wizards.

I was finally reading through the domain abilities today (I tend to GM, so hadn't really dug into the player side yet), and there's...

5E characters still have far more abilities to keep track of.

So I can't speak for everybody, but I'm quite literally running two games of Stonetop at the same time. There's no playbook overlap...

Each one has a pretty different take on things too. DS is leaning fully into the deep tactical combat side; 13th age is probably in the...

This is really interesting. This year we have three different RPGs inspired by D&D 4e: 13th age v 2 (I just got the near-final PDFs a...

yeah I answered it from memory action points was misnaming of things like Slayer dice and Prayer dice and similar Class/Ancestry...

That's generally not how that's used? A soft GM move provokes tension or escalates and then turns it back over to the players: "you hear...

The only thing that exceeds 5e's tracking here is hope (the players dont track Fear) and stress, and then armor boxes are basically the...

You need to design for long term play intentionally with engines like this. Generally you'll answer what you're playing to find out at...

Disregarding what it means to be player driven or not I would say that play where we are spending substantial amounts of time exploring...

I think it's pretty clear that even the designer of the game can take what they built and run it off in various directions as they...

What matters to me is where the agenda is (and how tightly we are holding on) - are we focusing on exploring the setting or is the...

While some people do play long, most games of this ilk are meant for 10-25 session play, tied to "arc" style outcomes. They are...