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I have seen two alternative initiatives that I think are worth trying. But I have not tried them myself and don't know what sort of problems or edge cases might be encountered with them. They are presented here as ideas to explore, not necessarily as fully baked or playtested systems...

So lets see if I got this right. A company charges money for a product that we VOLUNTARILY purchase because we feel the value it adds to our games is worth the cost. That revenue pays the salaries of the workers and employees who create that product, so they can put food on the table for their...

Does anyone know if Mearls left WotC entirely? Or just transition away from tabletop RPG team? As far as Zak S, nobody cares or even knows about that stuff aside from diehard fans who frequent niche RPG forums and read about rumors and gossip. I'm highly skeptical there is any connection there.

You are right, my bad. Its been a while. :)

I grew up playing old school D&D. I would never go back to it for a long term campaign. Far too limiting and lethal. Its wizards with crossbows and 15 minute adventuring day turned up to 11. Your skill at surviving was based on how persuasive you could be with the DM in talking your way through...

I don't have any experience with PF2, but I was a huge 4e fan. One of my favorite aspects of 4e was the balance was so tight that as DM, I could tell my players to make any PC they wanted and I never had to review it for broken combos or exploits. In fact, having players surprise me in fights...

Tome of Battle and its not even close. Greatest D&D sourcebook of all time, hands down.

Yes, the entire concept of martial maneuvers was brilliant and well executed in ToB. I especially liked that they were all in on explicitly supernatural maneuvers and had high level maneuvers like Perfect Strike that let martial characters actually perform on par with casters at those high...

Tome of Battle was a seminal work in D&D publishing. The singularly greatest supplement published for the entirety of WotC's run on 3e D&D and Paizo's run on Pathfinder. It spectacularly resolved the LFQW issue that rendered 3e irrevocably broken and flawed, and did so in a way that...

5e is a good base if you make the proper adjustments. M&M and Spycraft 2.0 are great examples of cool games that took d20 and did some excellent things. I own the entire Spycraft d20 line, both 1.0, and 2.0 and the original Stargate d20 RPG. Savage Worlds is also a good option if you are going...

5e is a good base if you make the proper adjustments. M&M and Spycraft 2.0 are great examples of cool games that took d20 and did some excellent things. I own the entire Spycraft d20 line, both 1.0, and 2.0 and the original Stargate d20 RPG. Savage Worlds is also a good option if you are going...

Ha! Yes, well played. :) That is true, but is it all doom and gloom? Every victory you manage to eke out just delays the inevitable as chaos and corruption continually grow stronger? I'm not interested in that. But I Googled some of the setting lore and while its certainly still a brutal world...

I don't really know anything about the setting. So if its just Warhammer with a different coat of paint, I'll pass. But I've heard its different, so tell me what you think about it and why you like or don't like it.

This looks cool. I'm interested in checking it out. Never been a huge Warhammer guy. No matter what you do, Chaos will ultimately corrupt and kill you, so really why bother? I hate that whole nihilistic grim and gritty BS. I see it fetishized in a lot of OSR stuff too and I don't get the appeal...

Progressive improvement is NOT a defining characteristic of an 'RPG'. This is absolutely false. You can absolutely have an RPG that doesn't feature mechanical advancement as a thing. I've even run games like this before.

Apparently Barnes and Noble has an exclusive red cover variant edition that has some extra content that the black cover standard edition doesn't have. I don't know what's different between the two though...

A true classic, TMNT and Other Strangeness was the first non-D&D game I ever owned. I've always found Kevin Siembieda's writing, and the writing of Erick Wujcik, to be inspirational and evocative from a gaming standpoint. There is a sense of wonder and adventure that comes through in their...

Awesome! I loved Lone Wolf as a kid, and played through all the gamebooks that my local library had. I eventually purchased 1-10 with allowance money, but it was hard to find the others at the time. I still have my original copies. I also picked up the entire line of the d20 RPG, and own the new...

I dislike death spiral mechanics, and almost never play RPG's that use them. My ideal in playing RPG's is to be a larger than life hero. Whenever I hear buzzwords like "gritty" or "low-power" that is a cue that I probably won't like this game. Even beyond attrition based HP. I'd prefer a...

Whether Harmony Gold even still has a license to the Macross property at all is in question. Their original licensor Tatsunoko has been losing court cases in Japan over who owns the international copyright to Macross. Harmony Gold is a zombie company, propped up solely by clinging desparately to...