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You may not realize that 5e's XP and advancement system has some inherent problems. I didn't until I did some number crunching. The biggest problem is that encounter difficulty does not always correlate with the xp payout for the encounter. I explain the problems and propose a solution in this...

Well, that's assuming you're concerned about keeping the Realms "current". Personally, with the mess they made of it in 3e and 4e (and now in 5e trying to "fix" it), if I were running in the Realms, I'd roll back the the 1e Realms.

I just released a new episode of my podcast, Game Master's Journey, in which I give a detailed discussion and review of the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide for D&D. This book is made for a very specific player, and if that player is you, then I think you'll be very happy with it. However, if...

There are a lot of problems with these statistics, many of which have been already mentioned. When your "Others" category is so high up, that's a clear sign you need to split that category up. Others is meaningless in data interpretation. There's also way too much bias in the categories--how...

Greetings fellow gamers. I just posted a new episode of my podcast, Game Master's Journey, in which I discuss game preparation and the book Never Unprepared by Phil Vecchione. Even after over 20 years of game mastering experience, I learned a lot from this book. I will be doing more of these...

My newest podcast, Game Master's Journey, is an evolution of my very successful Numenera podcast, GM Intrusions. I wanted to branch out into other systems. I have a large number of episodes focusing in on D&D. All my episodes are aimed at helping DMs improve their craft and have more fun doing...

I agree that the system doesn't focus enough on exploration. The game claims to be about exploration, but the majority of character abilities are combat related. I talked about this in detail (along with some numbers) in an episode of my GM Intrusions podcast I called Discovery Through Combat.

The guidelines for the difficulties given in the book are pretty easy to grasp, in my opinion. 0 - routine - anyone can do this basically every time 1 - simple - most people can do this most of the time 2 - standard - typical task requiring focus, but most people can usually do this 3 -...

5 out of 5 rating for Numenera Core Rulebook The Numenera corebook is beyond excellent in every measurable way. Because of the excellent binding and thick, high quality paper, my book looks good as new after over a year of hard use. It's laid out very similarly to a good travel guide, which...

Sorry, I was talking about a beginning character. A level 1 character isn't likely to have a +14 modifier on a roll, and will usually fail with a roll of 3. A beginning tier 1 character in Numenera, however, will often be able to succeed with a roll of 3.

I will do my best! Difficulties in Numenera range from 0-10. Your target number on the d20 is 3x the difficulty. You don't have to roll for difficulty 0. Difficulty 1 you need a 3 or higher, difficulty 2 a 6 or higher, and so on. You can use Effort to reduce the difficulty of any...

I don't know that in Numenera you fail less often, though you should be rolling less often. The point of that section is that in Numenera, a roll of a 3 can oftentimes be a success, where in d20 it would seldom be a success. However, I would guess that you do fail less often in Numenera, or at...

Thanks! So glad you like it!

Monte Cook made a great post about running Cypher System games on his site. I learned a lot from this post. I talked about this post in detail on episode 18 of my Numenera podcast, GM Intrusions.

I'm looking for Numenera players who can get to Bothell, WA. If you're interested, please email me at lexstarwalker at gmail. Thank you.

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Uh...not really. Average of $15 on Amazon with free shipping comes to $90 for the entire AP. Plus, you don't have to buy the whole thing at once. Also, the books you get are full color wtih glossy pages. Most other modules I've seen are black and white on normal paper.

I have recently moved to Bothell and finally have an apartment big enough to host in. I'm wanting to get a Pathfinder game started. Let me know if you're interested.

That AP sounds interesting. I think one huge mega-dungeon would get really old. Six large dungeons with different themes and critters would probably be a lot more fun. Yeah, the AP will end up costing almost as much (around $90 if you get it on Amazon), but at least you don't have to buy it...

Thanks for the suggestions. Rappan Athuk and Slumbering Tsar both look interesting, but I'm not willing to pay $100 for an adventure. If anyone has recomendations that are more reasonably priced, I'd love to hear them. :) Has anyone run or played the Shattered Star AP? That one looks...