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Some additional details are really needed for this to be a useful review. Which options are lineage? Which are classes? Are some of them modifications to existing classes? Are there some feats that stand out? How do these player options compare to or add to what's in the core book? How about the...

The latest release date on our Amazon pre-orders is the19th so some people may have a copy next week. Screen refreshes and I see Enevhar already mentioned it above - ah well!

A few points to add to the excellent points made above: 1) The forced movement aspect cannot be overstated - push, pull, slide ... all made terrain and positioning significant. Push that enemy into the lave pit or over the cliff edge, pull this enemy that's vulnerable to fire into the zone the...

Bronze dragons are a big deal in the Dragonriders of Pern books which would have been floating around the popular zeitgeist when the game was being written. Might've been a factor there.

I think a 5E Star Wars adaptation is unlikely as it would have to go back to Lucasfilm for approval alongside whatever new activity they undertake for the existing line. Plus if the prior d20 Star Wars line wasn't profitable enough at WOTCs scale, I'm not sure a new one, even with the...

<snip> You seem to be following a fallacy that equates tabletop RPG design to technological development which is just not how it works. Tabletop RPG design is mostly driven by personal tastes, not some universally recognized progression towards "modern" or even "simpler" design. Not everyone...

Pretty sure Ptolus touts itself as a conversion or update of the prior edition - I don't think you or anyone else had to do anything to find that out. I mean do all of those games release something new every week? Do you not see a difference between say, an adventure conversion with stat...

"You are being disingenuous." "...you are skewing the conversation here" "...if with a real slant." You make an awful lot of assumptions about motivation here. How is my post "disingenuous"? I've been on here a long time - I'm not trolling you. I saw a response to something that seemed way off...

Someone raises a point about one of the items in your column this week and we get: It's not my full-time job I don't work for these companies How would I know OK - but you are writing this column. Would you agree that there is a difference between something "new" and something that is a...

I like 13th Age but how helpful is a quickstart with no introductory scenario? Even if you could just add in something from a freeRPG day with pregens it seems like it would up the utility quite a bit.

I am amazed when I see regular discussion that 5th edition D&D is too complicated. I'm not saying anyone is wrong - it just blows my mind that the simplest version of D&D since 2E, at least, is still viewed as "complex". It's a good example of just how much of a difference different experiences...

Yes, it's been around about ten years now and is written by the guy who wrote Mutants and Masterminds so it is very solid. It's looser than M&M but it is a lot of fun. My take on it over the last ten years: http://towerofzenopus.blogspot.com/search/label/Icons

Lol - Did you read the article? "Aberrant set itself up as an engine to tell superhero stories different from contemporaries like Champions or Mutants & Masterminds."

First up - M&M wasn't a "contemporary" of Aberrant when it launched in 1999 because it didn't come out until 2002. Brave New World was a contemporary with a fairly divergent setting history and a similar take in some ways but it never seemed to be as popular. Champions was winding down a...

I would heartily disagree - contributor, yes, "third founder", no. Zeb Cook had more influence over D&D during that time than Hickman did and was credited as the author on second edition on top of that.

"The impossibility of Point of Light settings" Cites historical research. Ignores fact that magic spells and abilities and items are not real. Ignores fact that fantasy races do not exist. Ignores fact that most fantasy RPG monsters do not exist. Ignores fact that fantasy deities, typically...

I see a lot of other conversation happening but this ... this is infuriating : "We created this business." No. No you didn't. In fact none of the people running this new TSR have created much of anything. On top of being clueless and everything else you've managed to demonstrate this past week...

In a game that's supposed to be about interesting choices "forcing the player to consider a range of options" is a feature, not a bug. I mean ... because it's what that monster or NPC would do? How is it "slowing the game down" if you've chosen to use it in your campaign?

Well usually the goal is to play through something like what you would see in a comic book run, a superhero movie, or -and probably the best example - something you would see in an episode of "Justice League". It's not about loot. It's not about powering up with items you find. It's about doing...

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