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Given the existence of things like AoN, there is basically no reason to pirate any of the Pathfinder rules. If you don't want to pay, just use AoN for Starfinder. They have all the Starfinder rules text from every release. Only thing they don't have is encounter and story text from the APs. The...

Something that goes a little underappreciated in this industry is the difference in results between a writer and project manager who is decent and one who is excellent and experienced. Abomination Vaults benefited from being the first 2e AP to benefit directly from James Jacob's adventure...

Some thoughts from someone that runs the Beginner Box and Abomination Vaults on Foundry: -If you haven't looked at them already, I would highly advise using the official Foundry implementations of both the Beginner Box and Abomination Vaults. I have been extremely pleased with their quality...

Same, and I may wait even further for the Foundry release since that's where I would run it.

You can use the Smoldering Sword from the beginner box.

This bothers me as well, though it's tempered by being pro wrestling. I'm glad the moderators are getting more active about curbing any rhetoric that includes excessive and needless violent imagery. The best way to make a good argument unappealing is to dial up the intensity of the rheotric...

Wow. This stuff is so insanely insensitive it almost sounds like some kind of parody. Who in their right mind would put this into print thinking "yes, these are statements that strangers on the internet will find agreeable enough." It's no wonder WotC wants to make it clear they have nothing...

The simplest solution is to play Magus, choose Dexterity as your key ability score, and choose the Starlit Span hybrid study which focuses on bows. Magus' entire shtick is weapon attacks, self buffs and using spells/cantrips to make your attacks stronger. The Magus class is in Secrets of...

I would not assume the whole medium of illustration will stagnate and die because better automation tools are being created. Consumer and employer expectations are a moving target, not a static quantity. Think of it like this; even now, the idea that a semi-professional consumer like a GM...

I should back up where I got this perception of the public reception for the book. Here's the first results I get for a search of "Spelljammer" on Youtube: And then Reddit: The criticisms I see repeated among the nay-sayers are rather consistent; lack of space ship rules (the central feature...

Given the cool reception on Spelljammer I hope they aren't seriously considering even more niche settings beyond what they already promised. Quite frankly, they aren't very good about making the <200 page setting revival books go far in terms of value or interesting material. If they want to...

I would be extremely surprised if the number of options presented will be actually overwhelming. When there are games like 3.5, PF1e, and PF2e that were all big successes with their large amount of feats, it beggars belief that the new D&D edition would deliberately exceed that amount of choice...

Obviously. I've seen the same. It looks like overall medium literacy beyond "current edition D&D" is at an all time high in the online spaces I'm in and the FLGS I run games in. I think people just like getting caught up in the hype of playtests an edition changes, because right now there...

I have to be honest, I like most of the changes in the playtest. The two I really do not like are the crit changes and the name of the game; One D&D is a dumb weasel term for a harebrained marketing campaing trying to tell us the game is "beyond editions", whatever that means. Everyone knows...

On this forum even. I concur with it as well. Paizo should also be setting aside more money to make their brand known, they did almost nothing to promote 2e among non-Pathfinder players when it came out. They're a staple of the industry and things like GenCon, but that's peanuts compared to...

I mean fair enough, as long as there's a store/space for my hobby they can have theirs. I definitely know stores like this. Sometimes it's because it's an MTG den that literally does not care their shelves of other things are skewed, disorganized or have damaged goods, sometimes the local...

Stores of that old school model have lost my business. The store I run games at is much newer and model themselves on having active communities for D&D and Wargames (not just Warhammer, I see way more Star Wars and Battletech being played anecdotally). Given the explosive rise of RPGs in...

Man, even when Pathfinder is #2 stores don't want to carry it. Maybe it's just the few FLGS in my area, but even during the days of Pathfinder dominance there was some kind of antipathy they held toward it. Perhaps the ICv2 numbers are inflated by Paizo's online sales/PDFs which don't...