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Did I miss something? As far as I know Legend of the Five Rings has always been owned by AEG. Yes, 3.0 Oriental Adventures licensed the setting as a default oriental setting, but every other book for L5R has been produced by AEG. It is true that WotC can and will dump IP, but it would take a...

I believe it looks at the overall brand sales in hobby channel (IE, game stores) markets. The APG this summer was probably a big spike for Pathfinder. I suspect next quarter D&D will be back on top with all the essentials releases. Yes, it is only one industry indicator. It still is surprising...

I've always wanted to run an inverted Keep on the Borderlands. You are innocent orc/kobold/hobgoblins banding together to defend yourselves from invaders from that pesky human fortress of doom. After fighting off a few raids, take the fight to them and stop them at their source. Think of the...

For a historical perspective on ICv2's trends: Fall 2008 1. D&D 2. 40k RPGs (Dark Heresy/Rogue Trader) 3. World of Darkness 4. Shadowrun 5. Pathfinder Winter 08-09 1. D&D 2. 40k 3. WoD 4. Star Wars 5. Shadowrun Q2 2009 1. D&D 2. 40k 3. WoD 4. Song of Fire & Ice 5. Shadowrun Q3 2009 1. D&D 2...

ICv2 has a fairly steady track record and are definitely unbiased. They've been around quite a while and have good channels of information. Is it as good as hard sales numbers? No. Is anyone using the numbers to try to claim that WotC is dying? (Probably, but most of us will discount those...

Everything before Council of Thieves was 3.5. As a GM running 3.5 adventures in Pathfinder, I find the minimal conversion I need to do is easy on the fly. Of course, I'm not one of those picky people who recrunch stat blocks and go "OMG, his hp are 3 points higher than they should be!". I would...

Have you gotten to look at an essentials book? The font is definitely large, and backgrounds are white. If they were priced $10 more I'd hate them, as they seem to waste so much space. As it is, they are digest because the content is spread between several books. I'm tempted to pick up a Rules...

I can say I use 3.X material in my Pathfinder game with 2E Planescape adventures. Although more and more of my 3.X material is from 3PP (Arcana Evolved, Book of Experimental Might, Secrets of Pact Magic, Tome of Horrors, etc.) I think I'm a neo-grognard. I like new stuff. I like old stuff. I...

I am fairly certain that this is as good as it gets.

Wrong kind of hack Is it bad that you made me want to play an RPG based on NetHack? It was itself based on some form of d&d, but of course evolved into its own thing over time.

I'm way late to this party, but I'll tell you why I'm bothered by Wizards pulling their back catalog of PDFs. Back in the height of 3.5 I was an active customer playing D&D. I am also fond of old modules. Several times I picked up PDFs of older modules that I never had a chance to get...

There's a big difference between the store's owner and a random employee. My local game store is actually a comic shop. The employees usually know quite a bit about comics, but don't always know about games. Sometimes I'll ask them about a game and they'll simply tell me they don't really know...

I just happened to be browsing through my collection last night and I think I found a perfect example of "producing too much stuff". The Poor Wizard's Almanac. Writing an Almanac for Mystara is not a bad idea. It collected a lot of setting material together into an easy reference guide. So did...

Descent is pretty solid, although it doesn't have the same Horror feel that a good Ravenloft BG should have. There are others but Descent is the one I've played a lot of. I'm curious to try the Ravenloft game, but I suspect there are several other games on my list to acquire that will be ahead...

Settings Thread I started the thread to see how tied to Golarion Pathfinder players are. When I compiled some numbers I noticed Greyhawk was in the top 5 so I figured people here might be curious. Most people do say they use homebrew modifications, or bring stuff from other settings into their...

Short answer: Yes. It is still relevant. I did an informal poll over at Pazio about what settings people are playing using Pathfinder. Top 5 Pathfinder Settings: 1. Homebrew (17.8%) 2. Golarion (16.2%) 3. Forgotten Realms (13.9%) 4. Eberron (8.1%) 5. Greyhawk (6.9%) Other settings (37.07%)...

Talislanta. Thankfully it will live on in PDF forever!

Whatever the game is, it'll be a new team and new code. So while we may hope that the dev team learns lessons from previous games, the only thing they'll really have in common is the brand name. (IE, compare Baldur's Gate with Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance) I'm actually rather surprised that...

RPGs are Thriving Now is a great time to be a gamer. Seriously, there are tons of great games being produced. If you haven't tried something new in the last 6 months, you need to expand your horizons. During the peak of the "Everything must be d20" I used to lament about the lack of alternative...

The poll for editions for Red Eye of Azathoth ends Friday, so if you want to swing things toward BRP/CoC you'd have to join and vote now! That being said, if it ends up being PRPG with NPC classes, I think it will easily convert to True20/Shadows of Cthulhu. In that case I will likely write an...