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Because Kelsey liked it better that way. The point is that this isn't an outlier design feature of SD - other successful games do similar things.

Each crawling round is a chance for each PC to do a single thing. It's so that the PCs have a limited number of actions they can accomplish before checking for additional danger. The Black hack is another OSR game which uses both a real-time timer and also cares about crawling rounds.

they know the fans will do the work for them for free

A particular 3PP that I enjoy is planning to fully update their offerings to 5.5 and publish new products for 5.5 in the future - which means essentially I won't be able to use anything else they put out. Which sucks for me.

I think 5e is a better game than 5.5

Obviously the morally correct choice is to slaughter and pillage the Keep instead.

What can I say, they won - and so did we.

Putting aside the fact that what WotC did with the OGL was significantly more egregious than what Paizo did in this scenario. Paizo put something out publicly, immediately opened communications channels with major players with concerns (The pf2 Foundry team, for example), then put out a...

The license change was aligning Paizo with the industry standard used by most other ttrpg companies. To keep the CUP in addition to the FCP based on customer feedback is a great move for fans, and far more than Paizo should be expected to give.

Automatically updated with the specific exceptions of: class, subclass, race, background, feat. Most notably all spells and equipment will be updated, but this will also affect anything which hyperlinks to any rules elements updated in the 2024 rules (ex: grappling) Anything from a book that...

The UX is going to be painful on purpose in an attempt to force everyone to upgrade to the new books.

Anyways, reminder that you do not own anything digital unless you have it saved on your own hard drive and can access it without an internet connection. Further reminder that Piracy is Media Preservation.

Pathbuilder and Archives of Nethys both have excellent solutions to the remaster issue and are tiny, indie teams. The difference is that they care about user experience instead of just trying to extract as much money from as many people as possible.

If a digital product is not saved locally on your own hard drive and accessible offline, you don't own it.

not too late, they're still selling it

Spells are the most mechanically-structured thing 5e has so it makes sense that they're relying on them as often as possible to make interesting options.

Agree. If its a different game, I don't need or want it because I already like 5e. If its the same game, I don't need or want it because I already own it.

You have it backwards. Schools were a universal classification thing - wizards had to be adjusted as a result of removing schools. Alignment was a universal thing - Champions had to be adjusted as a result of removing alignment.

In addition to the above comment, additionally the Remaster made the following major changes: -Significantly reworked (3) classes: Alchemist, Oracle, Witch. -Renamed a number of spells, feats, items, monsters, abilities to avoid referencing specific OGL terms -Removed Ability Scores, using only...

The more I learn about 5.5 the more confident I am in my choice not to adopt anything from it.