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I can see the argument that it lacks nuance, but saying that rolling two dice is slower than trying to count up which bonuses to add and which penalties to subtract doesn't make sense to me at all. I suppose if you've played 3.0/3.5 for years, that sort of thing might seem like second nature...

That would only make sense if one person could vote for something more than once.

Well, yeah, that too! It's come a long way from the (admittedly charming) doodles in the Little Brown Books.

Read Morrus's post from yesterday (#56) about the caching issue.

The first version I attempted to play was 4e, and I couldn't really wrap my head around it. I heard a lot of people say it was really dumbed down, but for some reason, I had difficulty getting it. When the basic rules for 5e came out, however, it really clicked for me. I'd say it's more on the...

I know that my position isn't everyone's position, but I'm absolutely fine with their release schedule. As it is, my group is only two sessions into Hoard of the Dragon Queen, and since we can only meet up once a month—sometimes less—I imagine the next storyline after Rage of Demons will have...

I included the art direction as one of my choices because I absolutely love how inclusive it is. Women wear practical armor, and people of color stand alongside traditional (for D&D) Euro/Caucasian-looking characters as brothers and sisters in heroism! (Speaking of inclusivity, I also love the...

Upon reading the headline, my first thought was, "Gee, I hope not! I just dropped some cash for hardcover versions of Swords & Wizardry White Box and White Star!" I only just played my first OSR games—the very two mentioned above—a few months ago at a convention, and I was blown away by how...

An updated version of the PDF was just added to DriveThruRPG. Rather than replacing the original file, however, DTRPG has both files available. The updated version has the exact same page count, but the file size is almost twice as large. Is it just a higher res version of the book?

Aw, man! I saw "Supers" in the headline and thought there might actually be news about Hazard Studio's Supers! Revised RPG.

Did FFG ever offer the beginner game character folios as PDFs? I'd like to use them with a couple different groups, so I don't want people to actually write on them.

Yeah, I'm going to have to say that Greyhawk doesn't strike me as different enough to really demand it to be officially converted before something like Dark Sun, Ravenloft, or Eberron. I'm not saying that those who are clamoring for it are wrong, but approaching it from the perspective of...

The guys at The Tome Show made a comment that I agree with, that WotC should work on a completely new campaign setting created specifically for 5e. What I'd personally love to see is a 5e-based space opera setting, something more straightfaced than Spelljammer. Honestly, I'd be satisfied with...

I'd actually like to see a short story or two set in Primeval Thule! I don't know how feasible that is, but being a fan of all the things that have inspired the setting, it seems a no-brainer that I'd enjoy fiction that takes place in that world.

Zaukrie, I think people just want to be sure that this will actually happen and won't be shut down by WOTC for legal reasons.

To those wondering how the old OGL can be used to produce products that are compatible with 5E, the retro-clone Dark Dungeons provides an excellent explanation of just how the law and the OGL works. The full text of Dark Dungeons is available for free from the Gratis Games website here.

I've been waiting for this! After hearing the Sasquatch folks plug this setting (occasionally described as "Conan vs. Cthulhu) in several podcast interviews, I kept hoping they'd eventually get around to making a 5E version. I will be backing this Kickstarter!

I'm really hoping White Star catches on outside of OSR circles. I think it's a pretty great tool kit for running space opera games, and the rules are exceptionally easy to learn.

Has the critical failure rule changed since the release of the public beta playtest of Mutant Chronicles? Here's what that book says about critical failures: Critical failure occurs when a character does not generate enough successes to pass the test, and also rolls one or more natural 20s. In...