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Out of curiosity, when the specialist wizard says it gets “one free reroll” when casting spells from their school, is that every time they cast? Once a day? Seems rather non-specific.

FYI, this paizo blog post says the penalties for multiple attacks with agile weapons are -4/-8, not -2/-4.

Space combat is designed to give everyone a chance to do things. You each take a role aboard ship (captain, engineer, science, gunner, etc) and each role has actions they can take during each turn.

Yes, exactly. Nobody said these were ground breaking, just that they were different from Pathfinder. Also, I think it's oversimplifying to say that HP and Stamina are just bloodied and surges, that ignores (as I understand it) the fact that different kinds of healing restore different things...

The goal is apparently to have the core rulebook do a better job of teaching you the game than the Pathfinder core rulebook, thus alleviating some of the need for a starter box. That said, it also seems to be partly just "launching a new game is an expensive risk, and everything you add on top...

I think the more interesting changes are actually the ones not in that blog post (although I'm in love with the HP -> HP/SP/Resolve split, I think it's really significant). They seem to be going out of their way to rebalance the martial/caster split a bit. The casters in the core rulebook are...

On one hand, that art is spectacular. On the other hand, I prefer landscape orientation GM screens, this one is portrait orientation. I'm not sure I'd enjoy having something that tall in front of my when I GM. I guess I'll leave it off my preorder and wait till I can see one in person before I...

The spoilers Paizo has been releasing on their blog include some pretty substantial differences.

Yeah, their website has been royally screwed up all week. For me it's weirdly busted in that I can access it just fine via my phone, but not from my laptop, even though both of them are on the same wifi network at my house. My desktop at work is just fine though. The techies at Paizo...

Keep in mind that technically you don't have to start at the beginning of a hardcover, or if you do start at the beginning there's no particular reason you have to start at the appropriate level (assuming you're within the level range of the book in question). There's nothing stopping you from...

AL is the official organized play program of D&D, it's run by WotC, it's admins are paid by WotC for the work they do, every AL release is approved by someone employed by WotC. It's a WotC program. Now there are plenty of people who organize AL games at local stores, game days, conventions...

The adventures from that season are not closely linked to each other (beyond all being set in Phlan), so you can play whatever one you want (assuming your characters are the appropriate level).

It's somewhere in the second half of Out of the Abyss.

Not according to the AL rules. You need an official certificate in your hand for it to count, just knowing that the certs exist and define the rarity is not the same thing. Yes, this is an absurd situation that could easily be fixed in any number of ways, but for whatever reason WotC chooses...

Also Lightbringer (the +1 Mace with extra abilities) and Hew (the +1 Battleaxe that does max damage vs plants). Those are Uncommon on the certs, but Unique without them, because they have abilities not listed on the "quirks" tables in the DMG.

This is certainly true, but LMoP is actually one of the edge cases where they'd be really nice to have, since there are a bunch of items from that adventure that lack defined rarities in the book. That means if you don't have the cert they can't be traded at all. It also costs downtime days to...

Nope. WotC has shown no interest in making certificates for older DDAL/DDEX adventures (prior to season 5) available, and they've essentially stopped producing them entirely for hardcovers. The only way to get legit certificates for older stuff like LMoP is to get them from a store that still...

This is part of why WotC is so heavy on the retro stuff in their new HCs. It's also why 5e feels a lot like older editions, even if there are some sacred cows they could slay in order to make the game better in the abstract, if it moves too far from the old stuff then people coming back to the...

Sure, but if you stick to the same 2 big adventure releases per year and make 1 of them into a non-realms release you're talking about 50% of your total content for the year being outside that core shared setting you're trying to get people to buy into. I expect the Curse of Strahd style...

It's not just that it would require a larger staff, it's that precisely this sort of splitting the player base's attention between multiple settings was a big part of why TSR eventually had to sell itself to WotC to survive. It's not the only thing, another chunk of the blame goes to the fact...