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Imho attrition style combat in 5e becomes a boring slog long before the game breaks at lvl 10-12. That's the main reason why me and my table has gone to Savage Pathfinder for D&Dish fantasy. More build diversity, social conflict rules, dramatic task etc are cherries on top. We focus on roleplay...

My point was to show that you can make a game with faithful 5E mechanics for very little money, instead of being lazy Larian style and put a shallow 5E varnish on top of an existing non-D&D system with non-D&D mechanics. I have never made any claims that Solasta is a glorious, tripple-A game...

Yes, since you find that my plural s is worth so many letters and semantic nitpicking to contradict, you are right, there is one game. With BG3 on the horizon I guess not many studios found it worth to take the market fight. But as you seem to have trouble extracting my point, I'll try to be...

Solasta: Crown of the Magister is a game with 5e ruleset that has done a pretty good job with a fraction of Larians budget.

It's not like the BG3 development haven't cost a fortune in time and money already. Freeing up time to create that long and involved story may be moot when you play through that story with DOS2 mechanics instead of 5e feel.

I'm sure Larian can make a great Larian game. That doesn't mean I find it a good BG game. If I want to read funny and extremely empathic Discworld fantasy I don't buy a GRR Martin book.

Will I get this game down the line? Probably, if it ever get a full release, just because I love this video game genre. But I really don't get Larian. As we've seen in other games, 5e is a straightforward system with mechanics that can translate well to video game format. So with the BG...

My table play via Foundry, but I still try to keep stuff relatively simple. Too much flash and video gameyness distract the players, and sucks valuable prep time for me as GM. So no, I don't want or need a 3D vtt. But sure, if and when there's a low-cost, low-system req, easy to prep 3D VTT...

As a GM, I usually prep my campaigns with a Chekov's gun and loose thoughts about when it could be fired. But there's also guns - prepped or improvised - that belong to other folks. And the partys actions, whims and wants decide which ones will get fired and the overall impact of the shot.

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I did end 5e with our 2-year campaign finale a couple of weeks ago. The premisses of One D&D is pretty meh to me and my table, and the calendar for the coming years is filled with Savage Worlds/Savage Pathfinder, Traveller and CoC. One never knows, but my guess is that our group will pass all...

Fun is fun however you come by it. But I use myself for those random story elements. I'm definitely not mathematically exact in my randomness if that is what one look for, but like to think I can create more interesting options on the spot from unlimited situational inputs than a static table.

I hate random tables during play. For me, it takes away a lot of the fun of being a GM, as I love to improvise and riff of my players actions and choices in-game. And my players are very good at building suboptimal characters on their own, focusing on roleplaying and interesting concepts, rather...

I would love it if WotC had novels they would try to sell :)

Two of my players are lore nerds. No matter what system we play, they crave their lore fix. So I give it to them shrug.

I agree that a lot of the messages are more relevant than ever. But sadly you are probably right, the og cyberpunk is a passé genre to investors and a younger audience. But I still want it, darnit, even if I reluctantly accept that Johnny Mnemonic is the best we will get from older Gibson material.

I got two: William Gibsons Neuromancer trilogy Peter F Hamiltons Nights Dawn trilogy Then the screen can go black for all I care.

I don't motivate it. NPC's and monsters get the abilities I think will bring appropriate challenge and the most fun to the table.

In my recently finished two-year campaign Orcus and Ilsensine cooperated, and toward the finale I sent 400.000ish undead illithids and various normal undead from Thay moving like a grasshopper swarm toward the west, mowing down all resistance. But that was just for threat illustration and to put...

This isn't really a problem since I have a permanent table of players, and I present campaigns that both they and I find interesting, and if not we talk about modifikations to make the campaign. But there are almost always character restrictions in play, that's kind of a given, no matter what...