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I too never found the Essentials classes necessarily 'bad' or a 'wrong headed' direction to take classes. A variety of the AEDU structure could allow for some interesting classes. Take the Skald: two daily powers at LVL 1, but you can only use 1, and they operate as a kind of encounter-long...

The Delver's Guide to Beast World posits something somewhat adjacent: the world itself (through reasons unknown -- maybe ancient magic? rip in the cosmos? mad mage experiment gone wrong?) causes fully stocked dungeons with all of its denizens to come into and out of existence. The...

I was running the Bloodstone Lands in 4e* and so absolutely wanted to make it to the last module (H4, Throne of Bloodstone) to get the players up to epic just for those Epic Destinies. I too loved the "Once per day, when you die..." abilities, I mean, what a great opening condition. :D * The...

We recently started a 4e game in my main group and it's been great, both in general but for me especially to return to it after 10 years and rediscovering many of the things that made 4e sing. In addition, one of the players had never played 4e back when it was out (his group at the time...

The Warren uses something similar called Threats. :)

While MHR is out of print, if you get the Cortex Prime rules there is a hack that recreates MHR-style games available here. :) (And, of note to this thread, character creation rules begin on page 12.) One thing (among many) that MHR does very well and that I really appreciate is model...

Do you mean the blurb on the back cover? If so, Grognard is only the name of a tank unit in the game (fielded by alternate history France) and I'm not sure that they were trying to use it as much of a selling point other than as a pun/one-liner type joke/nod towards the term long used in the...

Wow, that brings back so many memories. Despite never having played myself, the board and components of that game are burned into my memory. :D That's hilarious. It feels a bit like the designer had not much interest in that section (or that type of character) and wanted to handwave things...

Oh interesting... I never knew the 'tactical' Aliens boardgame that the members of the Strategy Club in university played hundreds of hundreds of times (it was the go-to game to fill time) was made by the same company. Clearly the group loved it, even though they mostly lost over and over...

Again, very interesting! I've played in a pair of FATE Core campaigns (including one we're now running in Cortex Prime and using approaches) but never in Accelerated so never saw how they wouldn't mesh well within the FATE framework. While trying to not derail this thread too much, how was it...

That's interesting -- I've used Approaches in a couple of campaigns now (albeit using them in Cortex and not FATE) and they've worked very well at our table. As for "worst" RPGs, I would add to the list Phoenix Command: purportedly an RPG though really it's a ballistic resolution system where...

I have the book at home on my shelves and haven't read it in years. Tonight I will do so in her honour. She was a giant in shaping our great hobby and will be missed. Condolences to her loved ones.

I wouldn't blame the AI (it's not sentient, after all... at least, not yet (cue ominous music!)) but instead the companies that made them and how they trained them plus how they're releasing them into the world of the taboo topic. ((FWIW, for myself, any product I release for sale I would...