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If you're wondering if you should go to Gamehole Con: yes. Yes you should.

No, but I deal enough with people who know very little about it so I sort of have to. It's like the soda/pop versus "Coke" issue in different parts of the country.

I just want to point out that you can check out Dawnbury Days if you're looking for a Pathfinder2 cRPG. It is very basic, but I used it to teach several of my players how to play PF2 and they have all enjoyed it, so don't let the lack of polish put you off. Now this one? Oh, I'm a sucker for...

I've just started reading this thread, so I apologize if it's been addressed. I remember what you said: Initially, 5E was viewed as a return to form for old-school play. I believe this was because it was a "keep the lights on" edition to start with, and the devs were very much trying to attract...

My head officially hurts on this one. So it looks like the consensus is four attacks?

I think this is a really important point. Since the beginning, the devs for 4E were talking about "getting to the fun" and "15 minutes of fun in a four-hour session." I think there was a lot of discussion of getting some of that feeling of dropping to the fun parts right away. Because if the...

I had August in the pool of when this would happen, thinking this announcement would coincide with Gen Con. I was too conservative! Edited to add: the guy who won did the equivalent of saying "one dollar" on The Price is Right.

I think you just have to be a certain age. I was just a kid when I read the books, and they're part of the reason I enjoyed D&D so much. And for the kids out there: check out these books! Every now and then they have a sale for the Kindle edition of a multi-book set that's incredibly cheap.

As someone of a grognard age who doesn't identify with a lot of the typical grognard views, I think they do matter. A lot of media franchises have decided that people beyond a certain age aren't their target audience. I guess I have to ask, "How's that working out for you?" I had initially heard...

I absolutely love the layout for the Free League books I have, so I'm excited about it. When I see Mork Borg, I have this instinctive reaction. Never have I had books recommended to me that I bounced harder off. For that grognards thread, this is where my grognard shows.

Unfortunately, the games I play in use the hour short rest, so we don't take them very often. It's difficult because that changes the power level for the classes who are built around that mechanic. If you have a small number of resources that reset on a short rest, you're much less effective if...

This is very interesting to me. Coming from someone who has watched the show but not read the series, I may have a biased opinion, but I find it a potential for something different in Superhero RPGs. The thing I find about Invincible is that it plays out like a fairly typical superhero universe...

It sure seems like they think they know something. I hope that's correct. I do think that with the changes I see in the demo now, I'd still pick the game up. The "new rules" angle isn't as interesting to me as a better engine.

Skills and Powers 2E.

My goodness there's a lot of grumpiness out there for this game. I have read through all the betas, played a sample campaign, and while it wasn't for my group, there's a ton of great stuff in the game. If I had a game to run, I'd strongly consider it (at least the last beta I saw). I am...

I think what would server 5.5E well would be to have a serious discussion about how the game plays differently at different tiers of play. At what level are different abilities or powers taken as a given? At what level should you expect to have flight available for extended periods? How about...

I think that the reason we don't see as many high level campaigns is two-fold: first, people just start games at level one. I've been in a few games that went against the grain but as a rule, you start at the beginning. At most it's level three since that's where you get subclasses. The other...

Absolutely see that now.:oops: I hope this does well, but I'm less interested now. I already have games I could use for this purpose and I think a completely different system will be a harder sell with people who are just starting out in the hobby. But with that said, good luck!

I think this is a really good idea. Unfortunately I don't think that the core 5E chassis is especially good for this use, but I will be happy to look at what they do with it. I think that WotC wants to move in this direction with D&D itself from the core dungeon bashing experience, so I think...

For me, it's why my group wants to play right now. We just finished a Feng Shui game, and one of the GMs wanted to pick up our 5E game, so we're back at it. Before that we played a Daggerheart game. What comes next? Don't know. We aren't using 5.5E and I expect we won't even touch it until we...