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As someone who has been laid off and will remain laid off for the next four months, I'm not dropping anything on Kickstarters for a while. (Or even new books, as I couldn't justify Wildemount and likely can't justify Theros.) I imagine most creators know this is a terrible time. No one is going...

Am curious. I do have a copy of the Rules Cyclopedia for collector's sake and have considered doing a quick test mini-campaign to see how things handle.

Never played, because, as someone who is only 40yo, I didn't start gaming until the '90s. But I have a collector's edition WotC put out a few years back and it might be fun to give it a try...

I remember discovering 3e by accident. I went to a local comic shop and saw a display with the PHB. "OMFG WTF there's a 3rd Edition?!?" I came back a week later after payday and bought the core rulebooks. I loved it and was super happy with how it took the rules of 2e and made them consistent...

I've mused about that myself. I've considered rerolling damage or rerolling 1s. Or a +1 to damage but not attacks. It can be tricky. I've listened to some design podcasts and read the books a bunch, and have been homebrewing for years. It's just a learning process. Trying something, seeing if...

Perhaps the crystals are continually growing and when they get to big, bits of them crack and fall off? Do the dragons have control over the people who live in their territory? Dragon overlords or emperors? Do people measure time and eras based on the dominant dragons. Which ahem dragon age...

This is where I will direct you to Google Maps to actually find out how big 1000 miles is. Because you just described a flat disc with a diameter the distance between Los Angeles and Detroit. The "ocean" in the middle is really more of a large saline sea, possibly smaller than the...

Done a lot of thought on worldbuilding. (So much so I've written a book on it.) So happy to give some input. Sounds good so far, and solves the problem of water running over the edge. A "saucer" shaped world. This is where I start to question you. Gently. As a rule, the more funky changes...

Monsters with high resistances have a higher CR because of that. When you can bypass the resistances of some enemies they are far, far easier to defeat than their CR implies. Especially at low levels. At high level the game assumes you either have magic, can make weapons magic via spells, or...

Huh. Read it earlier today. Came back to read the comments and missed the update. That's neat of WotC to do. And a nice boon for DnDBeyond.

It still says the 2nd on DnDBeyond too. Easy money the digital partners will delay as well: they just haven't been able to update things just yet. Likely because WotC hadn't planned on making the announcement today but was pushed to action by fans noticing the change on Amazon.

4e is different from PF, but I imagine a lot of people swapped from 3e to 4e, found they disliked 4e, and moved to PF. Or back to 3e. But, as you say, the similarities between games really depend on the sample size and other games compared. Comparing 2e, 3e, 4e, PF, and PF2 and the games seem...

Just wanted to bring up that PF didn't just have a single huge spike at launch, and grew in popularity over time, and its best sales years were likely 2011 or 2012. And it potentially pulled some fans from 4e during said growth, which had been questioned earlier. It will be interesting to see...

You are correct that Defensive Fighting Style wouldn't apply. The UA warforged is strong. There's a reason they changed it for the final book. Adding proficiency is potent.

The 10th level subclass feature of barbarian subclasses tends to be a ribbon: a bit of flavour or a utility power that doesn't increase the character's effectiveness in combat. Storm's Fury. This might work best as an ability you can trigger on a hit once per turn. But by making it hit all...

Plain language. Is it a spell using a slot? Does it affects a creature other than you? If yes, it can benefit from Blessed Healer. If it was not meant to work with mass spells targeting you it would have read "When you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that restores hit points and you...

We DO know that the 2009 PF1 Core Rulebook had the largest print run of anything Paizo released and immediately sold out. And that the second larger print run also sold out within a year. The third print run, which was larger than both combined sold out after a couple years. Each year had a new...

I mused about that after posting. Because even an aggressive twice monthly play schedule is lucky to get through an AP each year, if not 18 months. New APs will always have to compete with old. It becomes harder to sell a third Runelord focused AP or get people exited about the new AP...

Tempting to make them like morlocks/grimlocks, or the creepy dudes from The Descent. All pale and using echolocation.

VTT metrics are a little skewed, as Roll20 is grouping all editions of CoC, really boosting numbers. But CoC and inSANe are apparently huge in Korea, which likes it's horror and one-shots. (I forget where I heard that though...) Giantslayer was notoriously not good, but they've done some...