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It sounds like you games are more lethal than mine. We're at level 20 with the same characters (they started at level 6 admittedly). Some temporary deaths, but they've had access to raise dead for a while.

Third party publisher here. (Here's our PF2e Adventures) We don't put level on the front cover, but we put it on the back for print books or the description for PDF books. I guess it just made more sense to me to have it there since that's where I go to actually decided if the book is something...

For my current campaign, I said that the characters had to already know at least two other characters. Then we did a "putting together the team" montage. Character A's hometown was under attack by dragon, and she went to her friend Character B. Character B signed up to help and new another...

Please don't hate me for this, but... I tried an episode and couldn't get into it. For the sake of this discussion though, I'm willing to give it another chance. Can you point me to an episode where the driving conflict of the episode is an internal conflict or a conflict between the PCs. (And...

I'm sad to see this. I was excited about what I heard of the "yes and" system. I don't think D&D capture the tone of Adventure Time well. I said something similar when the original announcement came out. Adventure Time had a lot of trappings of D&D, and it's obviously made by people who know...

My first two were easy: Enterprise X-Wing For third I had to think a little more, but I think the classic "flying saucer" which you can take whichever version of you want because it's seen across a range of media.

A few threads on high-level play recently got me thinking. As somebody who both loves high level play and also publishes stuff under the OGL, I'd like to cater more to high level play. I'm wondering what people who buy third-party products would like to see. Advice? Monsters? Adventures? Other?

I quite enjoy high level play, and I would be sad to see it go. Putting it in a separate book would be super awkward. What do you do whenever there's a new sublcass? Do you include the higher level abilities in a new book even though it's not part of "core?" do you release another high level...

On this, we can agree!

So this goes off topic into a bigger philosophy of game design but... I think that if a character sucks because the player didn't know the difference between 'block' and 'parry,' the game has bigger issues. For one thing I think in designing a game it should be impossible to make a character...

I'm going to disagree here. I think that character building should be one of the first chapters. I think there can be a quick intro that explains the premise of the game and maybe a few key terms, but very quickly after that. Why? Because that's how we get into the game. That's what I care...

So if I'm the fighter here, I say, "Thanks, I'm glad we have a wizard in the party." I don't say, "Oh man, I'm jealous that the wizard got to do that and I couldn't." The point is that for me, balance is more about balance of focus and balance of fun. The time that I think things are a problem...

I voted that I hadn't played it, thought that's technically not true. I did play a some WEG Starwars and Ghostbusters way back in the day, but my memories of the actual system are so hazy that I don't think I can give it a fair grade.

I think of the default setting as being their mostly for people who aren't all that interested in world building or are just getting started on things, and so it's helpful for those people to have. I think it's easy for people who want something else to ignore the default setting.

It comes down to this: Class/Level is more helpful at character creation/leveling up Alphabetically is more helpful during play. I lean towards helpful during play since more time is spent gaming this way. I also have played Exalted, which sorts its charms (magic powers) for character creation...

Not hard line at all. It seems like they just intend to play up the multiverse aspect of D&D in the 2024 release, and Planescape is a good way to connect that multiverse.

I've played a Monster Hearts campaign, plus a smattering of one-shots. I like the philosophy behind it and the fiction first style of play. I'm not a huge fan of the 2d6 resolution method though. Also while I haven't actually run a game, I've looked at the GM section of some PbtA books...

I agree. Force damage was super well defined before, but not it's further muddied to also include monsters that just have really strong attacks, and the only thing I see it saving is deleting the special ability entry to say that a monsters attacks were magical. Were a lot of GMs overlooking...

I like to imagine that the PCs are off doing some other heroic quest, completely unaware of what Kefka is up to and then just... Surprise! You're in a post apocalyptic setting now.

I know it had more than that. Off the top of my head, I had Transdimensional Turtles, Trucking Turtles, Turtles go to Hollywood. Plus if you count all the After the Bomb books there were a ton more. Yeah, I wonder what the license is like. Pladium got the license for the comic book before the...