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Fascinating. I've found that the original crop of players, raised on this sort of thing, are a totally different breed from the modern group. The two don't always overlap (this sounds like a nightmare to play to me) but I love hearing about it.

Sometimes your group just has a bad case of the sillies. Sometimes this comes out of nowhere, and sometimes it is feedback on how well you (as a DM) are actually running the game and presenting the material. In both cases it is good to give the sillies their head for a while or you risk...

Only managed to play the first few scenes of Wrath of the Righteous before my group blew up a little and we stopped playing Pathfinder. I've heard a lot of good things about Owlcat's Kingmaker and played it for about 30 minutes (was pretty brain-dead that month). It has a lot of the crunch of...

I'm quite experienced and I love the simplification. Makes it easier for me to build my own bits =) Also: I have young kids at home. So simple is about my speed... sigh.

Fair. I think being handed features that simply work, rather than rolling the 3E skill to forge documents (for example) is definitely a mechanic. But you're right in that it is bolted onto the rest of the game and comes into play through DM'ing. Mostly it sounds like you don't enjoy how 5E...

So, to be clear, you are calling 5E clerics generic because you feel that clerics in 5E are going to look similar, not that clerics looks similar to other classes? I see where you are coming from on this much better if that is what you meant. I do think that 5E purposefully went this route...

Now, let's be fair. Backgrounds have features, and these are definitely "whats." The fact that most D&D games devolve into versions of fight-loot-shop-repeat doesn't negate this. Some of these features can be extraordinary in the right circumstances (see: Charlatan feature, second ability)...

I'd second that. The term "generic" just doesn't cut it. If there were 4 character classes all vaguely like cleric I'd say they felt "generic." The fact that other systems were more wonky and could allow extremely broken and complicated builds doesn't make them "characterful [or whatever the...

Interesting how the cover looks like the world's most dedicated and elaborate children's drawing. So is this aimed at getting kids on board?

Playing a 3E cleric was certainly fun, which was the design intention. I miss the 4E approach in this aspect. Having a leader type and many routes to healing made for more interesting party composition. I don't mind 5E clerics, but Druid of the Moon is just too great. We've managed play...

After that many years, who knows how intentional it all was. Glad to see good ideas bubble back up in mass media. Wasn't Firefly all in ~one system too? I thought it was a star complex.

Baldurs Gate did a terrific job of mixing in humor and meta without moving the whole game into camp. Divinity games definitely feel campy. A tricky balance. Honestly though, many D&D stories have trod this line. The history of high drama juxtaposed with goofy humor is saturated in many of...

A pitch or explanation of what this actually is on the store page would be helpful... PF1 has a functioning magic system. What makes this one compelling? "Concept-based" doesn't mean anything to me.

Yes, but in every translation there will be two languages. And weird variations in spelling.

I think Belgium is a great place to draw inspiration for Baldurs Gate 3! I look forward to additional waffles, better chocolate, excellent WWII museums, and the game being written in two languages. Also, a peeing statue of a child. Yup. Need to visit Belgium again! Wonderful place even if...

I did, and much like I did with Kingmaker the Game, I bounced right off of PF2 too. With two young(er) children and my friends at the same stage, even PF2 is just too much. We need something that is fun out of the box without too many fiddly bits. The core idea that characters are puzzles you...

Someone desperately needed to make more living spells. Bravo for doing it. Used a ton of living spells at the end of my next campaign. Need to keep this in mind in case it comes up again!

I'm actually excited for this. We started Wrath of the Righteous just at the tail end of my group playing Pathfinder. I've really wanted to finish it (and yes, it has been sitting on my shelf unread all of this time). I like the trend of making Pathfinder's APs into games. Now if they could...

Honestly I'm relieved. My reading backlog is plenty full, and this isn't the slightest bit interesting to me. Setting books can be a great inspiration, but I'm not through the ones I've already bought! Congrats to the Critters though.

Depending on what printer technology they use, these might amortize to something reasonable. Curious to see what price point they come to!