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Having recently finished a year-long 1-10 PF2 game I wanted to write down a few thoughts on the game. TL; DR: PF2 has a great foundation that's weighed down by most everything else around the core system. The game could use a revision. This is all coming from the perspective of a GM. I have...

That silver dragon is very similar to the famous Lockwood silver dragon painting. They're not quite identical but very close.

Yes, but I also want the VTT to support 2d maps and assets. 3d environments for big marquee encounters but 2d for the rest. And I want the 3d maps to support 2d tokens where it's just a picture of a creature on a token base.

They could be a unique offshoot. Like a mutant!

They should just use ancestry. Yeah, Pathfinder has it. So what? Ancestry fits fantasy a little better than species. We can give them feedback, the term isn’t set in stone yet.

The new adventure does kind of give a reason why the gods of good accepted or tolerated the Cataclysm. Apparently the good gods in Dragonlance are not focused on defeating and destroying evil. Instead their main goal is to preserve the free will of mortals. The evil gods want to rule over...

If there are any I haven’t noticed. The book says that draconians are magical creatures that basically lack free will, being creations of Takhisis who as an evil god wants to rule over mortals. “They aren’t creatures with their own goals and ambitions. Rather, they are magical manifestations...

Ansalon is not that exhaustively detailed that you couldn’t add a small people of orcs living in a couple of places, like a mountain range and a more wasteland style region. They could simply be a footnote people who never rose to prominence. And I see a lot more value in finding a place for a...

There’s a free preview of the first Chapter over on Roll20. The first boss encounter is against a +2 enemy and its minions, at party level 1. Lessons not learned!

The new Mages of High Sorcery is a good solution to recontextualizing Dragonlance’s arcane magic in 5e. I was never a huge fan of the Summer of Chaos aftermath—if you thought that the Spellplague was drastic, the Age of Mortals in DL was an order of magnitude more severe. All gods gone, magic...

I’m glad that this isn’t going past level 10. After running two campaigns to the end of tier 3, and even a bit into tier 4, I’m good with high level 5e. The game isn’t at its best past tier 2. 5e shines from levels 5 to 10, maybe to 12.

In addition to what’s been mentioned, you’re not hosed if you lack the rituals that lift curses or diseases or afflictions because it’s possible to get rid of them with skill checks. The healing rituals simply make it faster and easier. In older D&D you’d often need the cleric’s spells or your...

I have to mention how perfect 4e was for War of the Lance Dragonlance. No healing magic? No gods? Ok, no Heal or Religion rituals, no divine classes. That's it. Game still works perfectly without complex cascading mechanical adjustments. It's the only edition of D&D where Age of Despair or early...

It’s very interesting to hear that Pathfinder 2e is Paizo’s best selling product line ever. We now have official confirmation that it’s become more successful than Pathfinder 1e.

Nah. Even the PF2 occult bard is a stretch at times because the occult tradition has to incorporate the weird and Lovecraftian stuff too. A psionic bard doesn't really gel with the classic bard image.

I've used the dragonborn race option, many of the spells, some magic items, and several monsters from Fizban's. Quite a few monsters actually, either straight as is or re-skinned, or I've taken abilities and added them to other creatures. It's been a very useful book for me.

Aberrations absolutely. It's been almost 20 years since Lords of Madness. 4e never got an aberrations focused book. Mind flayers and beholders are much too iconic for them not to get a book of their own in 5e.

Apparently classes will still have class spell lists, the new categories are for feats and races. Mentioned in the accompanying video by Crawford.

Dweomer was still used in places in 3e and 4e. 3e has a spell called Analyze Dweomer, and a prestige class, Dweomerkeeper, and the 3.5 Mystra plane was called Dweomerheart (also referenced in 4e). 4e has a few powers and a monster with the word 'dweomer' in the names.

Bless is a spell that can be countered, but bardic inspiration cannot, even though the latter is magical as well. Countercharm is magic, but it's not a spell like many other protective spells, and thus it can't be counterspelled. Performance of creation from the College of Creation subclass is a...