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Not that there's anything particularly toxic in Barrowmaze - though my female players did lament the absence of handsome male bar staff, or really any sexy male NPCs, when Helix's inn has three attractive barmaids.

OK my friend is Kimberly Pauley, who has published with WoTC and more recently Ghostfire Gaming. She knows a lot of authors & publishers, and she told me there was a more genuine concern than I thought. That's all I know. Edit: To be clear, I don't share the concern. Kickstarter routinely shut...

If it's who I think you mean, I'd peg him as an Ayn Rand Libertarian. Clearly mileage varies. From what I was told the concern was more about rape fantasy type stuff, like Gor only worse. Edit: Vox Day is kind of an alt right fascist type though, I think he published a superhero RPG but his...

You are welcome to your opinion. However I am a reliable source, as is my friend. :p

An author friend of mine who's in with the WoTC crowd told me that there actually was some very nasty OGL thing that was attempted Kickstarted that caused a furore. However she didn't name it.

While that's not what he said - I did listen to the interview - I do think his conflation of white WoTC staff with white RPG players - 'white guys in basements' - may have been unintentional, at least somewhat. It was kind of a mess, but it certainly didn't give off an 'everyone's welcome' vibe...

Brink's "White guys like me can't leave the hobby soon enough" didn't really renew my enthusiasm for 5e D&D.

I think my group (of about 25-30 players, ie several intermixed tables & VTT groups) is kind of in flux. I'm still running 5e but am running Dragonbane for the first time Sunday, and in future am definitely looking at less D&D, especially Current D&D and more other systems. In particular no one...

Personally I stopped buying WoTC adventures a while ago. But I've never looked to game designers as a source of moral instruction. That goes for Gary Gygax's view of LG just as much as whoever WoTC is paying (small beans to) these days. My preferred solution is not to use Good & Evil Alignment...

Playing first game Sunday, I have to decide whether to convert the Quickstart PCs to the Beta rules with the much longer skill list. I wish they'd stuck with a shorter list.

While the game is generally lower powered than 5e D&D, some of the HAs look set to change that. I can see a dual sword wielding plate armoured knight with Duel Wielder + Double Slash cutting down 4 enemies in a round as their attacks bounce off him...

One thing I've been doing is going through my printouts underlining Boon & Bane; it's easy to miss that eg shields give a Boon on parry attempts.

I like the BRP-based advancement rules a lot, it's one of the things that differentiates it from level based games like D&D. I think doing the end of session awards as a cooldown should work well. I was wondering about allowing +1 to an Attribute as a Heroic Ability. That generally seems weaker...

Still no treasure cards AFAICS, sadly. I printed out a copy of the 1e Pathfinder Beginner Box treasure table to use in the meantime.

It's very close to old school Runequest/BRP advancement, plus the Feat-like heroic abilities. I like how different it is from levelling up.

Well it looks like we're playing next Sunday - got 5 of my regular D&Ders who are up for it! Two are driving 3 hours for game!

I'd say that if you like the look of the free Quickstart on the Kickstarter page, then go ahead and back. The Beta pdfs they sent me on backing are already very nice and polished, with plenty to run a campaign it looks like. They include the Misty Vale campaign which is pretty substantial and...

I'm liking it a lot so far from the Beta pdfs and Quickstart - love the Scandi art, but the big thing is that it takes BRP/Runequest and removes all the fiddly bits that bug me, while adding a lot of cool stuff. It sits kind of between Runequest/Magic World and 5e D&D, with a Scandi overlay -...

I think the real reason is "We like it!" Good enough reason for me.

20% non tax payers: this include people too poor to pay taxes, criminals, children etc 50% poor: their income is 2 sp/day 20% modest: income is 1 gp/day 8% comfortable: 2 gp/day 1% wealthy: 4 gp/day 1% aristocratic: 10 gp/day. I think having 30% of the population operating in the 'gold piece...