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Well, I picked up my copy of the PDF today. Next up: reading it!

Although I am not able to do so while at work, it seems that Drivethrurpg has the core rules available in PDF. Have to check this out tonight.

I honestly find it strange more than anything else. I enjoy PbtA games and have a lot of them. There are a lot of D&D-esque versions out there. A simple search found plenty of articles on finding the fantasy PbtA game that's right for you. And there are tons of them I've never heard of! I...

Reading over this thread gave me some old school Alarums and Excursions feelings. I've been thinking about it since I heard it's finally shutting down. This feels like a discussion we could have had back in the 1970s. It's kind of nice to see how RPGs and how to play them are still an issue in...

From what I've seen, random damage and increasing hit points are unusual in PbtA. I've played a fair bit of Monster of the Week, which has a Harm system, and characters have a set amount of Harm they can take before death, and injuries over a certain point are Serious Wounds. That's the closest...

Does anyone know about the playbooks? DW had playbooks for the classic D&D classes, which were part of the association with D&D. It sounds like it won't be using the ability scores from D&D, so I wonder about the classes. I've recently been told that a game with D&D classes in the PbtA sense is...

I think I'm in the same place. One of the things I like about DW is that it is a bridge for D&D players to come into the PbtA world. If you read about how to run games in PbtA fashion, you both get something mechanically fun, but also something for those players to take back with them into the...

I'm absolutely not implying you shouldn't have whatever opinions you like! That's what drives discussion and makes EnWorld interesting. I was just explaining why I think it's a worthwhile topic to discuss. It's honestly not something I'd bring up in a general thread about what's in the book...

I think you're missing that the price point was in the thread title, so that's what got me thinking about it. But beyond that, I've been here since the days of 3E where we had a lot of discussions of books or other supplements that it wasn't even worth WotC's time to publish. A lot of the...

It will be interesting to see what kind of a book a $30 price point will give you in 2025. I remember back in the days when D&D moved from 3.0 to 3.5 there was a discussion about the books for that edition being all hardcover. The change was made due to price point and profitability. Looks like...

I just wanted to add that I owned the ... ahem ... very unfortunately named mine adventure. Just a couple of things. First, it was from later in the Judges Guild history, coming out in the early 80s. Second, it wasn't a bad adventure. You had rival adventuring parties exploring a dwarven mine...

It sounds like the final rules were changed so what I can tell you would be wrong. I will be picking up the PDF when it launches and I'll circle back to this and answer it once the game finally launches. The issue was that you looked up how many actual hits you took based on how much damage...

The book was the first city supplement published for D&D back in the 70s. It had this huge campaign map, and a second map that was blank and you could fill in over time as you explored it. It had several locations mapped out as mini-dungeons, but the whole city was laid out in rooms. It had...

I'm getting that feeling from some people as well, and like you say, I can't explain why. The best I can tell you is that our group of 5E players really bounced off of it hard. If you're coming from a traditional playstyle, it may be a bridge too far for some players. For our group it was the...

It's good to see this coming to about the best resolution that could be hoped for here. As an original backer from 2014, I have written off what I spent here long ago, but it will be nice to end up with some refund at the end of it all.

Just looking at the upcoming release and saw the PDF will be $30. Yes, I'll be picking it up right away. I'm also excited.

The single biggest thing I do with skills is to (largely) let players pick a skill for a situation. As long as I can justify it in some way, I just let it go. Unless you're lifting something heavy, I will let you roll Acrobatics for things you'd normally need Athletics for. I think the skill...

Looking at the Backerkit page, looks like they will include the Wraith Overlord supplement for the books, which is good. I ran that adventure several times. Now I'd give this about a 50-50 chance of actually happening, so it will be interesting to see how it shakes out.

This exactly! It's a longer term resource that you track and gradually expend throughout the adventuing day. It's also something the DM can use to show how a situation drains the party's ability to keep going. The idea in 4E was pretty much that you'd always go into combat at full HP, but you'd...

A lot of this depends on the level you start at and how often you're going to level up. If you think about it, the "how soon does your build come online?" is compatible with early editions of the game. As someone who played OE/1E/BECMI wizards, they didn't come on line in many ways until later...