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I had August in the pool of when this would happen, thinking this announcement would coincide with Gen Con. I was too conservative! Edited to add: the guy who won did the equivalent of saying "one dollar" on The Price is Right.

I think you just have to be a certain age. I was just a kid when I read the books, and they're part of the reason I enjoyed D&D so much. And for the kids out there: check out these books! Every now and then they have a sale for the Kindle edition of a multi-book set that's incredibly cheap.

As someone of a grognard age who doesn't identify with a lot of the typical grognard views, I think they do matter. A lot of media franchises have decided that people beyond a certain age aren't their target audience. I guess I have to ask, "How's that working out for you?" I had initially heard...

I absolutely love the layout for the Free League books I have, so I'm excited about it. When I see Mork Borg, I have this instinctive reaction. Never have I had books recommended to me that I bounced harder off. For that grognards thread, this is where my grognard shows.

Unfortunately, the games I play in use the hour short rest, so we don't take them very often. It's difficult because that changes the power level for the classes who are built around that mechanic. If you have a small number of resources that reset on a short rest, you're much less effective if...

This is very interesting to me. Coming from someone who has watched the show but not read the series, I may have a biased opinion, but I find it a potential for something different in Superhero RPGs. The thing I find about Invincible is that it plays out like a fairly typical superhero universe...

It sure seems like they think they know something. I hope that's correct. I do think that with the changes I see in the demo now, I'd still pick the game up. The "new rules" angle isn't as interesting to me as a better engine.

Skills and Powers 2E.

My goodness there's a lot of grumpiness out there for this game. I have read through all the betas, played a sample campaign, and while it wasn't for my group, there's a ton of great stuff in the game. If I had a game to run, I'd strongly consider it (at least the last beta I saw). I am...

I think what would server 5.5E well would be to have a serious discussion about how the game plays differently at different tiers of play. At what level are different abilities or powers taken as a given? At what level should you expect to have flight available for extended periods? How about...

I think that the reason we don't see as many high level campaigns is two-fold: first, people just start games at level one. I've been in a few games that went against the grain but as a rule, you start at the beginning. At most it's level three since that's where you get subclasses. The other...

Absolutely see that now.:oops: I hope this does well, but I'm less interested now. I already have games I could use for this purpose and I think a completely different system will be a harder sell with people who are just starting out in the hobby. But with that said, good luck!

I think this is a really good idea. Unfortunately I don't think that the core 5E chassis is especially good for this use, but I will be happy to look at what they do with it. I think that WotC wants to move in this direction with D&D itself from the core dungeon bashing experience, so I think...

For me, it's why my group wants to play right now. We just finished a Feng Shui game, and one of the GMs wanted to pick up our 5E game, so we're back at it. Before that we played a Daggerheart game. What comes next? Don't know. We aren't using 5.5E and I expect we won't even touch it until we...

I don't think that's the point. There is a point about the age level that's appropriate for language. I know that I was reading D&D at age 9 and that would have made the book off limits to me at that age. I am forever grateful that some of the artwork didn't get it banned for me at the time.

This is one of those things that are heresy, but I did enjoy the changes to how the Planes and the cosmos were setup in 4E. Feel free to reject my opinions outright on that accord.

It's funny that you mention this. It has been a long time since those days, and I guess I do remember rules updates. The thing is, I was regularly playing Living Forgotten Realms in those days, and they used the latest rules all the time. I do remember some rules updates about Stealth, but it...

I don't remember any problems with the stealth rules in 4E and I played a Rogue all the way into Epic Tier. I was just looking up the rules and I found this, which explains why I never had an issue: For me, that resolved problems I have in 5E: if you're sneaking, you leave stealth, do your...

As a 4E fan, I don't see any significant extra influence on the 5.5 edition, other than the bloodied condition. I don't think the Weapon Masteries are the equivalent of at-wills. I wish this were the case, mind you.

Oh I love so many things about Break! It is the most beautiful RPG I have ever seen, as well as being the best laid out. I think you watch the Knights of Last Call, but they did an extensive look at it, and ... it looks great. My problem with it is the core mechanic. It's roll-under on a D20...