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On the subject of this thread, Michael Sayre posted this thanks to the community on reddit, following up on Pathfinder winning that recent award, it talks about some of the struggles the company faced during COVID and how PF2E's strong sales have helped to keep the company afloat. Separately...

Heh, you're a lot less cynical than me, I think that growth doesn't intrinsically equate to a superior product, we very much live in an era where products can leverage other strategies to push growth. I do think that Hasbro/WOTC has pursued active strategies, so coasting may not quite be the...

That's kind of the issue though isn't it? The brand problem doesn't just obfuscate the idea of DND being popular due to its design, it actively undermines the idea that DND is popular due to its design. It can be very easy to be like "wow, 5e must be such an amazing game because its so popular"...

The call and response structure of which, incidentally, produces the particular emergent feel of the game's narrative space-- I can't decide for my players to go and overthrow the king, or explore the lower level of the mountain dungeon, but I can set all those things up. The players can't set...

I think one big thing here: where does fiction come from? what is a valid source of fiction in a roleplaying game and why? Does the fiction overriding the GM imply that there is some platonic ideal of what the narrative ought to look like, which needs to be course corrected if the mechanics and...

In Children of the Wind, "Orc" is a slur given to the Onika by their elven foes, the Onika themselves are a subset of the Vahar (who use half orc stats, but represent a common ancestor to all Goblin-like peoples instead of a hybrid) who defied the imperial rule of the empire of Vahako by...

Maybe, given how low level the soldiers would be, I feel like none of them have feats of strength that push them higher than level 8-10.

I'm still not sure why we're taking for granted all those flashes of light are fireballs or why the other spells I mentioned can't leave the scorch marks they find later? Even Produce Flame sheds light, and I seem to remember the films showing Gandalf hurling single target blasts of fire into...

I never got the impression he or anyone else could take a dragon in melee, and a high level fighter in DND can objectively carve their way through an army without going down. There's no way Jaimie Lannister should have been captured by Robb Stark's men if he was high level.

Even if we accept they're fireballs, he can cast 3 of those right at level 6 so its not like multiple large scorch marks would make him any higher level than that.

Those weren't fireballs, otherwise he'd be able to blast most of them with one shot, that was the Produce Flame cantrip, maybe you could interpret it as a scorching ray if you wanna get particular about the fact that he does more than one in six seconds.

What justifies them as high level? None of them can take even young dragons in a sword fight, and they go down if a handful of other dudes attack them at once.

if i was specifically told to deduce his level from it? yes, especially if that was the case while his life and the life of his friends was in danger. Imma nip this in the bud though, we're discussing the feel of his level in the story, you aren't simulating the hobbit if you use Gandalf's...

Generally, when people talk about Gandalf's power they're discussing things he did on screen during the novels when he was in an adventuring party, like throw flaming acorns at wolves who would have killed him had the eagles not bailed him out.

Mundane Fighters really don't fit the 'level' of DND, they belong in lower magic settings like Westeros or Middle Earth where magic users are also much more restrained, or are more limited by cast times, or at the very least where armies they can lead at higher level are a more important part of...

Specifically, in a setting where ki exists (acknowledged or otherwise) there's no real reason the martial tradition of fighters / rogues etc, wouldnt draw on it especially at the higher end. Its just the energy of the body in that context, and part of the world's natural laws, achievable through...

In my settings there are ambient sources of magic either in the air or related to someone's life force, as someone trains or learns techniques for cultivating this, the limits of our world's physical capability can be broken: In a way, this is kind of default-- if primal magic is magic, then...