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I will walk away from any table that insists on using some sort of system like this. This is feeding into forces in our society right now that encourages everybody to do everything they can to figure out why they should feel traumatized or victimized. Do some people legitimately feel...

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Weird; what happened 1995-2008? I know that AD&D was on the decline in the early 90s, and those were the bad Lorraine Williams years. But 3e came out ca. 2000, and I would have expected a boom then.

Guy has recently also been brought on board at SJ Games to be the line editor for the 30-years-later relaunch of The Fantasy Trip, the RPG that started with Melee and Wizard from Microtactix. http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archive/July_07_2018/Guy_McLimore_Steps_In_As_Fantasy_Trip_Line_Editor

...which is great if you've bought Fantasy Grounds and want to use it. If you don't want to be locked in to that one proprietary format, then it's no good. This is especially true for Fantasy Grounds if you aren't playing a VTT game. What format that does not lock you in to a single...

Which game company does not release their stuff as PDFs? I am not aware of any. Suffice to say that the vast majority of them do. WOTC is an outlier by not releasing their core books as PDF, even if they are not the one and only outlier. Oh, give me a break. This is sophistry. You can...

Uh.... the rules that are necessary to play if you're going to play the full game beyond what's in the Basic Rules. In other words: sure, you can get some of the supplements and adventures as PDFs. This is held up as evidence that WotC likes PDFs. But you can't get the core rulesbooks as...

But not the core books -- the ones that are necessary to play.

Is this a print of the web page, or the actual laid out PDF of the book? While the former is usable, it's not at all the same as the latter.

Both Document Viewer (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.sufficientlysecure.viewer/) and PDF Viewer (https://pdfviewer.io) do quite a good job with game PDFs on Android. What are the better formats? And, more to the point, how do you get D&D on those formats? Reading online doesn't cut it...

....? In what way is it barely functional? If you want to read formatted pages, well, PDF does that quite well. PDF is just a decades old technology, but it does what it does every well, which is why every other game company releases all their stuff as PDFs. (Indeed, Wizards release...

It offers things PDFs do not, but it doesn't fill the need that PDFs fill. It's a proprietary service to which you subscribe, and that require you to be online. A PDF would be a book, in electronic format, that you can read on whatever device you want. What's more, as with the physical book...

...and you know what format you still can't get the core books in? PDF! When is WotC going to realize that we're in the second decade of the 21st century? That all not having PDFs does is hurt their sales. You get people like me who have ignored 5e altogether because of the lack of legal...

Yikes. Their license is a bit of a mess, and their advertisement as an "open source" RPG is a straight-up falsehood. First, I really wouldn't call this an "open source" RPG. It's designed to be as easy as possible to allow people to write compatible material, so, yes, good. However, it does...

That was the real benefit of the FF -- monsters were novel. The one friend who was the only one I played D&D with from age 14 to 23 (1982-1991) bought me the 1e Monster Manual 2 so that I would be able to spring monsters on him that he didn't know. (I was the GM, he was the player. For much...

Interesting that Ed Greenwood complained about the name of the Caryatid Columns, because that's actually a name from history : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryatid I picked up the Fiend Folio when it was pretty new. I was in a great spot at the time -- an 11 (or 12?) year-old in a D&D...

I think the appeal of the horror is all part of the same thing, though. The idea is that there are more things in heaven and in earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy. Yet, nowadays, we have natural philosophy (we've taken to calling it science) that makes highly accurate predictions about...

The problem with the existential dread is that we live in an era where the vastness of the Universe and our insignificance in comparison to it is widely appreciated. Even if you aren't fully up on the expanding Universe and so forth, you have some idea about lots of Galaxies out there and how...

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Perks are still there, it's just the name "Perks" that's not there. They're just 1-point advantages... which, really, is all they ever were. A number of the professions have a couple of 1-point advantages available to them.