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Heh... every single "issue" with the game. Of course, when someone says "many", what that word actually means is "All the people who agree with my issue that I constantly see because I am specifically in contact with those people. But I have no idea how many people that actually is and is...

Still think #20 (and the subsequent numbers) is wrong and messes up their own internal pattern.

I do wonder how a D&D book with cover art by Randall Munroe of xkcd would go over. :D

More people can probably recognize the image of Karlach and Minsc than the images of probably any other FR character besides Elminster and Drizzt. Because no other Realms characters have been immortalized visually to as wide an audience as what we see from the video games. How many of us could...

Roleplaying games are about the stories one creates, not the "board game". If the "board game" (IE rules) were the most important thing... GMs wouldn't need to describe scenes and then ask us "What do you do?"... because the "board game" would already have the order of operations of what we do...

And it's why Champions, ICONS and Mutants & Masterminds succeed as RPGs. :)

A lot of that I think is because we are still within the supposed 5th generation, and no one can really determine the tropes of an era while still within it. We're all too close to it and can't see the forest through the trees. 20 years from now when we are probably in D&D 6E territory and...

I'm personally someone for whom art never dictates whether or not to purchase a book. I'm playing the game in my imagination, not with the actual art pieces... so if the game is good, then that's all that really matters. If bad art ever stopped me, then I never would have bought the original...

Honestly, I don't think it really does anyone any benefit to relate any of these games to D&D, rather than just treat them as their own things. Once someone takes the step of saying "I'm done with D&D, so let me find this game that does this part of D&D differently"... the person is predisposed...

Yeah, 7th Sea's fictional history of the land of Theah is very much a combination of famous personages and bits of 17th century history slightly fictionally tweaked and then combined with myths, lore, and stories from books and film of those eras to create a fantasy "alternative history" of...

I also really liked their method for Brute Squads. Unlike say 'Swarms' in D&D where the swarm is basically not different mechanically than any other creature and it's only "flavored" like a mass of creatures together... 7th Sea Brute Squads had a mechanical base that was different than henchmen...

I would find it infinitely amusing if the people who have been over the last decade or so decrying the fact that WotC never updated the Forgotten Realms suddenly decided NOT to get these books because of how the covers looked. I would presume that won't be the case... that their needs for...

I myself wouldn't necessarily agree with the specifics of what Mike wrote, but can understand where he's coming from. To me I always saw it like this: First gen is the original Dungeons & Dragons and D&D adaptations that are like as he said-- the slow move from wargaming into playing a...

I also got 61. Although I also think the glyph for 20 is incorrect because to me it is breaking its own internal pattern. 0-3 was the top row flags in a pattern of empty/left flag/right flag/double flag Then we get the next pattern of the middle row of flags going left/right/double flag plus...

Heck... backing the KS just to get Pirate Nations alone would have been enough for me. That book you couldn't find anywhere without it being hiked up into the hundreds of dollars for it, LOL!

Agree 100% on the Swordsman School issue. Always got the sense that they wanted to get the Nation books out as quickly as possible in order to not alienate players who had PCs for those nations... but as a result they came up with potentially interesting schools thematically but could never...

Really? Couldn't disagree more. I think the first edition d10 Roll & Keep system with exploding dice and players being able to call their own raises is one of the best and most exciting mechanical systems I've ever used and perfect for swashbuckling adventure. To me, nothing says 'Derring-Do'...

It also doesn't help that both WotC and all these 5E third-party designers are trying to map out an entire species of people with four or five rather pathetic game mechanic traits. ;) I've said it before and I'll say it again... when the game gives us 20 levels worth of features and abilities...

Once in a 7th Sea campaign a couple decades ago. I had already had two PCs die in the campaign and thus went much further afield with the design and background of the third one to try something really new... a stealth assassin member of Die Kreuzsritter. That design turned out to be a mistake...

The entire Leveled Class System is Narrative Dissonance. PCs can go from Level 1 to Level 5 after like two modules that take place over like two weeks of in-game time... and now have 5 times the hit points and their abilities multiply five-fold. And THAT doesn't cause players to go "What a...