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1. Astroprisma I don't actually remember how I found this one (maybe a Kickstarter suggestion when I was backing something else), but I really like the aesthetic, and I can't wait to see how it turns out. 2. Ars Magica Definitive Edition Another game I backed. This game has been on my radar...

My personal solve to this is to make alignment less personality and more cosmic association. Whether by choice or by circumstance, those who are aligned have a relationship with the force they're aligned with. Being evil aligned might not mean that you do bad things. In fact it might be the...

No. It was great.

Wildbow's Pactverse would make a fascinating urban fantasy RPG.

Title ≠ Cover

I used Mos Eisley because the person replying to me used a Star Wars character themselves. The traveling circus one is my usual go-to for parties of characters that look tonally dissonant with their surroundings. As for covers, I prefer ones that at least try to hint at the tone of the...

Not really. Soth already had history by the time Knight of the Black Rose was published. His cover art was of a classic knight with glowing eyes, and his one-sentence description would be "undead cursed knight tortured by reminders of his past failure." Yes, you could draw parallels to Star...

I think it depends on what sort of campaign you're running. If you want a modern horror setup, yeah, it's pretty common for the protagonists to be pretty stereotypical people who are brought into extraordinary situations. The Mist pulls in a bunch of randos and dumps them into Ravenloft. In...

I got mine a few days ago, but due to classes and learning Ten Candles in advance of Halloween, I haven't had a chance to read through them yet.

Again, only if the DM awards it. I wouldn't.

Maybe if you're giving XP out via algorithm. As a DM, I would award players absolutely nothing for that save for possibly advice that continuing to play their characters that way would see them swiftly hunted down by more lawful parties and hanged.

I put a "3" because I believe that WotC's (or Hasbro's, your pick) business strategies dominate their game design more than a genuine desire to make the best product possible. I don't fault a company for trying to make money, but the way they do it can and does diminish my enthusiasm for the...

I was considering ordering the glass, but unfortunately, they don't ship to my Japanese or military address, and I doubt I'll ever see either of the alcohol options here either. Oh well.

Once our group is finished with my girlfriend's The Wild Beyond the Witchlight campaign, I'm going to propose running in a different system. Right now, it's a toss up between The One Ring and Shadow of the Weird Wizard. I'm also on and off working on my own abomination of a system that more...

Yes, it is. Pretty much every release of the game has a shorthand. Of course you have the Capital "E" editions shortened to 1E, 2E, etc. The variations of Basic have shorthand (BX, BECMI, etc). 3E's revision is simply 3.5. Up till now, probably the longest names for releases have been Black...

Whether or not it is called an edition change is kind of tangential to the issue that is sparking the debate in the first place. Given the versatility of having a human element in the resolution process of the game, you could conceivably play a game with characters drawn up from any two...

Keeping in mind that "my" 2024 PHB would be wildly different from the direction WotC is taking it: Full species: human elf dwarf halfling orc Species Templates: mixed parentage (half) divine touched fiend touched wild touched fey touched In my PHB, you would get to choose from species traits...

Ditto. It's the main reason my 2E spending has largely become the largest portion of my RPG budget. I firmly believe that having rich flavor and lore for all aspects of an RPG is important even for people who don't use it directly because it gives the DM another source for inspiration a step...

Alternatively, you can think a lot about how players can live and exist and live on these planes. Like, the plane of air, are you just falling constantly? Is there a terminal velocity, or are you just accelerating forever until you eventually break up and or get ejected into a neighboring...

for players, anyway. For the publisher, the need for power creep can be measured by the financial quarter.