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I actually thought it did have need of a spell compendium. With all the additional spells in modules and dragon mag, it could have benefited from a compedium. There was a need and I'd have gladly bought it. It was always a pain to track down that cool spell you couldn't remember which...

Read this blog. It's US based, but the owner/writer is currently tourning northwestern US and Canada. Might provide some insights for you, even if it's not directly dealing with UK. http://blackdiamondgames.blogspot.ca

Right now, my game of choice is my own fantasy hack of Danger Patrol. It does what I want it to do (for the most part, still tweaking), provides little work on the DM side (other than being creative) and after some major tweaking, provides the character choices I enjoy on the player side. Still...

There's already enough of that rolling around as well. If we're rolling 2d20 more than 1d20 in the course of a game, I lose that magical D&D feeling. The all or nothing single d20 roll. The swingyness of the D&D combat system is one of its hallmark traits. It's horrible and it's perfectly D&D...

Nope, never said it was. It works as intended. Just not my type of mechanic. As a rarity it's fine. As a constant it's not something I'm interested in. When it was first introduced in the playtest I said the same thing. I like it as a once in a blue moon mechanic, but if it was set free it would...

Suit up a cleric with full defenses and just aide the damage dealers. Or cast spells that grant advantage to your allies. It's not difficult at all.

It has nothing to do with the effects on the die roll, and everything to do with its prevalence and aesthetic on the game. It's rare in the games I played where someone isn't rolling 2 d20. It doesn't have any of the uniqueness it should have and breaks my immersion in D&D. The re-roll mechanics...

The issue I had was the prevalence, not its effect on the dice roll. In the games I've played, it's rare that someone isn't rolling 2 d20. It makes me feel like I'm not playing D&D and instead playing one of the many success based systems (WOD, Shadowrun, etc). Breaks my immersion that I'm...

I still don't like the advantage/disadvantage mechanic. That feeling hasn't changed since the initial playtests and one of the reasons why I'm still not a fan of the edition. There are other reasons as well, but that one was the main reason I disengaged from the playtests. The feeling of...

3 out of 5 rating for Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Core Rulebook Star Wars: Edge of the Empire is a game that doesn't know what it wants to be. On one hand it's fairly rules light and on the other it's chart/table heavy. It introduces indy mechanics but then doesn't follow through with...

And we suddenly discover that Gnomes are actually female dwarves. And halflings are elven males. Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria! It's certainly an interesting idea, the concept of gender providing different characteristics. I probably wouldn't deal with it in humanoid creatures...

Length of time isn't that significant between switching groups (we're not talking hours here it's just ABC, 123), it's the errors generated because the individuals are focused on two different tasks simultaneously (and there will be errors, that's the point of the example). The error between...

Good point. It's also gets wonky when at one moment you're sitting on 2,000 gp of scrolls and wands and the next time to calculate WBL they're used up so your numbers are off. And then there's party items, bought, found, or crafted that are used to benefit the party as a whole, such as wands of...

When I taught at the university I'd always demonstrate the issue with multitasking by using this example. Time yourself. Count to 26. Recite the alphabet. Now do both switching from one to another (1-A-2-B-3-C, etc). For most people it takes longer to switch between tasks than doing each task...

When you run modules or APs, it is usually based on 4 players not 2 or 6. If you do not adjust the module/AP you gain more or less treasure. Or if you end up bypassing a section it can lead to less treasure than expected. In my experience most alterations involved increase the number of...

In all my groups in 3x/pathfinder we have always played pretty strictly by RAW. House rules were rare except for points of clarification when the rules were ambiguous. Same with WBL. I usually track my characters WBL and if we're below expectation I make sure to let the DM know (most of the time...

Some people are like that but I've gotten rid of my books long ago and have no wish to start purchasing paper anymore. I'm not particularly anxious to play 5e either, so I don't mind waiting if it takes them a while to put them out (assuming they do, which they may not, aside from the basic, in...

Waiting on the PDFs. No PDFs, no buying.

I think the only way to increase the sorcerer to tier 1 is to gain a faster spell progression. It doesn't matter how many spells known if the character is still one level off from the wizard/cleric. How many castings of levitate equal 1 casting of fly? How many mage armors equal 1 casting of...

This was answered in my earlier post. It is the lower cost item as quoted from the Magic Item Compendium.