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I think part of the problem with Bones V was that the "fulfillment center" was basically their local store in (IIRC) Nottingham, which did not have anywhere near the manpower to do something like that. With the main fulfillment at Texas HQ, they usually make it an "all-hands" situation where...

I think both methods have their place. I like having multiple possible success levels (at least basic/critical success) on a single roll, for when you're just doing a single thing. But I think collapsing a larger effort to a series of rolls can also be useful in many cases – particularly if...

I don't know how dependent Siocast is on imported resources, but I suspect Reaper might weather this better than many other miniature makers. They've been moving more and more toward Bones USA, which is Siocast and done in-house – my understanding is that it has basically replaced their metal...

At least according to this tweet, anything Ed says about the Forgotten Realms is canon unless contradicted by TSR/WOTC stuff. I'll also add that the Realms has long been fairly LGBTQ+-friendly. At least as far back as Forgotten Realms Adventures (1990), the independent city of Elversult was...

I know Reaper has had some variations on that, but their Bones kickstarters tend to be fairly complex affairs with dozens of possible add-ons. For Bones 5, in addition to the core set there were 7 expansion boxes, 16 subsets of the core set you could buy as extras, and 37 additional addons (plus...

I have no idea about what resources Lester B. Smith has, but I'm pretty sure that Mongoose has more resources available to make a better product. And of course, it would likely benefit from having the original main writer attached.

The king is dead without a proper heir? Seems like a perfect time to institute a better system of government!

Ah yes, completely unsuited to any sort of grand quests or anything of the sort. They'll never amount to anything. 3e halflings were also penalized in combat due to smaller size, which mattered a lot to various combat maneuvers and forced them to use smaller weapons. So in 3.0 a human could use...

I don't know if it's actually realistic, but the BRP version in the Troubleshooters feels right. Much like classic BRP, you get a tick on a skill when you use it in a significant way (you don't necessarily have to succeed, but you can't "climb the tree to get an Agility tick"). At the end of...

I believe there's a passage in the 2e DMG that says that story awards shouldn't, overall, be more than the adventure's potential encounter awards. I believe the optional RP and class (and, in Dark Sun, race) awards go on top of that.

I mean, there is that, but there's also the fact that it makes no god damn sense. Photosynthesis is (simplified) a reaction whereby a plant converts water, carbon dioxide, and light into glucose and oxygen. There's no way to turn CO2 into water, because there's no hydrogen in it. Unless of...

Reminds me of a biotech device they had in an Aeon supplement, the Flor de Água. It was a biotech flower, but instead of using photosynthesis to turn carbon dioxide into oxygen, it produced water.

To some degree, that's House Sivis/the Mark of Scribing. Translation is definitely in their wheelhouse (they had comprehend languages and tongues as spells back in 3e), the Speaker's Guild "offers the services of translators and mediators", and the Notaries Guild deals with legal documents and...

I think "feel" is fair game for some things. E.g. "You feel a chill running up your spine as..."

Some are saying that printed books are exempt from the tariffs. Assuming that's true... Boxed sets have been making something of a comeback in the RPG business lately, particularly with successful crowdfunders that get a bunch of stretch goals. For example, I recently bought the SWADE version...

An index is good for when you have no clue where a particular thing is. Art is good for when you know roughly where something is but not its exact page. Plus, it's also good for breaking up what would otherwise be long walls of text, as well as illustrating game concepts. For example, if you're...

Read-aloud text is nice to have, but it's even nicer if the important parts of it get called out somehow (e.g. underlining). That makes it easier for those who want to describe things in their own words to make sure they don't miss anything vital ("What do you mean there's a pentagram on the...

Hmm, let me think of how many books I was bringing back in the early 90s for my Dark Sun game... PHB, DMG, Monstrous Compendium (with assorted monsters added from appendices), Dark Sun box, Dragon Kings, Complete Fighter's (for combat rules and various stuff you could do with proficiencies)...

This is old and possibly UK-specific, but back when I was hanging out on the alt.fan.pratchett newsgroup in the mid-90s I remember people mentioning that the reason various Discworld maps were done as paperbacks with attached maps was that this made them count as books (VAT-free) instead of maps...