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My speculation is that they are trying to say that third party published 5e is the #3 seller right now, underneath 5e first party and Pathfinder first party. This reads like a hint towards the vast swath of smaller publishers that are looking for trends to follow from the data. In other words...

I'll throw my hat into the ring, if only to get a reprieve from being a forever-GM. If/when you start recruiting people go ahead and PM me the discord invite.

I have gotten that sense as well. I don't think you're anti-Pathfinder or anti-Paizo, and even if you were that's not wrong or anything, it's a preference in entertainment. What I do think is happening is an overreaction to perceived fiscal failures based on very shaky evidence. When @darjr...

Even the Paizo staff were making fun of the cover on the GenCon stream. This cover isn't really indicative of the overall quality of the art IMO, it's just an odd outlier. The Knights of Lastwall was kind of weak art-wise, but in general the production is good across most Paizo products...

Entire systems are missing for no good reason, or are incredibly under-baked; skills, exploration, social encounters, magic item purchasing and crafting, any real use for treasure, and monster building I would all include here. Feats and Multi-classing break the game in half. The gulf in power...

Yeah, I think this is mostly true. In many of the PF2e communities I'm in there is a lot of 5e bashing, so the edition war is still ongoing just not between 3.5 diehards and everyone else anymore. But in general, I just like being a Paizo customer/fan more. They produce more stuff that I...

If the #2 TTRPG on the market couldn't sell a dozen books over a 3 day convention there wouldn't even be enough of a non-5e playing market to justify holding GenCon in the first place. Do you really think Pathfinder is so dead in the water that their showing at GenCon is a big waste of time...

Rules for the Performance Skill Performance Skill Feats The Performance skill is all types of performance unified. Whenever you use the Performance skill you pick the type of performance, which determines what traits the performance has (i.e. visual, linguistic, auditory, etc). There are...

Blow for blow, I prefer Grimdark more in settings that try to pull inspiration for historical Earth. The best "hopepunk" setting I can think of is Star Trek of the TNG and DS9 era, which works very hard to distinguish the humans of the future as a product of their exceptional enviroment and...

That's not a fair comparison. Runelords and Crimson Throne were so old at the time they were still using 3.5 rules in their original versions. Abomination Vaults and Ruby Phoenix came out last year. As some of the first APs, Runelords and Crimson Throne were also made at a time when Paizo was...

Lack of magic items, or really just any use for gold at all, is one of the big sticking points in my 5e group. I also feel the lack of a skill system during play; much of the player's character sheets go unused because they have no idea how they can or should use their skills or tools, because...

I agree in principle, my only gripe with a table with a high delta from it's minimum and maximum level is that the point of lethal encounters the party may need to flee from can easily be just 2 to 4 levels above them. Encountering something that's above that is so absurdly outside of what is...

I have to agree. This is not a case where the substance of the article is wrong or misleading, it's just a lack of substance at all. It doesn't adequately describe the scope of the contents of the book, or anything relevant to PF2e buyers about that content. It barely touches on the most...

That's incredibly broad. I don't know anything that would adequately cover every culture's view of every single human phenotype in existence. You might want to limit the scope of this request. Are there specific human phenotypes you worry about? And more to the point, what can it give you...

You're getting into very tricky territory with tweaking monsters like this. The first thing you should know with monster building in 5e is that the DMG guidelines are lies. Monsters built for publication consistently have much lower HP and much higher attack bonuses than the guidelines would...

This is an esoteric recommendation, but Natalia Zamilska is a great electronic artist from Poland, I use her music in my games all the time. According to wikipedia she has a girlfriend.

This is based on the logic that making any profit is a win. That's not how this works. Everyone wants the highest return on investment possible. Being able to offer the best ROI is the real competition; for the investors, that means offering terms that the company will find acceptable, and...

If you have investors, this is a failure. Investors give you money, and you promise to give them more back later. Only way that works is if you increase your profits by more than the interest of the loan. Lending is a powerful economic tool but it can easily go awry, and it tends to create...

Of course. Thinking about the google trend statistic, I don't honestly think it's as predictive as we're making it out to be. We have the anomaly of COVID-19 causing a paradigm shift on top of the already established rising popularity of both the game and the entire medium as an accepted...

There's a lot of angry 1 star reviews on this book. The ML powered popular phrase picker for the review aggregator has singled out "nothing new," "waste of money," and "cash crab" as popular phrases in the reviews. If anything, it looks like there's a passionate fan community out there that is...