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I had a similar experience. Ever since about halfway through Season 2 the show has felt like it's stuck spinning it's wheels. This might be a generational thing. I was born after the 80's, I just thought the period specific stuff in the show was kind of charming. My parents were adolescents...

I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand, it's undeniable that the setting feels lighter than it's first edition incarnation. But on the other, I find there are a lot of factors that are going into that decision and I can't ultimately justify the content of the Lastwall book as being the...

I have lots of RPGs I bought just to read. Eclipse Phase is at the top of that list: it's too obscure to get groups for it with any kind of regularity, but the lore and presentation is phenomenal. Don't Rest Your Head, which is from the same company that made the game in the article, is also...

I have a sneaking suspicion games like this are designed to be read more than they are to be played. Between both my straight and gay players across multiple groups there’s no interest in a romance based game. It strikes all of us as being just...potentially super awkward, and not as fun as...

I see a lot of Pathfinder 2e players say some variation of "I want to like Starfinder but [some rule] gets in the way, I would pick it up if it got a second edition that fixed it." I have no clue if Paizo thinks if it's a good idea, but IMO, Starfinder stands to benefit from a retooling and...

I dunno, the Drift going away forever is an actual possibility. It was always kind of redundant with the Astral Plane, so I can see it being written out of the canon, especially if this is a prelude for an edition change.

Not gonna lie, I never liked rounds/day abilities. They are annoying to track since they each have their own resource pool, and depending on how they scale they either made multi-classing with some abilities the obvious default or a non-option. Heh, if this was the only thing that made 4E...

There's a certain pattern I notice some of my players get into frequently that makes me worry about them getting bored and disengaging from the game. It goes something like this: Me: "It's your turn" Player: "I walk up and attack" Me: "Do you have any bonus actions or resources to spend?"...

I have the Foundry VTT version of Abomination Vaults (which came with a free PDF) and got my Knights of Lastwall book early via subscription. Everyone who has bought it has already sung the praises of the Abomination Vaults adventure itself, but the Foundry version is next level. The maps are...

This would be great honestly, both Owlcat games have been excellent. They really like making complicated sub-systems so I hope they end up revamping the Ship building system that comes with base Starfinder.

This is an incredibly tortured interpretation of Erik Mona's statement to excise it of the very clear content and intent that @dirtypool described. You very conveniently left out the statement that subscriptions are much higher than before. If you're going to accuse someone of cherry picking...

I don't think this will ever return nor should it. A major complaint I have and see repeated with 5e is character homogeneity. Making races as classes basically takes one of the few ways you have of customizing a character and removing it entirely by folding it into the primary character...

I've been looking into converting other content into PF2e and one of the sticking points for me is creating random encounters. Because of the tight math of PF2e rolling on a table that has wildly differing encounter levels is not desirable. Thankfully the encounter math works in our favor as...

More so than redundantly themed areas, I expect the reason planescape is a no-show is that it's probably considered too heady for what WotC envisions their player base as. These are a set of designers and writers that constantly endeavor to a) attract new players and b) dumb down or remove...

It might be a cost thing. I remember in an interview Matt Mercer was talking about his Wildemount book and how one of the pieces of feedback from Wizards of the Coast was "this is too much, don't give us this many pages next time." If there wasn't a cost reason for that then I have no freaking...

If I'm running a game, I assume most of the responsibility, but there's a couple of things I expect from players and quickly get peeved if they don't meet their obligations on: -Players should know what their own character is, what it can do, and generally be ready to answer questions I or...

It isn't like they're statless horrors, they're just given generic NPC or monster stat blocks from the MM. I know that Strahd's statblock is basically the same with it being copy-pasted from Vampire Wizard, but at least that's a higher level enemy. Some Darklords are given statblocks from CR 1...

There’s always the Proficiency Without Level alternate rule that greatly expands the range of creatures you can face. It makes level+4 enemies not a death sentence, and level-4 enemies not a complete joke. It’s trivial to apply it in Foundry, you just check a box in the settings and it’s...

Come join the PF2e crowd then, we get new setting and rule books all the time. Alternatively, fan settings for 5e are done much better IMO. Keith Baker's non-WotC work for Eberron is fantastic for instance. The third party scene is so vast and has some real gems in it, do you really need...

This is a train of thought I see crop up a lot in PF2e discussion: player and monster math never goes bonkers, so the fights can never go crazy and they'll all be the same. In practice I don't find this to be the case at all. First is the dramatic effects of crit successes and fails...