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I don't disagree with this at all, but if you're still looking for a good solution, my spouse has had a lot of luck with GoodReader on the iPad. It lets you have different documents open in tabs, keeping your place in each, so it's actually easier to cross-reference stuff than physical books...

Absolutely. At least in my experience, it makes shelf space in bookstores and game stores count way less as a form of advertising. If you need to go online to get previews or otherwise find out if the product is worth buying, it makes sense to just buy it online. Shrink-wrapping everything...

The cleric spell list has some great options for this, actually. You probably don't need to dip into the wizard list at all. I'd say Forbbidance is the big one you want. It prevents planar travel and can outright kill a lot of intruders (which, admittedly might mean you just want it on the...

I don't think you probably need to know the Pathfinder rules. Search for monsters you don't know on the PRD. When replacing NPCs, check out their tactics section and make sure the replacement has the same general feel. Personally, I would suggest creating new monsters based on the same theme...

I'm ready for a good game to use for short campaigns between Pathfinder arcs. The 5e Starter Set might do that, but it's up against Shadowrun, Numenera, Call of Cthulhu, whatever indie stuff comes out at GenCon, and just sticking with Pathfinder all the time. Barring some major shakeup in our...

I really like that they're baking in some connections between monsters and their approach on hags sounds like a great start, but the jackalwere example leaves me cold. With demon lords being assumed in the MM, but not other named gods or NPCs, those demons gain a disproportionate amount of...

Yeah, it's a lot harder to get angry at someone for requiring something when they make it available free online. Personally, I'd much rather have an online system (be it the PRD or 4e subscription) that I can search than flipping through books, even if there are only ever a few core books. So...

The blog post is here. They're basically the gods of ancient Egypt, which is nice. There's supposed to be more information coming out in the 2nd installment of Mummy's Mask as well, which may or may not help. Cheers! Kinak

Agreed. If anything in Next is going to be useful to us, it'll be the starter material. If the starter stuff is as simple as the early playtests but relatively complete, I'll pick it up. But, with WotC's track record for intro products, I'll definitely be waiting until I can give it a thorough...

I'd sacrifice rules complexity: smaller classes, fewer spells, and less corner-case rules. I basically want starter rules good enough to use for a whole campaign or a PHB simple enough to use as starter rules. But it looks increasingly like D&D Next is trying to go head-to-head with Pathfinder...

I'm looking for a simple rules set, so I guess I'm just going to be looking at the beginners box. Unless the PHB is a blatant cash grab, it'll have at least as much material as Pathfinder. I don't really need another game that complicated. Oddly, if it is a tiny book that they're charging a ton...

I flavor it based on the cleric's god. So a god of battle, they might suffer woulds from invisible opponents. A god of death, they might shrivel to bones then collapse to dust. A god of shadows, darkness might descend over the area for a moment, then when it lifts they're just gone. I do that...

I rework every monster and NPC I use from scratch, mostly so that I don't need to keep a dozen abilities in mind to run them at the intended effectiveness. I find it's time well spent because I can run the actual combats so much faster. And, because I keep things to the guidelines rather than...

"Rules Lite" is one of those terms that varies a lot from person to person. By my internal definition, the first packet was rules lite and the last packet definitely isn't. So I don't expect the final game to be rules lite. But my expectations for D&D are calibrated to the Rules Cyclopedia and...

To be fair, their guidelines are drastically different than what you'd see in 3rd or 4th Edition. They're also closer to what I'm looking for in a game, so that's nice. The question, of course, being how items will affect balance at these various levels. This is a very important point and one...

The only in-character map I'm aware of them doing so far is for Varisia. A great map, by the way, it's in Varisia: Birthplace of Legends and in poster form in the Shattered Star Map Pack. I'd certainly pick up more if they put any out, but I wouldn't expect to get in-character maps for regions...

As far as canon world maps, there aren't any. Last I heard (and this was a few years ago), the closest to a full-world map was an increasingly-smeared beach ball with the continents drawn on it in James Jacobs' office. As I understand it, they wait to really map each region until they're...

Fair enough. Consider us in complete agreement, then, I just misunderstood your intent :) Cheers! Kinak

This is the part I was commenting on. I agree there are a lot of rules that could afford to be cut. I just prefer a less-cluttered presentation where the things outside the scope of a basic game are actually cut rather than being mixed in with the text of the basic game. It may be a...

The examples in Skinsaw Murders (Rise of the Runelords book 2) shook my players up pretty badly. There are also some in book 6 that we're just getting to tonight. I'm thinking of trying a different tack with these, by giving the PCs more of a chance to choose their poison rather than just...