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We have one group and, aside from the occasional one-shot, we do one campaign at a time. The cast is: The GM who is system-ambivalent but likes Paizo and doesn't appreciate the way WotC treats its people The player who really likes Pathfinder and really, really likes Paizo The player who is...

They made an announcement that updates would be stopping... I think it was January, basically when they run out of content from Dungeon and Dragon going on hiatus. But it's still running and having stuff sporadically added to it now. Whether it's worth it is up to you, but they'll probably have...

It should work fine, really. I agree with some others that you might want to give casters more to do in combat, but most players could probably figure out something to do with their "utility" spells each round. Now, some players might hate it with the passion of a thousand fiery suns, but if...

The various Khyber cults from Eberron have a nice feel to them. You get to toss mind flayers and beholders in as cult leaders, plus horrific grafts. In Planescape, you could probably tie them too... the illithid god under the Outlands. I'm blanking on the name. Set and Cthulhu are also always...

Yeah, I'd cheerfully take any of the four you listed. Well, I'd probably do Ravenloft instead of Innistrad, but I'd also add several eras of Dominaria to the list. Heck, even Fallen Empires could make a great "stand against the rising tide of darkness" game. Weatherlight stuff aside, the...

I'm so glad we're in a hobby where we can get answers to questions like this, particularly without it being a he-said she-said dramafest. The reasons he gave sound reasonable to me and would probably sound even more reasonable to the people responsible for shepherding both brands. Add in the...

Looks great! And it's always nice to hear about Kickstarters actually getting things out on time :) All props to the Dwarven Forge folks. They make a sweet product. Cheers! Kinak

I don't particularly care if it's an option. I mean, I doesn't seem like it would be hard to houserule even with the current material. But, if published monsters are as complex as PCs, that zeroes out my interest in 5th Edition. My group likes tactically challenging combats. So I have four...

Interested to see what they come up with for this. If it's not a magic-user (thematically) that's easy enough for everyone to play, I'll personally count it as a huge miss... but there's no way to tell that from the article. I kind of doubt they'll have patrons and pacts explicitly say how they...

I believe there was an old article in the Duelist about using Magic cards as inspiration for you D&D games. If I remember right, one of the examples they used was Spinal Villain from Legends, which would put it back in the 2nd Edition days. Sadly, my Google-fu can find no trace of such an...

Thanks for sharing these. Cheers! Kinak

For published stuff, I've been really happy with Sandpoint and the rest of Varisia from Rise of the Runelords. Introduce the town with a bang, get people to care about it early, and make sure there are reasons to come back. Consider where they'll go after they're "done with" the town and lay...

Very similar to healing surges, the reserve pool from Iron Heroes works pretty well (basically you have a second pool of HP that you can pull from between combats to heal yourself). Storywise, I've had friendly casters provide the party with goodberries or potions. That wasn't really to balance...

Running Rise of the Runelords, about to start book 6 (assuming the players don't get themselves killed). After that, probably a short Shadowrun 5th edition or Numenara campaign. Then starting up Shattered Star. Three out of my four players freaking love Pathfinder and the fourth is completely...

That sounds pretty good. Granted, my group is in the opposite position he's planning for (I'd cheerfully run 5e, but my players don't like it), so there's probably a middle ground. Cheers! Kinak

Yeah, mapping for our group (currently in the very dungeon-crawly Rise of the Runelords) consists of one of the players saying "I map this as we go along" and then asking me questions if anything's confusing. It seems, to me at least, like the same sort of activity as setting up camp...

This is a nice change of pace from the normal Wandering Monsters article... mostly because it had nothing to do with monsters. It did a good job of laying out what they mean by "exploration encounters." Which I'd honestly figured was a euphemism for "whatever system we come up with to replace...

Congrats to everyone on the list! Between the reprints and some people surely still buying 4e, I'm not terribly surprised to see WotC still on the list. If anything, I'm more surprised FFG jumped over them. Even with new product to sell, it takes a lot to beat that sort of market penetration...

If players are going to be running a few characters each, I wouldn't do anything after 2nd. That said, I don't like running for more than 3 or 4 characters anyway. My personal preference would be towards a low-weight retroclone, but I'd grab the 2nd Edition PHB if people want to play that. You...

If you're looking for the RAW justification, it's on page 204 of 3.5 DMG, saying that a suitable mount is "At least one size category larger than the character. Also, a flying mount can carry no more than a light load aloft." Cheers! Kinak