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Could try ICON.

Yeah, from a purely aesthetic view, AEDU sort of resembles MMO cooldowns (which, games other than MMOs have cooldowns and did in 2009), but in practice it's just.... the exact same stuff as the rest of the game structure in other editions. 3.5's "You can rage for exactly 7 rounds a day" isn't...

I think the support stuff is all much more efficient and effective than the pure damaging options... which is probably an indicator the class is well designed and versatile. You can be pretty damn good at whatever you choose to be good at. "gigantic list of class-agnostic spells" type games...

I mean, it's also got way more options for support or control baked in to class abilities than any other class - turns out you can build it basically any way you want and be happy!

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This has been a tremendously helpful thread for helping me focus in on some of my own issues I've faced while attempting to run Forged in the Dark games. Recognizing that I am allowed, or in fact encouraged to let events be "contrived" helps me orient myself better in my own GMing. Thank you...

As far as we know, the 5e Abomination Vaults is still an OGL product. As Paizo has explained, "predominately evil culture of matriarchal elves who live underground" is something entirely created by DnD, and a good 85% of the writing of them is from the 3.5 days, when Paizo intentionally played...

I wonder what world you have to live in to see a game that got monthly releases for 10 straight years and say "this was completely abandoned".

I handle NPCs in my games by roleplaying them. Asking a machine to generate the most generic word salad it can conjure up would probably worsen the experience in every way. Why do people really in to predictive text generators love to sell it so much with "you don't have to be creative anymore"?

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Beam Saber's (a Forged in the Dark game of war drama and mechs by Austin Ramsay) Drive Clock mechanic is the one I'm most facing. At creation, your character has a Drive - some major goal they want to accomplish. You add ticks to the clock by either pursuing that goal in missions or through...

simply do not make a map as large as the empire state building.

Currently these are all on track for their current releases, but a couple things may release slightly sooner than expected (though the way Paizo spoke about it those may be unannounced things).

Excited for the class revisions. Glad for the death of alignment, which is a stupid rule that only exists with mechanical ramifications because of DnD. People have been expecting Rogue and Wizard to lose their arbitrary weapon proficiencies for a long while now, so that was wholly expected...

Nope. My friends are all broke-r than me. I buy a PDF for 20 bucks, bought Foundry for 50 bucks, and we play all the live long day with free or shared resources. You won't even let your friends you're hosting have a few chips or something? Jeez.

Extraneous encounters will always exist in games where things are written assuming you're using encounter-based XP awards. It's unfortunate. Also, since you're running Quest for Frozen Flame, there is something you NEED to do: Either use ABP, or drop some striking runes yourself in loot piles...

I remember you ranting about how nobody should believe Linda Codega's reporting on the OGL situation on Reddit for similar spurious reasons. Did a newspaper kill your family?

Bloodtide, do you have anything resembling a fact to back up your take of "most players are too lazy to roleplay"?

who doesn't love to judge a book by its cover