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Yeah this, 100%. Crafting is, in my preferences, a story element rather than a part of the routine 'win the next fight' gameplay loop. I mean, The Crystal Shard, which was the first ever D&D novel i read and was what sucked me into the whole hobby in the first place, has an important scene...

Does anyone have any recommendations for alternate crafting rulesets? My PCs (3rd level) are thinking about brewing some healing potions, but are finding the rules for crafting so thoroughly discouraging that they're wondering whether it's worth the bother. An entire full-time work week to...

Oof, after a bit more of a look into it, I'm a no for backing Victoriana. Shipping to Australia is more than the cost of the book. There's a gameshop not too far from me that stocks C7 stuff, I'll try to pick it up once it's released to the general market. Have any other habitual KS-backers...

Pretty sure I've made something VERY similar to this thread before! Although i was more raising the possibility of making it a player choice rather than a flat-out change in casting stat. https://www.enworld.org/threads/alternate-caster-stats.697271/ I'd go with allowing Wis sorcerers and Int...

Holy … they FINALLY actually got around to kickstarting Victoriana?! That’s been vapourware and promises and missed deadlines for literal years, I’d given up on it.

I run that if your target is benefiting from a cover bonus to AC, and if you miss by an amount less than the cover bonus, then you hit the cover. Often that'll have no effect at all, but if it's one of your allies obscuring your view of your target, or something flammable getting in the way of...

I think it must vary by location. I'm on a facebook 'looking for game' group for my city, and every time I've posted there I get multiple expressions of interest within a day, even for my weeknight in-person game in a hard-to-get-to far-flung outer suburb. Trying to find a DM - now THAT'S...

Oof, Manifest has pretty priced itself out of my purchases due to its shipping rates. Nearly double the physical pledge cost to get the thing to Australia, even at the most basic pledge level. Yeah, i know there's still the pdf option, but I kinda irrationally hate those...

Barbarian: cut World Tree, put another new non-magical subclass in there instead Bard: not sure which I'd cut, but a bard subclass based on actual singing is about a decade overdue Cleric: no complaints Druid: looks ok actually, Sea is really a weather druid which was kind of a gap before...

I’d do it. The lack of feats would be my biggest complaint, it really makes it hard to build a character towards your vision without those sometimes. But I could do it. Plenty of race options. The subclasses are restrictive, and unfortunately include lots of many bad or boring options...

I'm looking at these three. Doesn't look too hopeful for poor old Fabled Empire though. Monsoon in particular interests me. We haven't got a heavily SE-Asian inspired setting that I know of, and this looks to carry a lot of Thai, Indonesian etc influences.

Session was … one of the tricky ones. Diplomatic negotiation got blown up pretty thoroughly by one player (new to the group) playing in an entirely in-character but disruptive way, and another (not new to the group but only just starting to come out of his roleplaying shell) kinda stampeding...

Well, they’ve made some improvements but I think they’re fatally hamstrung by the decision not to just junk the fatally flawed 2014 bard and start again from scratch. Bards shouldnt be full casters, and bardic abilities being completely divorced from the Performance skill (or other skills, in...

That apology tour soured me on WotC almost as much as the OGL fiasco in the first place. Nothing says 'our regret is sincere and we have genuinely learned lessons' quite like blatantly lying to the faces of the people you're supposedly apologising to, while you're supposedly apologising to them.

True. I normally think of it as held for ransom access, though…

Aargh, yeah, of course they were. Derp. That's who i meant. No i didn't, I put them in my first post in the thread ;)

The Animals of Farthing Wood Wind in the Willows Peter Rabbit/Enid Blyton There’s a quite large body of source material to draw from, especially if you include the ‘animals that talk living animal lives’ genre as well as the ‘talking animals that also walk upright and wear clothes and live in...

Oh, if WotC took this concept and made a whole sourcebook around the idea of 'non-fighting D&D' and chucked in half a dozen pages of rules and some DM guidance about how to make it work, and then made Bloomburrow the setting for it (like Ravenloft is the 'horror D&D setting') then I'd be all...

I know nothing about Bloomburrow, and that certainly sounds like something kids could have fun with, but running a game like this using D&D (or even an adaptation) seems a bit like smashing a square peg into a round hole. D&D is at base, a game designed entirely around killing stuff. While...

Did anyone else see the World of Darkness documentary, about the rise (and fall) of White Wolf? It was a bit of a weird watch, because the filmmakers focused so heavily on very deeply-immersed and expensively-costumed Vampire LARPers (who, let's face it, are a very small portion of the player...