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I'm still at time in my life where things move so much from month to month that I hardly ever attain the goal I set myself at the start of the year, but I end up in a different and unexpected place with plenty else to show.

There's absolutely some benefits to having a very simple process. But for me the process of 5E is way too streamlined and uninteresting. The reality is that the players have almost no say in their skills and they barely increase over time. There's a bit of you made these choices during character...

Someone told me the book was merely a rearrangement of the bestiary parts of Volo's and Mordekainen's and not a brand new monster books. How true is it?

It's not the same in every country. A few generations ago, in Canada (or at least the french-speaking part of it) the common term people used moved from Indians to Amerindians. Nowadays we use the term First Nations or autochtones which basically means Indigenous in English. It's just...

The fact that the study of indigenous cultures is still called that in the US is in itself a problem.

It was one of my first thread on ENWorld. The vast majority of popular YouTube channels about D&D are really bad. I also found very few articles worth anything. The world of blogs is really good though, I found several dozen great blogs about TTRpgs.

Anyone has experience running M-Space? It looks interested, but the previews are pretty limited on DriveThruRPG and I have a hard time finding some reliable information as to what type of sci-fi game it is and what to expect.

I'm very curious about the next WoD releases. I just hope they really improve the editing and layout of the books. I thoroughly enjoyed the content but I found it near impossible to peruse effectively through it during play.

I'd like to nominate Orbital Blue by SoulMuppet Publishing (KS Link). Backed the Kickstarter, saw a preview. But I haven't received my copy yet! It'll likely become available in 2022 if I had to guess. I'm very excited.

Forbidden Lands does promote the use of a Stronghold with things to improve, their cost and a list of resources. There's also tables to roll on while the PCs are away.

That's true. But when you sit down with a player to have them choose a spell, they still face 5, 5000 or 5000000 options that they, theorically, have to go through to make a well-informed decision. It doesn't add rules, but definitely adds weight. It's a matter of perspective, but for me, if you...

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I'd argue that none of the ability scores is intended to cover the actual senses. The closest you'd have to that would be to be proficient in the Perception skill. Ability scores don't need to cover everything. But I'm not saying this because I don't like the idea of using wisdom for ranged...

I'm not so sure about that. First of all, the proficiency bonus goes to +6, which is higher than the modifier of a maximum of +5. Secondly, we have to take into consideration that D&D characters are not regular people just being good at something. As soon as you move into high ability scores...

Wisdom is not your senses per say. It doesn't mean you have better eyesight or a better hearing. It's closer to a natural awareness or good intuition. Or at least that's how it's presented.

I fully agree. This is why I don't buy premade adventures. Most of the time, it's a neverending stream of prose of things I don't care about and you have to read dozens and dozens of page to get a few nuggets of useable material. I think separating fluff and lore from the actual content is a...

They're not rules. But I definitely consider options when I evaluate the weight of a game. The rules of Starfinder are not insanely more complicated then 5E. But considering it has two books and half worth of options for weapons, armors, etc; and it has several hundred feats. It absolutely...

The issue (or question) came up in almost every single campaign I ran. I think the most notable example is when a player is being a bit cryptic about his past and another one ask a question that leads to an insight roll (in D&D). With NPCs, as I think most people do it, the result on their roll...

I think it's one of these things that's useful for understanding a product before you had the chance to play with it. Just like someone can go on a board and ask does anyone know a game that explores this genre someone can go and say I'm not into rule-heavy games, anyone has something a bit...

I've always severely gravitated towards pretty conventional races. I'd say a solid 75% of my characters were either humans or dwarves. The only unusual race I've enjoyed and came back to several time is Lizardfolk. Can't really find a logical reasoning, but I think they're awesome. Led me to...