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Part of the social contract of 5e is that the PCs will not flee from combat, and that the GM is designing all combats to be winnable. Even "Deadly" encounters should be easily within the capabilities of most parties. 5e is an attrition game. The choice of whether or not to flee is not made...

The best weapon for a magic user to wield is 2-3 hirelings. You're a skinny dude in robes. Buy some beefy boys and send them into danger for you!

The Deadly threshold is only 1/3 of the XP budget of an adventuring day. An encounter meant to be a sole encounter for a day ought to be triple the XP of the deadly threshold. For example, a single encounter for the day for four Level 5 PCs could be 6 CR 4 monsters, 4 CR 5s, a trio of CR 6s...

My dungeons and dragons adventures tend to involve Dungeons. Most have had 4-6+ encounters per long rest, easily. I don't think I've ever once run an adventuring day with only a single combat encounter. Even when I'm running other adventure styles than dungeon crawls. An example - I ran a...

I really like this as an implementation of the classic pf1 concepts into the new system! Additionally re: the name change - the inquisitor name evoked a more specific concept than Vindicator does, and excluded itself from some of the more popular and iconic deities, namely shelyn or desna.

And this is exactly what they're hoping people will do again with 5.5

Oh don't worry, tons of people edition war over the minor differences between those too

I haven't felt the need to significantly house-rule OSE. It works pretty well out-of-the-box.

Because Kelsey liked it better that way. The point is that this isn't an outlier design feature of SD - other successful games do similar things.

Each crawling round is a chance for each PC to do a single thing. It's so that the PCs have a limited number of actions they can accomplish before checking for additional danger. The Black hack is another OSR game which uses both a real-time timer and also cares about crawling rounds.

they know the fans will do the work for them for free

A particular 3PP that I enjoy is planning to fully update their offerings to 5.5 and publish new products for 5.5 in the future - which means essentially I won't be able to use anything else they put out. Which sucks for me.

I think 5e is a better game than 5.5

Obviously the morally correct choice is to slaughter and pillage the Keep instead.

What can I say, they won - and so did we.

Putting aside the fact that what WotC did with the OGL was significantly more egregious than what Paizo did in this scenario. Paizo put something out publicly, immediately opened communications channels with major players with concerns (The pf2 Foundry team, for example), then put out a...

The license change was aligning Paizo with the industry standard used by most other ttrpg companies. To keep the CUP in addition to the FCP based on customer feedback is a great move for fans, and far more than Paizo should be expected to give.

Automatically updated with the specific exceptions of: class, subclass, race, background, feat. Most notably all spells and equipment will be updated, but this will also affect anything which hyperlinks to any rules elements updated in the 2024 rules (ex: grappling) Anything from a book that...

The UX is going to be painful on purpose in an attempt to force everyone to upgrade to the new books.

Anyways, reminder that you do not own anything digital unless you have it saved on your own hard drive and can access it without an internet connection. Further reminder that Piracy is Media Preservation.