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So this is considered "officially released" now? The comments above make it look more like the ever-popular "paid-beta". It's going to be hard to come in new to the universe of Pathfinder support products charging for something in this state. It will be interesting to see if they can make a...

You might remember that whole "Neverwinter" thing with 4E where the region book and the new game were tied together, and going back farther the whole Diablo II thing with 3E. The only 5E videogame event so far was pretty similar. I'm still a little skeptical as to how much crossover there is...

Vehicle Tip: Car and Driver has a lot of Archive type articles that can give you stats, specs, and prices on vehicles from "back in the day"

One more consideration: Did those rating a particular AP just read it? Did they run it? Did they play through it? if they played or ran how far did they get? Quite a few reviews of long adventures like these are from an "I read it" perspective and while there's some value in that, I would be a...

Beyond the 5E spike I think it's interesting that 4E and 3.5 spike at the same time. Maybe it's the Steam marketing, as becoming the official 5E platform doesn't seem like it would be a big factor there. The 4E games almost double from March to April so there's definitely some kind of impact.

If you're looking to build it into a more traditional RPG campaign then Mechwarrior (any edition) could give you some ideas on how to do that since it handles a similar situation with Battletech. Not mechanics, specifically, but structure and campaign ideas and how to integrate it with a...

As far as the setting for the Elemental Evil run, yes we know we can run them in any setting. The annoyance is in what setting WOTC chooses to support with their published adventures. If they were set in Greyhawk it would show they were committed to supporting other settings and would probably...

3 out of 5 rating for Hoard of the Dragon Queen Full review is in the link but the short version is that there is nothing especially memorable about this adventure. Add in some technical errors and it's not a terribly impressive first big adventure for 5th Edition D&D.

Well, there are - for other games - Herolab, PCGen, HeroDesigner, GURPS Character Builder, the 4E character builder, and probably some others. 5th will get one sooner or later. I'd look at this as a temporary setback, not the end of the road.

Well, that was what it was called for the first 15 years of the game so some of us still have a soft spot for it. Clearly some of us don't. :cool: In this context, I agree. If they wanted to use it was the over-arching description for other arcane casters (like "Mage" in 2E) than I could see...

There are functioning character generators out there for more complex games from 3.0 to 4.0 to Pathfinder to Champions and Mutants and Masterminds. They all pretty much enforce the rules by default, so it is entirely doable. Well, other people have done it. HeroLab does exactly this. I'm a...

If we're comparing to 4E then I don't think this is "PHB 2" - It's "Heroes of the Elemental Chaos", which I thought was pretty cool. Don't forget Red Hand of Doom, the big published adventure for 3.5. You could say it they've done it for two-and-a-half consecutive editions :cool:

They did something similar in 4E with themed releases like Heroes of Shadow, book of vile darkness, and the big boxed set for the shadow fell all releasing around the same time. Paizo of course does this all the time with a setting book and a player-focused book for each AP at least, often there...

You'll find that happens a lot with D&D. RPG's in general, really. Other games too. "We need WOTC/Paizo/Games Workshop/etc. to FAQ situation X" comes up a lot. Even when a rule is perfectly clear to you, someone out there will claim it's unclear, and sometimes they can make enough noise to spur...

QFT - this is something that gets overlooked in the discussion of light vs. heavy. Thank you for phrasing it so clearly. Some great games have a very well defined system, and the fuzziness is more about how we apply that system than how we reach a particular outcome - like 4E skill challenges...

We'll have to see the number and type of adventures they produce once the game is launched. I think that will drive sales more than the relative cost of the books. Campaign settings may also become a bigger part of sales, especially if they are well supported lines and not just a book or two...

I'm not thrilled with the covers either but since they're the same on the WOTC site I'm pretty sure they're final.

Beyond normal inflation paper shot up quite a bit a few years back but then printing in China became a thing and offset price increases somewhat too. The Pathfinder hard and softcovers are printed in China as are Games Workshop's newer-style hardcover codexes. WOTC's 4E books all say "Printed in...

I think the simplest assumption is that it's in the box, until someone says it's not. Sure, there are space limitations but it still may be in there somewhere. I think the second most likely option is that 5E DDI is available when it releases and the first 5 levels of character generation are...

D&D RPG's, novels, and video games were popular before all of those things, from the gold box games and Dragonlance in the 80's on through the Drizzt books and the Baldur's Gate games in the 90's. Game of Thrones is pretty popular right now, zombies are a big deal, pirates have occasional movies...