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If I may field a few questions... 1. What is the PC power level and growth? Let's say... Incompetent humans (WFRP ratcatcher) Competent humans (most games nowadays) Zero-to-hero (d20) Street superheroes (Daredevil, Batman) City heroes (flight, energy rays) As for the growth: Minimal...

Everway Silver Anniversary Edition https://www.everway.com/ It's technically out for Kickstarter backers. I have the physical copy already :) Orbital Blues by SoulMuppet Publishing https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/365815/Orbital-Blues-A-Space-Western-RPG Honorable mentions (these products...

Kult. Or Doctor Who with a variation on a perception filter.

There are two incredible scenes in Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson that immediately came to my mind. The first one is meeting the bank. A guy in a room - no fancy offices, just a person you talk to. Another one is the judge that adjudicates a case - another personal meeting, two short...

I'm glad things are going well for you, I'm also fine, and let's end it at that... well, maybe with this: Occupational Safety and Health standards are there for a reason.

Shadows & Showdowns by Son of Oak This is a GM's toolkit book. It contains 312 pages of goodness: 6 new themebooks. Support material for developing characters further (alternatives, tropes). Overlooked attractions - some incredible stuff to spice a game. More movers and shakers - the weird folk...

(in response to my post) As an employee, I feel deeply moved by "subjected to untenable crunch conditions on a regular basis" (Paizo - Paizo Workers Unionize). This is backed by all people who signed the original petition. WIRED, Tabletop RPG Workers Say Their Jobs Are No Fantasy I would...

Yes, I just read the release in several different places googling for related stuff and picked one of the sources.

Nope, I'm just googling Paizo goings-on from time to time. Once at a time I have been prone to investing like 40 manhours per session in PF1 game, and so I naturally became emotionally invested in the company, purchasing one book after another, reading news and participating in some community...

Well, I liked these systems a lot more than PF1 and PF2, and their game prep was also smaller (while I agree that high level game prep for PF2 is surprisingly low when compared to PF1, I still feel that player-facing part requires too much effort). They are not necessarily superior, just less so...

Not gonna comment on the first part of your post aside from this: everyone's entitled to their opinion, and my experience is positive (I have been employed for over 25 years now, and worked as contractor and full time employee in places with and without union presence). Regarding Paizo - the...

Unions do not kill businesses. They are there to improve working conditions (and frankly, in the time of COVID pandemic, many companies were initially rather lacking in this regard). The Paizo union initiative is a clear and well-thought appeal for reasonable treatment of people - and all...

Er, the systems I have quoted were to prove that at the time Paizo published their milestone products, there were other systems on the market that were more in tune with design tendencies. For recently released examples of modern fantasy design...

Umm. So you agree with me that PF2 seems dated, and that 4E is not "stellar modern design". Thank you.

I do hope you're right and it's just me being unreasonably negative. Still, as the saying goes, there is no smoke without fire, and the fact that Paizo staffers attempts to unionize themselves, means that something's rotten in a state of Denmark. 4E being stellar example of modern design? It...

At Paizo, managers participate in creative process. You know their names, they also feature prominently on the covers of their products. In other words, you have people who work both as creative staff and as senior management. Do you see the potential issue here? Were the sacred cows in PF1...

(written in reference to my previous post) Agreed on that - I took a lot of shortcuts there. Still, as a person who was a part of Paizo community before the Pathfinder, I feel justified taking them. Shortcut #1. Pathfinder kept a lot of sacred cows from 3.5. From Paladin's alignment, through...

(rant warning) Presence of a formally recognized union serves to balance interests of various parties - it's not that the management has bad intentions, or that the union reps are perfect - it's just that management role is naturally dominant in a work environment. After all, they are the...

Which one was that? Maybe I could use it for a detox movie session :)

If only they skipped on Power Rangers and tangible ignorance thingy. I have been traumatized by Ridiculous Rita, Baldon, fetish costumed extras and oh-so-many tropes of this genre. It's like candies that fry your brain. Anyway, the two other projects mentioned sound incredibly promising, so...