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Sometimes I'll have 'magic shops', but most times they will be broken out like this: Alchemists, who sell the stuff you can make with Craft: Alchemy Apothecaries, who will sell some common potions and some alchemical items (almost always curative ones), as well as mundane materials Arcanists...

As if 5E was somehow magically different than previous versions? AD&D - 2hp Wizard. I fall trying to climb out a first story window. 1d3 damage. Dead. And you thought housecats were deadly... AD&D 2E - 10hp Fighter. I slip on the icy mountain path leading up to the first adventure. They don't...

I hope many of these things don't get added, replaced or overturned in the first magic supplement.

City of the Lost, and Dead Things are two magic-noir urban fantasy books by Stephen Blackmore set in the same universe but not crossing over any major characters, yet. It has a very gritty, greasy, LA-underbelly feel to it. Terms of Enlistment follows our 17-yo welfare rat's decision to escape...

One thing I might have wished ported in from Arcana Unearthed: the ability to break apart and combine spells slots. Break a third level slot into a 2nd and a 1st, or 3 1st. Combine a 1st and 2nd into a single 3rd level slot. Something like that. I also loved the idea of common, uncommon and...

My own experience was this for the first 20 years I played D&D: the 'perfect rules storm' was still possible, but it mainly was the province of spellcasters. Each spell was practically a separate little rule in and of itself, since there was so little cohesion between them. That very lack of...

Our little part of the world may have viewed it similarly. During all the years I played AD&D at the game shop, or when talking with others who came in and out of there, never once did I encounter anyone running or playing in a Basic D&D campaign. SOMEONE was, because boxes would be purchased...

I like how some spells do more damage/more effect/more targets/whatever when prepared at higher levels. Prevents us from having five separate cure spells, ten separate 'do damage to a guy with fire' spells, etc.

Loved it, but now I think Sword Art Online is a better western-like fantasy adventure experience. The Tower of Druaga is not bad, either.

I really enjoyed The Redemption Engine. After that was Skin Game, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Then Terms of Enlistment, a military SF novel by Marko Kloos. I'd urge everyone who likes military SF to pick it up. It's not a gun-porn/heavy equipment fest, but instead a slice-of-life type of book...

It looks like they are following the path you should for the Effect: test, test and test again to eliminate influences that might be skewing the numbers and making you think there is something there when there is not, and involve other parties to see if they can replicate the effects.

This kind of thing is where Stuff That Happened In Your PC's Past can come in handy. Not knowing the details of the setting, I'll use Traveller as an example. One of the PC's has an Old Service Buddy in the police agency of the planet. The Police Agency, as do all good security agencies, gets...

Look at some of the introductory scenarios, or the adventures for bare beginners - use those to teach the game rules and to set up a different set of expectations. Death can come very quickly even from human sources, and there is little or no way of healing yourself quickly even with magic...

In most pre-industrial societies that's called a 'self correcting problem'. People who misuse their powers die or are horribly injured, and serve as an example to others.

Actually, the only reason it's hard to run a maximum security prison is that we consider prisons places to rehabilitate people, and we're also concerned about undue cruelty. Their are several ways to make prisons inescapable if you throw both of those considerations out the window. Elves, being...

Finished up Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch, went on to City of the Lost by Stephen Blackmoore, and just started on The Redemption Engine by James L. Sutter.

I was quite pleased with my experience playing this game. We had a small group with Captain America, Quasar, a mutant I cannot remember, and Nightcrawler. All in all, I was pretty impressed with the way things would flow back and forth between the players and GM as far as forming dice pools, how...

Most D&D settings I see are not feudal/medieval anyway - they have a range up to just pre-industrial-revolution. What I use most commonly, though: The rule of man is more important than the rule of law. Kings rule because they are kings, and they have the biggest army. Pre-gunpowder, for...

You might want to mention that much of With Great Power will be rolled into the new 'Icons: The Assembled Edition', coming out this summer.

I really liked it, especially Quicksilver's (who has already been picked up for the next movie with much larger role) sequence and the continuing rift between Xavier and Eric. The fascinating aspect about their entire 'thing' is that both of them are right and both of them are wrong, and I think...