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Demons are probably not the best gauge of power in 1e, as they were essentially ported over from OD&D, despite AD&D characters being much tougher (at least fighters, with more hit points and improving their to hit every level. 2e buffed them up quite a bit. Anyway, I think this overstates...

Apparently there are (or were) two different Wiecks and the one heading Nocturnal was Stewart, who apparently passed away last summer, and his widow now owns the company and Stephan is now acting as publisher. So I guess that explains a lot.

A few years ago I read an interesting book called "Sky People" by Ardy Sixkiller Clarke, which was written by an American Indian woman who traveled throughout Central America collecting stories about UFOs. Basically a recurring theme to the stories was that many people thought their ancestors...

Realistically, the differences between 0e through 2e (including basic) were details about the classes. In the latter days of 2e, there were compilations of spells and magic items from all the previous editions. And some of the 2e splatbooks had the 1e classes as options. The power level of...

Supposedly Stephen Wieck and his Nocturnal Media picked up the license but that was 2 years ago and nothing, so I'm guessing it's dead. https://www.nocturnal-media.com/blog/2016/5/5/a-spanish-invasion-of-roleplaying-games?rq=East%20Mark

Isn't 16 GB of ram kinda a huge amount? Most newish games need 8 and recommend 12. But requiring 16? I would actually be more interested in this if that were the case. It would fit the kitschy style of Freeport (as developed in products past the original 3 module trilogy)

I just hope he has a lot of money saved up. Or uses Kickstarter.

Honestly, if anything, I think NWPs should have been d100% like thief skills You actually saw this in the Buck Rogers RPG< which was basically 2e in space. Basically you had skill % plus related ability score (like a 15 dex would give a 15% bonus) plus a class bonus, and then multiply by...

I am a fan of TFT, but I am kinda suspicious about his newly rediscovered love of the game. Seems like he just wants to run another huge kickstarter like Ogre. Which is certainly his right, after all he wrote the game. But it seems to me if he really liked it, he would have tried to do what...

Before Warhammer they imported games from the US and sold them. Then they became the official distributor for TSR in the UK and have very close relations with TSR, but then they started publishing game from other companies (Chaosium in particular), their own RPGs (Judge Dredd was I think their...

Half-Orcs and Half-Elves are literally a legacy of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings (though half-elves do appear in mythology and I think at least one king in Scandinavia was supposedly a half-elf). Any further details is really up to your determination (or the setting's creator) But if you look to...

Just some random observations Things like this really aren't witch hunts, because witches (no offense to Prof. Murray) didn't actually exist. Whereas men harassing women do exist The burden of proof isn't the same as that of a court, because no one is wanting to imprison him. The main goal is...

The problem with adventures written for LotFP is that because the game basically has a flat attack progression, monsters tend to have a very small range of ACs, basically from unarmored (12 in LotFP I believe) to plate (18, I think). That same is actually sort of true for 5e, while it can vary...

Yeah, my winner would be the 2e book. I mostly run 1e but I use the 2e book because it's got everything (and the monsters are actually meant for AD&D, while many of the original MM's monsters were just from OD&D without conversion which meant they were underpowered compared to 1e characters who...

As someone mentioned, Pathfinder goblins are sort of obnoxious like kender were/are, except maybe more destructive. Part of this is really a player problem, people will play a goblin (like a kender) just to be annoying. But it's also giving those players some supposed justification to be...

It's kind of obvious that the bestiaries will have some new monsters, but what percentage is the real question. It wasn't really until Bestiary 4 that they really started having most of the book being new monsters.

Well, considering the whole point of Pathfinder in the first place was to cater to people who didn't want to move on from 3.x, it shouldn't be surprising is some PF fans still want a game with 3.x mechanics

To me though, the point of a level based system is that higher level characters are more experienced and better able to survive/cope with adventures. Not that they are better at everything. Or that in order to be great at something, you had to be high level. But separating the two generally...

Another thing you have to watch out for if using stock art, is some artists have a one use only bit in their license. I blew $10 on a nice piece of art only to find that out. Now I'm afraid to use it for fear of wanting to use it for a reason project down the line. This is really my fault, but...

Is this really that exciting? I mean, now instead of releasing products for 5e and PF1 and maybe a third system like Savage Worlds or S&W, 3rd parties will now release them for 5e, PF2, and maybe a third system. To me the most interesting thing will be if this brings make a lot of the former PF...