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But don't dare suggest this new edition is a cash grab

I think it's a classic case of chasing after people who don't like your game while alienating people who do like your game. And a cash grab on top. One of PF's strengths was all the classes and monsters. Now instead of having to be creative and come up with new ones, they can just sell people...

It's hard to believe that a game that uses the same terminology and seemingly touts many of the same features of its biggest competitor is merely a "coincidence" I think most people understand the situation. 5e basically stole your lunch and now you are trying to steal some of it back by acting...

To me the downside of this is that Pathfinder ecology is now essentially static or fixed. I liked how they constantly added new classes and monsters to the game. Now there really won't be new stuff. They'll just sell fans the same existing content, only now updated for PF2, for another 10...

I guess this was inevitable, but I am sort of disappointed. I actually like 3.x D&D and while I didn't play Pathfinder itself, I used a lot of its material since it was still mostly 3.x based. The way this sounds, this seems to be more 5e-ish, possibly based on the 5e SRD, not 3.5 SRD. It...

I would really like to see stats for Mr. Leslie from TOS. He was on more episodes than Sulu or Chekov (or Chapel, for that matter) and he did just about everything on the ship, from being on the bridge to security to engineering to even being in sick bay. Basically his actor was Shatner's stand...

I think one of the dangers of trying to start a game (or fictional universe in general) in local space (er, local, relatively speaking) is that we keep learning more and more about it which kinda negates the possibility of there being habitable planets. At least ones humans could live on. Like...

Well, I don't think it would be much different than a jewelry store. Guards, display cases, items actually in a vault someplace, and probably just wouldn't let just anyone in the store. A lot would depend on the store, too. I mean, it's one thing to go to Kay's Jewelers, but another to go to...

Well, as the article mentions, there were competitive tournaments for like the first 10 years of D&D/AD&D. Team goes through module, scores X amount of points. Top teams move on to the next module. Repeat 3 more times and finally you have a winning team. Balance doesn't matter because everyone...

FWIW, Yog-Sothtoh.com is basically the ENWorld for Call of Cthulhu Guns are actually kind of weird in HPL's stuff. Like in the Dunwich Horror, they are deemed useless, but apparently somehow a pistol took out Rhan-Tegoth in The Horror in the Museum. And definitely useful in The Lurking Fear and...

It probably is worth the license, but there is actually a generic version/retro clone of CoC: G.O.R.E. Since most of the BRP system was released as open content by Mongoose via their Runequest version and the sanity rules by WOTC in Unearthed Arcana you basically have the whole BRP engine, if...

Realistically, this place has never been particularly non-current official edition friendly (since the original point of the site was for new D&D news after all), most fans of those editions have other boards

To be blunt, because people who knew but said nothing is how people like Weinstein, O'Reilly, Ailes, Cosby, that college coach, that children's guy at the BBC (Jimmy Saville?), and Roman Polanski got away with it for decades, victimizing more and more people. The answer isn't to hush it up and...

Honestly, I use a random generator (namemage, which I don't think exists anymore) for the given culture that region is mimicking, sometimes making up my own tables and using them.

Well, the original KS did get $100,000 or so, which isn't exactly shabby. Especially how vague the KS was. But the thing is, he does have a track record post TSR and frankly, it's not particularly good. Have you seen his Eldritch Entertainment products? They aren't bad, mind you, but I wouldn't...

The thing is though, since it was released as open content and there are many variations on it, I'm not sure how much a new version is actually needed.

We actually have a local mythological monster here in St. Louis called the Piasa that resembles a Peryton somewhat. At least it's a winged thing with antlers.

I sometimes wonder if this is a generational thing. Growing up in the '70s, there were all sorts of dice games that involved 5 dice. Liar's Dice and Yahtzee comes to mind. Zilch/Zonk (now called Farkle) used 6, so did some others. Boggle had 16 dice (with letters, but still dice). And back...

$250,000? I was expecting something more modest, like $25,000 and even that is probably a lot. Bruce Heard's Calidar stuff was like $12,000. Frank is probably much better known, true, but Bruce was the best TSR had. (And I still if you build a setting and adapt the rules to it, you end up a...

I'm skeptical how "Red Box" compatible this could possibly be. While the core of the rules was similar to AD&D (or OD&D for that matter), it has a lot of differences as well. Things like race as class meant you didn't have things like half elves (or half-orcs). The monsters were subtly...