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Ptolus is brilliant for an urban campaign. Expensive, mind The Kalamar setting has a fair bit of material that is somewhat sandboxy. For Pathfinder, Varisia as a whole is pretty sandboxy. Its the setting for several adventure paths and there are lots of modules set there too. It combines into...

If you want actual practical weapons then your best bet is probably to just stick with real historical weapons. If you add in all the ones actually used by various different cultures on at least a semi regular basis in actual combat conditions then you do come up with a (still quite large) set...

That is 60% of the people who downloaded the playtest materials and provided feedback. It is pretty much guaranteed that, in general, the people who participated in the playtest AND were sufficiently satisfied to provide feedback are going to be more enthusiastic than those who didn't. No idea...

I'm not sure that I agree. In my opinion the best game for over the top cinematic action is Feng Shui. This games does NOT have encounter or daily powers. There are some powers (mostly Fu powers) that use an in game resource that limits how often they can be used but other powers can be...

There definitely are some women gamers who don't have such stories. But the ones that I quickly canvassed play (or played) only at private games with friends (or friends of friends). I want to be absolutely explicit that I am in no way doubting your stories. I'm just hoping (and presently...

While its no longer quite as good a deal (doubtless due to the recent rise in Royal Mail charges) I find that bookdepository.com is often the cheapest way to get things in Canada. I got my Pathfinder books from them for substantially less than they would have cost through amazon or my FLGS. It...

It is absolutely disgusting that any of these things occurred. And there is absolutely no excuse for it happening. But I'd REALLY like to think that they're the very unusual outliers. I've been gaming since 1979 and I've NEVER seen anything even approximating that occur. Not in all male groups...

While I completely agree with and understand your joke, the pedant in me has to point out there while there is WAY too much cheesecake art there is also a fair bit of beefcake art with lots of men almost as unrealistically armoured as the women.

Because it sounds interesting, and the authors are very good designers :-) Given the authors and the fact that it actually WAS fairly widely playtested you can expect the authors to do (at the very least) a competent job of accomplishing what they set out to accomplish. But absolutely no game...

There is another thread discussing the game. Its definitely NOT old school. http://www.enworld.org/forum/news/324950-13th-age-discussion-love-letter-best-parts-d-d.html

Also note that, at first, the only pdf you'll get will be the Playtest pdf. The completed version and final version will come out later (you'll get them for free, of course, just there will be a delay). At the risk of sounding like a corporate shill, I was impressed enough with the playtest...

Like so much of 13th Age a lot of this is very much up to the GM and the group. A significant portion of 13th Age is a rules light story telling game operating by a combination of group consensus and GM fiat. I hate the term "Mother may I" but it certainly has aspects of that. As written, this...

The last I checked they were hoping to have it out for August (Gencon, presumably). Which I'd guess is at least a year ahead of DndNext. They were working on it before DndNext was announced. And while there is definitely some overlap in goals and approaches it is a very different game with very...

No Non combat related Some but not too much. But there well might be more in the final version. If you mean campaigns and rules, very convertible. If you mean existing adventures. then definitely less so.

I have no association with the game or with Pelgrane Press other than as an external playtester. I assure you that what I'm saying is my honest opinion.

I was also involved in the second Playtest. I pretty much support everything that Isaac said. One thing that I'd add is that the game is deliberately designed so that it is quite straight forward to mix and match this with other games, especially other D20 games. It would be quite possible to...

While I'm obviously in the minority (at least in this thread) I loathe this. I want my characters to become visibly more skilled as they advance in levels, I want creatures that used to be a threat to become irrelevant, I want there to be monsters that a village working together can NOT destroy...

Out of vague curiosity what would you value those minis at?

One does have to give credit to WOTC for their commitment to total and utter technical incompetence. Others can only aspire to their ability to totally and utterly muck up the simplest of tasks.

Combine the two. We Be Goblins is great fun. Just run it with DndNext rules. Change the races to goblins, add in the flavour, change the names of the monsters. Done.