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Abomination Vaults by Paizo. Abmonation vaults hardback for 5e Kingmaker by Paizo. (Note you need both to run it in 5e). Kingmaker AP Hardback Kingmaker 5e bestiary

I can only offer personal opinion in this. I think Cyberpunk 2020 did a good job of showing the lethality of combat, but also the lethality of firearm combat. Star Frontiers (alpha dawn) also had a good way of showing escalating damage from lasers and such with energy usage. Some of the...

I'd also say, personally, try to maximize your usage of all actions. Don't let it go to waste. Especially with spellcasters. It's easy at times to just use a spell that uses some actions, but then forget to do anything else. Think of something to do

Well, traditionally, that's what Witches and Warlocks did. Faust himself, kind of an evolution of that idea...isn't shown to be all that successful in the end (well, if you discount the VERY end with the intercession in Goethe's rendition). Lovecraft also shows examples where the end result...

Traditionally, since the 19th century, selling your soul for power has always been seen as some foolish faustian stupidity. Warlocks would seem to be the epitome of this. Their prime stat is Charisma...not Wisdom.

Not necessarily....you can make them unique in some way. For example...for Half-Elves you could say something like... Ability to blend in - Being part of two different cultures has made it so that you've had to learn to adapt on the fly in many occasions. Because of this when you are...

Or they make a bargain with some shadowy figure they do not really understand. Something otherworldly has offered them power...and they took it while in ignorance who what and who they were really dealing with. Only as they have increased in power and knowledge (level 3) do they finally...

I like it better than having to kill everything. You can place higher and more dangerous monsters watching treasure which your party needs to learn how to obtain without engaging the treasure's guardian. You can have other ideas about treasures and things when the objective is to get the...

I haven't played the remastered version, but I have played 2e. The thing to look out for is that fights can quickly turn out to be more deadly and dangerous than an equivalent fight in 5e. An uncautious DM could quickly cause a TPK to a party that's not prepared for how tough a challenging...

May I introduce you to something called BECMI. Basic, Expert, Companion, Master...and Immortals...but Immortals doesn't really fit into this conversation. Basic introduced you to...well...the basics of the game. Expert introduced more rules. Companion REALLY introduced some massive new...

Naw, it depends on HOW you played them. They would lose abilities, but they still could be played like tanks, especially if you used C&T. I had a couple PC's in my groups that were Rangers and were TANKS. Part of that was the high Cons requirement that meant that their two highest rolls went...

I addressed that. D8 started at 1st level...HOWEVER...They got 2d8 HP at first level. That means an average of 9 HP...vs. the Fighters and Paladin's 5.5 HP. They got an average of 4.5 HP each level after that while the fighters got 5.5 HP. Fighters didn't catch up on average till at least...

I think the only shows and movies that actually took D&D seriously was the Animated Cartoon (which was well received overall), the Second D&D movie (which most will say is better than the 1st, though not spectacular), and one that people normally revile the dragonlance animated movie...I'm...

This is something I've commented on before, but not directly. I've noted that D&D 2024 is more complex than 5e (2014) was. It's more than just having feats as required part of the game (no longer optional), it's some other items that have increased the complexity as well. To me, this does...

Well, the bathroom thing is a natural bodily function, soooo.... If they aren't going somewhere...I suppose they have to go...well....you know. And this is why adventurers tend to be more stinky than anyone else in the tavern.

It's not a wilderness rogue you are looking at, but the term skirmisher. I think the lightly armored started with 2e with the entire stealth and two weapon fighting requirements. That put an idea that the Rangers would not be as heavily armored as a fighter, but they were still not...

I think it was some Mercedes Lackey books I bought a while back that required a Kobo account. Those books are not really transferable to anything but Kobo, at least back then. The only thing that soothed it somewhat was that it was more for charity than for reading (because I have most of...

This is my impression. The PHB (IMO, obviously) has been selling like hotcakes. Most of those sales have been via FLGS or otherwise. Most B&N, Target, Walmarts, etc don't have the books on the shelves yet from what I've seen. They are still in processing. Anecdotally I haven't seen them on...

??? I'm not sure what you are meaning. The OGL means nothing to those who are only using the D&D books. They aren't effected by it if the license changes as far as WotC is concerned. It means a whole lot to those who are either playing games based on OGL (such as Advanced 5e for example)...

I may be, but you are still not thinking as an investor. I KNOW you have been a game publisher and TTRPG journalist for 25 years, so I am sort of surprised you haven't SEEN what I am talking about. Xbox Gamepass is out there BECAISE of this idea of expanding the service and subscriptions...