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That's good to hear, and thanks for the update.

I like the core pathfinder rules, but the constant addition of player's guides just got really tiresome to keep track of. It's basically a game that I'm fine playing if someone is running it, but I won't touch it as a GM.

It's surprisingly difficult to write good adventures for the epic levels. Partly because there's very little inspirational material worth emulating when D&D style magic trivializes nearly every "epic" story. You generally end up just fighting a string of Big Bad CR's without any good context...

I ran a much more details survey monkey poll on this with a few hundred responses. The main trends I found were: 1. Full-time DM's largely preferred Tiers 2 and 3. They found Tiers 1 and 4 the hardest, although very few had actual experience with Tier 4. 2. Players preferred Tiers 2 and...

It's just a D&D experience stripped of any RP requirement. I'd say the modern mega-dungeon has been largely replaced with elaborate Descent-style board games, but an argument could also be made that Adventure League is essentially just a mega-dungeon where the "rooms" are different encounter...

Our Hoard of the Dragon Queen group called themselves "The Greenest Lanterns" after saving the first town.

It just does damage, which heals normally. The damage might be described as having some kind of visual flair to it (dark withered spots, like bruises or something), but mechanically nothing is special unless something about the target says otherwise.

In my experience, 5e adventures don't really run well out of the box, instead requiring quite a bit of adjustments for encounters and stuff. Since TftYP are all reprints of older stuff, I may as well just run the older stuff that I either have or can get much cheaper elsewhere. I know my...

This proposal sort of ignores the fact that surviving a (sudden and unplanned) fall of more than about 10 feet has nothing to do with any sort of skill or "level." People have survived falling out of planes that broke up thousands of feet in the air, and others routinely die just falling off...

I personally think sci-fi combat just doesn't translate to pen-and-paper games very well. For one, the common weapons have ranges that are simply too large for good fights where everyone (melee and ranged) can get into the action. For two, those weapons tend to be harder to rationalize...

The local shop doesn't need to do D&D; it's just a place where people that might possibly be interested can be found. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a community board up with other people looking for a game.

Nah, I still think the 40+ page thread about someone leaving the forums is weirder.

Isn't that the company that made the anime RPG? I think maybe 5e isn't your best bet if that's your comparison. I mean, I wouldn't call 5e a "gritty rpg" by any means, but it's never going to compare to the stuff you see going on in anime's. There's a game called Exalted that's probably more...

The game doesn't work without a DM, so if you aren't interested in it, then finding someone who is will be your #1 priority.

The starter set is all you need to actually get started, aside from people to play with. Ideally you'll have another 3 or 4 people to join you. Not sure where you live, but a good place to start is your local card shop (pretty much any local business that sells Magic: The Gathering or similar...

Specifically, they were allowed into the Realms by Ao. He's basically the key to it all, and any story where some pantheon moves in *without* his blessing and/or knowledge is breaking the FR lore in a pretty major way. That doesn't mean you can add a new pantheon (the reasoning can be vague or...

Savage Worlds if we're talking a quick session or short series of them. It's "gritty" in that death comes pretty easily, by default. That said, I don't really enjoy it for a long-haul campaign as much, because the longer you go the more character types sort of blend together. If you're doing...

I've always had problems with this site. Keep in mind that the guy(s) running it actually have both PHPMyAdmin and the VBulletin admin side accessible to the public. Furthermore, the webserver is a version of NGINX that dates back to 2010 *and* it doesn't even have a simple SSL cert. My best...

Raise more? That's literally the only purpose to Animate Dead; run around with a whole bunch of zombies and skeletons. Outside of grappling attempts or help actions, they can act as body shields against a lot of ranged attacks. Maybe there's some RP-specific scenarios that you can play into...

I think the concept of a short rest is fine, but it shouldn't be tied to class abilities. Spending HD to heal up, for example, is a pretty nice feature. It's just that when you have some classes balanced on short rests, and others balanced on long rests, the DM now needs to take that into...