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And it's going to be working overtime for a few days/weeks/months, quite possibly ;-P

Interesting that Paizo is getting out of (new) pawn sets, but Pinnacle's launching a few new ones. I love them!

I homebrew too much stuff that never sees light at the table. I enjoy rules lite to rules medium at most, erring toward the lighter side. Games with tons of character options that lead to mechanical widgets I have to know as the GM are problematic. 3e/Pathfinder is way too complex. 5e started...

Own it, played it, and used it as a starting point for my very own retroclone, Astonishing Super Heroes. Here are my thoughts on FASERIP: It's great, overall. There's definitely a sense of "re-balancing" but more so a lot of "standardizing" of how powers work. But the with the clearly spelled...

I'm surprised we're not hearing a lot more about how D&D Beyond will expand into solo-play that isn't entirely video game-like. I feel like that's a no-brainer for getting more player-side purchases. Just think of all the people (players mostly, but certainly DMs, too) that have a handful (or...

Even the "end of edition" releases for 3e and 4e were clearly products they hoped would do big numbers in light of a new edition's announcement: big compilation books, or efforts for products that are sort of "evergreen" titles for that edition, or that don't depend a lot on edition. I think an...

I'd argue that makes it a stronger contender, because IME the Realmsian archmagi and mythal-based magic (as well as Spellfire and all sorts of oddities that are probably not in the Grey Box, to be fair) rarely follow the established rules. Therefore, they seem to beg "NPC exceptions" or more...

That's what I would do. If you want to get a bit more of the "epic heroes" feel rather than "scrappy mercenaries", simply add 5e's death save mechanic and/or the short and long rests mechanics or some variation of them.

Even if you do only PDF orders your billing address is associated to it.

Is that salary for real?

Thanks for clarifying! I'm sorry if I added to any drama with my cynicism.

I'm not a math guy, but here's a wonderful discussion of dice probabilities with the math done out. As for distinctions, here's the text straight from the Cortex Prime Game Handbook: As with every Cortex rule, assume there will always be exceptions: Distinctions are not required to play a...

I certainly don't assume they are fools. I do, however, assume people don't understand all of the possible consequences of the legal text of licenses, especially when trying to combine two different licenses to make something they can charge money for. The number of times I've seen the OGL or...

Not to be a cynic, but I can't believe for one second that WOTC would let this fly. Maybe "checked in and got no response, so let's do this!" but I just can't envision a world in which WOTC would allow this without contracts, and in those contracts, stipulate some very specific language that...

I just checked Keith's twitter (@HellcowKeith) and notably that retweet is no longer appearing. Might have been an automated or accidental "Retweet this because it says Eberron" situation. It ain't there now, though, so let the reading between the lines commence in earnest!

Leverage was developed at the same time as Smallville as the first of the "Cortex Plus" games. So it's not considered part of the Classic games. The missing game was the first iteration of Demon Hunters (not the one with the "Comedy of Terrors" postscript).

You've got a lot of good discussion going on here, but I'll add my take for whatever it's worth, on a few of the questions (though not all): The general system is opposed dice rolls. Keep two and add them together to get a Total, keep a third to use as an Effect. Often, the players must "beat...

Keith Baker retweeted it. Given his relationships, that would suggest at least the possibility that there isn't a legal issue with this (yet), and maybe even that it was done by checking in with the proper channels.

Well, they've straight up said "there is no canon except the 5e canon," so if they want to rewind to pre-Faction War, and then mote it be! They've already retconned/reimagined/etc. Ravenloft plenty, and it sounds like Dragonlance is going to be setup with Dragonborn and the like as if they were...

I 100% agree. Since they are happy to kill some canon, it'd be great to roll back away from the Faction War and post-FW garbage and really lean into "here's how to do a citycrawl in a really bizarre city full of portals, and here's a bunch of really, really solid factions, locations, and...