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So one mainstream fantasy rpg keeps the Tolkienesque clichés intact in it's various editions and suddenly all fantasy based rpg's have to ditch race as a term? How about NO. It should be quite clear that all kinds of fantasy games have ejected the Tolkien model - like Earthdawn, or Talislanta...

I was one of the playtesters (accredited in the main Kickstarter rulebook) and ran a game at the last UK Dragonmeet. I will also be running games at Games Expo this year in the UK. Some of this review is factually wrong, but not too far off generally. The system is indeed a little crunchy, but...

"It's not "damage on a miss!" -- "It's not a miss. It's a failure on the attack roll, but it's still a glancing blow..." This is hilarious - calling something 'not a miss' when it is a miss is like the Emperor's new clothes... Certain Strike has been written using the same sort of illogical...

Correct - except about the half orc choosing not to go to 1HP - this is automatic.

I'd be tempted to just get on the phone to Asmodeus who'd teleport in EVERY ONE of his cultists from across the globe and storm the place. Job done...

Cergorach you conflate two different things. The people at CR and indeed this presenter are actually all good at two things - the art of D&D, and presenting the game in a good light, as the fun group challenge it is. Your point about appearance is entirely general. The vast majority of...

There are touch based attacks in the game and touch based spells - neither of which may be successful but which count as an attack. A grapple is a touch based attack that does no damage for instance, and would break invisibility. A touch spell or natural ability which the opponent saved against...

Simplicity, the fame of the name, the fact many PC/Console games use levelling and tropes developed from D&D so it has a sustained familiarity, and of course it is generally well supported.

If you are distracting by touching or in some visual way then it drops - period. You have made yourself visible to visually distract or you have 'attacked' (a touch can be an attack in the RAW) if you touch them. If you are making a noise to distract them, then you do not become visible, but in...

I just thought of this; Have an enchantment for an Arcane Focus, Holy Symbol (or equivalent) which requires attunement but allows a single spell cast with it to have it's Concentration requirement waived as long as the focus is in the caster's possession. Item has 1 (Rare), 2 (Very Rare) or 3...

I would like to see 6e go from character classes to archetypes, and have 'sub-classes' change to customisable ability/skill trees, allowing more nuanced and yet still balanced character development without the chewy and slightly clumsy multiclassing rules.

I started playing D&D in 1978, and have played a great deal over the past 39 years. I have seen the almost entirely male-only culture of it slowly change (at some times painfully so) to be more inclusive, divesting itself of the imagery of chainmail bikinis and the 'necessary' princess to...

The system was updated to RuneQuest 6 two years ago and Design Mechanism did a fantastic job of it, it is by far the best version of the system to date. However it changed it's name to Mythras once Chaosium took the IP back to do their Glorantha-specific version. So if you want the best...

If you are talking an updated RQ d100 system - then you've missed it's release - it was called RQ6 originally but now it's called Mythras (and it's excellent by the way...); http://thedesignmechanism.com/ If by RQ you mean Glorantha-only RQ, then you don't have long to wait for that...

The decision they made (past tense) is still as impactful on everyone's game as it was the moment the HB came out. Expressing my opinion about the poor decision making and illogic involved is in no way a waste of my time, or the OPs. Perhaps you should direct your comment at the OP as they have...

Personally I think Expertise should give a flat +2, and should be available in far more limited ways to other classes.

All but the cantrip you mention are quite limited by spell slots, and few have combat uses, which spellcasters like to save their slots for. So in truth this is an invalid comparison.

Which is, frankly, a very foolish decision. They wanted an iconic spell to be 'coolaid' and all it cost them was making every other damaging spell (except a very few examples) dross by comparison. They should have thought about that decision a little longer n'est pas..?

5 x Beastmaster Rangers... hands down, no contest, every other suggestion is wrong.... lol

Hardly power gaming - it is a very costly trap that doesn't force anyone to go inside it... there are easier ways to instakill enemies at high level with elaborate pre-preparation. Force Cage with level boosted Flaming Sphere cast inside being an easy one. You even get to hear them scream as...