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Day 1 tabletop RPG adventure reviews are like video game reviews where the reviewer watched a video of the game being played.

One option would be to tie the temp hp and the condition removal to spells. So for example, the channel divinity grants the temp hp and/or removes charmed or frightened when the cleric casts a spell on themselves or on an ally within the aura. Or maybe it needs to be a spell that restores hit...

The funny thing is that the Gamemastery Guide talks about combining encounters. It mentions how it can be dangerous, but the book also talks about how you could string low or trivial encounters together into a larger fight that is more challenging. The AP encounter framework and the cramped...

Uh, what? They came out just 3 years into 4e. They’ve existed for over a decade. Lol. They don’t count now? Does Xanathar’s content “count” for 5e since it came out even later into the edition’s lifecycle?

Common healing potions always require a surge, but 4e also has uncommon potions (cure wounds potions) that let you heal even if you don’t have any surges left. If any of that causes an issue in the fiction, it shouldn’t be any more of an issue than a high level character in 5e or 3.5 quaffing 10...

But if they do more drastic revisions, it’s not going to be compatible with the 2014 version. To be compatible, the rules have to support a game with characters made with both sets of books. That’s how 4e Essentials interacted with the 2008 books. 3.5 changed some core fundamentals that made a...

I think the new direction and the revised core will most likely take a similar approach to the 4e Essentials products as opposed to the more thorough revision that 3.5 was. They said it’s going to be compatible with current 5e. Essentials was compatible with original 4e (currently running a 4e...

I think they just use too many party level +2 and +3 enemies in the APs. But they do it because you need a certain number of encounters in so many pages, and you need to make sure the fights support the Paizo flip mat battlemap stuff, which are pretty small spaces, so fewer enemies is easier...

If they’re removing the short rest classes’ dependency on short rests and make all classes work off long rests, isn’t that kind of like (pre-Essentials) 4e where every class uses the same ability cooldown schedule? That’s a 4eism that could make it into 5.5! Speaking of abilities and fluff, I...

So for its actions the only thing it does is deal damage. Then two of its lair actions negate a player's turn. Got it. Sounds riveting.

Using officially published rules, you could get a daily attrition through stamina (because of resolve points), which you could adjust by reducing resolve recovery to 1 per day, for example. If that feels too punishing maybe the PCs have double the resolve, but still only recover 1 per day. Or...

4e has way better VTT integration on Fantasy Grounds.

Yeah, it’s not that serious. I noticed the website pics are decent enough to read when zoomed in as is. Just thought I should mention that the mobile version has issues (I thought they were too low res at first).

No further options to open the image in a new tab unfortunately, on the mobile browsers.

Maybe the game language oriented and uniform presentation of powers, plus the uniform recovery and acquisition rate of powers.

On Safari and Chrome on iOS I can’t zoom in on the pictures on the levelup site, after clicking on them.

The pictures are too low resolution, can’t read the text!

All but one published haunt allows Religion, so that’s a go-to even if you don’t or can’t know how to disable a haunt. Spirits are also not the same thing as undead in PF2; spirits can be undead, so a spirit undead could be affected by Turn Undead (which is a feat for the heal spell). But other...

I think it’d be Religion or Occultism? Even if only one PC is good at those, how’s that any different from figuring out a golem or some other specialty monster? Or disabling a mechanical trap?

Neat! Although I kind of wish its claws and horns attacks had something extra to go along with the damage. Nothing big, just a bit of added complexity (which would be fine on a tarrasque!). The same for the breath weapon. Maybe it could blind you on a failed save, or if you failed by 5 or more.