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I agree, I enjoy reading these and it has sent me to read some of the articles. I also like knowing a bit more of the historical context of some of the things, like the acquisition of SPI and how well that worked. Thanks!

Congrats to Owlcat games! I wouldn't mind more PF1 games. I really wanted them to do the three, er four, er, all of the PF1 APs. :LOL: What I really wanted was some of the Runelord APs to see more Varisia. I also think that two of them were written before Mythic rules, as bad as those...

Oops, yes, Mystara. Thanks! I was a bit surprised when I went looking that the paperbacks for Peterson's books are cheaper than Kindle, which is how I read Slaying the Dragon. The thing stopping me is that I wasn't paying attention to non DND stuff until '85, when my brother/DM graduated and...

Coming in late to this. On the book: I, like several others, didn't like the prose. It read like a transcript of a podcast, where each chapter was a podcast on a particular subject. I think my negative reaction is due to it being called a History book and having that word in its title...

No one did. :ROFLMAO: TSR kept trying to compete with trends. I'm sure that's typical for companies. It's too bad they didn't stay in their lane because while remembered well, they produced a lot of things that aren't around today. In the case of SAGA system, it was a card based system. I...

And magic! We didn't see much net hacking, did we? A few quick shots of people wandering some areas?

I'm with @RealAlHazred in saying Bright is a Shadowrun example. My counter, to @Abstruse s good point about the main characters being cops, is that the other cops were dirty, and everyone else had ulterior motives. What I used to say to people is that Bright was prototype Shadowrun, before...

Thanks for the history! I don't mind some complexity in game systems but long found out my players are casual. They like some complexity as well, such as number of successes, but not to Exalted's ten step process for one character's round! I used 5E when I last ran, mainly because that was...

Thanks for the feedback! I think I had most of it right back then, both the pools, and the staging but not the explanation or why behind it, so thanks for that. I guess I prefer the d6 with 5+ is a success and then add or subtract from that pool based on circumstances. I don't know if that...

I'm really torn on the Shadowrun Bundle. I bought 1E when it came out and I LOVED the setting. I didn't like the game mechanics. The weapon codes were confusing, the extra die pools were confusing and complex, and the TN going above six made things seem impossible. Maybe it's just not having...

Wow, some great discussion here! Good ideas to think about. To add to what I said, I gave up trying to make leveling and training in a fantasy world make sense in terms of time spent from level one to level twenty. It is something I think about and if I can, I have breaks at points to allow...

Those are good points with regards to not spelling out their design. I do like to be surprised by new twists and interpretations of spells. I do think that a combat spell like this one, should have a few more details. Or at least guidance. Obviously, just my opinion. I do understand this...

Having played since 1E with training rules, I have since rejected them. For DND or other level based games, I describe most characters as having had training or practice with whatever it is they do. When the character gets enough xp to advance, I only require a long rest or good night's sleep...

This came up in the game last night. I don't use 5E much but my group has compromised on LU and enjoys it. I did go looking for an answer and found the "Command and Spike Growth" thread but this is more specific to Spike Growth. Spike Growth seems to be straight from the 5E PH and I find it...

In the fwiw category, I do like this. The only change from the base is that, after saying the necromancer uses their ability for good, the process of creating a minion is an unholy ritual? To expand it, I agree that two paths are needed for this class. One that works with undead, and one...

Again, this is all for me. Let's take this in a different way. Let's say typical races are scooped up and put on a new world to populate. That race that doesn't mature for three hundred years would have to live in fear and hide from all of the short lived races. Three hundred years could...

My first thoughts on this were that I don't like long lived races. I'm currently using (modified) Forgotten Realms as my world and the fall of the great human kingdom of Netheril was "only" ~1700 years ago, depending on which version of FR you use, 1E, 2E, 3E, 5E starting dates. Even if the...

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Thanks for the ideas! I'm going to start a LU campaign soon and am glad I can read up on threads like this beforehand. I'm torn on using components. Back in the day, I did use the rules of 3E gaining and having spells and that was enough to limit the spells the casters had access to. The...

I think I'm glad that I don't live in the required remote states or the Test Engineer would be more tempting to work for Paizo. That is currently what I'm doing, testing web pages using Selenium (although in Visual Studio but I have used their IDE), Jira, and more. It would also mean a 50%...