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Also those tend to be the opposite of this approach - a fixed number of points to begin with (because your characters are heroes) and new ones are generated when the GM does something nasty, giving you an extra chance to do something out of the ordinary then or later. That's much different than...

Speaking as a friend of gaming Kickstarters - Areas of concern: 1) Pages and pages of monster lists. Not new monsters - encounter tables, presumably. Every tavern and inn listed in pages and pages of tables. A random generator can spit out tables like the ones in the sample booklet. Is this...

Regardless of difficulty D&D was being translated at least as far back as the 80's because TSR used to brag about it. It's easier now than it was then. I seriously doubt that the actual work of doing a translation is what's holding them up. This sounds more like a Hasbro-level decision. As...

This is where the questions should go next - An MLP game would probably be aimed mainly at girls when it came to marketing and as such would be a very different beast for Hasbro/WOTC to tackle. Transformers though ... that's right in the middle of a market they know well, has had the big budget...

I'll echo what some other posters have mentioned: FFG makes a whole other line of RPG's that do not use the Star Wars/Warhammer dice system. I never played much L5R or 7th Sea but I did like the roll & keep system. I don't know that they keep it as-is, but it seems like it might be an option...

I'm a big fan of Paizo but this: Some delays in getting the game to market coupled with some anticipated funding falling through have left us about 75% short of the money we need to finish the game and bring it to Open Enrollment. and this: The team has brought the ball down the field to the...

So this is considered "officially released" now? The comments above make it look more like the ever-popular "paid-beta". It's going to be hard to come in new to the universe of Pathfinder support products charging for something in this state. It will be interesting to see if they can make a...

You might remember that whole "Neverwinter" thing with 4E where the region book and the new game were tied together, and going back farther the whole Diablo II thing with 3E. The only 5E videogame event so far was pretty similar. I'm still a little skeptical as to how much crossover there is...

Vehicle Tip: Car and Driver has a lot of Archive type articles that can give you stats, specs, and prices on vehicles from "back in the day"

One more consideration: Did those rating a particular AP just read it? Did they run it? Did they play through it? if they played or ran how far did they get? Quite a few reviews of long adventures like these are from an "I read it" perspective and while there's some value in that, I would be a...

Beyond the 5E spike I think it's interesting that 4E and 3.5 spike at the same time. Maybe it's the Steam marketing, as becoming the official 5E platform doesn't seem like it would be a big factor there. The 4E games almost double from March to April so there's definitely some kind of impact.

If you're looking to build it into a more traditional RPG campaign then Mechwarrior (any edition) could give you some ideas on how to do that since it handles a similar situation with Battletech. Not mechanics, specifically, but structure and campaign ideas and how to integrate it with a...

As far as the setting for the Elemental Evil run, yes we know we can run them in any setting. The annoyance is in what setting WOTC chooses to support with their published adventures. If they were set in Greyhawk it would show they were committed to supporting other settings and would probably...

3 out of 5 rating for Hoard of the Dragon Queen Full review is in the link but the short version is that there is nothing especially memorable about this adventure. Add in some technical errors and it's not a terribly impressive first big adventure for 5th Edition D&D.

Well, there are - for other games - Herolab, PCGen, HeroDesigner, GURPS Character Builder, the 4E character builder, and probably some others. 5th will get one sooner or later. I'd look at this as a temporary setback, not the end of the road.

Well, that was what it was called for the first 15 years of the game so some of us still have a soft spot for it. Clearly some of us don't. :cool: In this context, I agree. If they wanted to use it was the over-arching description for other arcane casters (like "Mage" in 2E) than I could see...

There are functioning character generators out there for more complex games from 3.0 to 4.0 to Pathfinder to Champions and Mutants and Masterminds. They all pretty much enforce the rules by default, so it is entirely doable. Well, other people have done it. HeroLab does exactly this. I'm a...

If we're comparing to 4E then I don't think this is "PHB 2" - It's "Heroes of the Elemental Chaos", which I thought was pretty cool. Don't forget Red Hand of Doom, the big published adventure for 3.5. You could say it they've done it for two-and-a-half consecutive editions :cool:

They did something similar in 4E with themed releases like Heroes of Shadow, book of vile darkness, and the big boxed set for the shadow fell all releasing around the same time. Paizo of course does this all the time with a setting book and a player-focused book for each AP at least, often there...

You'll find that happens a lot with D&D. RPG's in general, really. Other games too. "We need WOTC/Paizo/Games Workshop/etc. to FAQ situation X" comes up a lot. Even when a rule is perfectly clear to you, someone out there will claim it's unclear, and sometimes they can make enough noise to spur...