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I backed it and didn't regret it, even though I have no idea when I'll end up running SWADE.

There are a few things that can do it in PF2e, but the special attacks in the game tend to be more focused on imposing conditions or action denial than repositioning. Its one of the areas where it distinctly doesn't resemble D&D 4e.

There's a reason there's a term called "monster closets" in an (uncomplimentary) reference to certain common computer game design features.

I think I'm going to be no help and say the new version has some virtues over the old, but the old one will still work (you might occasionally run into problems involving Powers).

I think picking an AP that was specifically trying to capture an old-school megadungeon at least is probably a bad example. Age of Ashes, for all its issues, did not have tiny maps for the most part, and it was the first one out of the gate. AV suffered from a problem that, frankly, a lot of...

Well, obvious I can't make claims with certainty about every one of them; I can only go by the couple I saw in play and the ones I read in any detail, and even the latter has to be taken with a grain of salt by its nature. Actually, sometimes I think you very much shouldn't. If you're trying...

Yeah, there's a considerable difference between "Must have X items with X spacing" and "To get value out of the system you have to have something beyond a featureless plane." (Not that the latter is nonexistant as a thing, but honestly, it not what you usually expect; even most deserts and...

Honestly, my suspicion is that the equivelent of that is the origin for most stews if you go back far enough (just instead of frozen its the leftover cuttings from some other dish).

Are there versions of gumbo that use sweet components as a matter of course? (I'm just curious since most gumbo is off the table for me since I dislike seafood, so I've only really had various that were just chicken and sausage based).

Doubly odd, then. I was seeing it every day, sometimes multiple times back at the beginning of the month. Makes me wonder if there was an OS security update for Windows that staked it.

And over the last few days, it seems to have stopped. Curious.

Though that's always one of those things that turns, in part, on group size and decisiveness.

Its an interesting tact for them to take. Last time I saw a game lean into that was Earthdawn.

I consider that a good approach, though I've got to say that as someone who's attention tends to drift as a player (ADHD combined with too many years of GMing I suspect) even with the best of intentions I'd probably miss a fair bit of those. That's not the design's fault, though.

I'd argue that's more a problem with overspecialized tactical options, whether open to everyone or requiring specific access (the latter is usually worse, however, because it means some degree of overhead for something you won't, and maybe can't, use). In other words, if you're going to have...

Yeah, but the honest truth is that what being a bit disengaged means can vary considerably. In simpler game systems without a lot of design twiddles or combat manuevers, combat can very much add up to "Pick your target, engage with them, roll your to hit and damage (and maybe a defense in some...

I'd buy that more if I thought the late-period simplified classes were actually as functional as the earlier engaged classes; often they weren't, sometimes in attempts to do so they were too much so. And, to be blunt, not all games are for all people. D&D 4e suffered from the fact is was kind...

Ah, is that what that's about. We've got a couple local places that sell those, and they're visually different, but I was curious about what the batter was (I haven't had one because most of them involve sauces and things I'm not a fan of).

It depends on how broadly you define it. I'd describe it as serving the same purpose as it does for players in a system that otherwise assumes both the players and GM will, you know actually stick to the rules, but wants occasional intercessions on that for dramatic purposes.

Its not impossible to build a game that to some degree supports both, but the devil is when a player playing the simple character realizes the one playing the one who makes more use of the mechanics is either more effective or at least gets to do more cool things. As an example people don't...