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If you go back a bit farther, one of the reasons for the switch from D&D 3.5 to 4 and the cancellation of most of the 3rd party licenses was Hasbro wanted to create something that would generate the cash flow of Blizzard's World of Warcraft. They thought they could do it with a staff of 10~20...

I scored a Dell Ultrasharp P2425 off the Dell Outlet store for $169 last winter. Nice 24" 16:10 monitor. But yes, 16:10s are currently a rare beast. The purchase was a tariff hedge against the possibility of one of my 10+ year old 24" Ultrasharps dying. The old monitor was repurposed as a...

GURPS Lite. Available free: GURPS Lite A free subset of the full rule set. Probably good enough for a short adventure. Followed by an Internet search for gurps adventures.

Invest in stuff to improve gaming ergonomics. If you host, replace those metal folding chairs and hard wood dining room chairs with more comfortable chairs. If gaming causes pain, you will game less. Better lighting - this is very person dependent. Ask your group before making expensive...

My ruling would be there is a good chance of spillage. Its a flexible bag, not a fixed shelving unit. Even if you assume a fixed directional gravity, the pot could wind up on top of the beholder body being taken back to the wizard for parts. Something could be added later that tips the pot...

"Not my drink". I don't use straws. :) As a resident of Tornado Alley, I have heard the terms soda, coke, and pop used pretty much interchangeably.

Most game systems assume the PCs are above average at the start. I am good with PCs starting there. No need for the "Chosen by god/fate/etc." stuff. Let the rest come thru play.

I think being an effective benevolent GM requires a good ability to compartmentalize what the Benevolent NPC knows from what the GM knows. This allows the BNPC to give advice to the party without spilling the whole plot secret. Even possible that advice is a well meaning but wrong bit of...

Also the effect on the local demand economy when those same adventurers return from their quest with the gorgon heads and a wagon full of weapons and armor looted from things they killed while hunting gorgons. Hard to sell the farmer's offspring a new freshly crafted long sword when there is a...

Since it seems everyone had fun, might be prudent to prepare a couple more short one shots. Having something ready means that if 'Grandma wants the kids' happens on short notice, you have something ready to run.

Congrats on making the session happen. One advantage of campaigns is you can reuse a lot of stuff. Both Bastion and the Necro-oozes could be reused in a future session. The dungeon gets occupied by something new a few months later and needs revisiting. The town becomes a base of operations...

Sounds like you need to sit down with your group and pick something. Then be prepared to do a lot of house ruling until the group thinks they can live with the result. Document it all and start play with the understanding that edge cases will be solved with on the spot house rulings, perhaps...

Mentioned in the last sentence of paragraph 1, which you quoted.

A fair number of Adventuring Parties are de facto mercenary groups. "Rescue the princess and I will reward you." "The town has a goblin problem. If you fix it, we will pay you." "Will you escort the caravan to Big Town for 300GP?"

This is a problem with a lot of 1 vs Many encounters, regardless of the game system. If the 1 fails a save, it is often boned, while if one of the Many fails, the Many has a minor power drop. Plus, one of the Many can help the one who failed while the 1 has no such safety net. While the OPs...

Agreed, but in this case as I mentioned, GG producing the new CS has enough separation from the original bad acts that I am OK with it. If you are not, that is your choice.

In a PF1 game, for many non combat situations, we don't use initiative. If someone is doing something, often the rest of us just observe and see how it plays out. If we see an opportunity to do something, we jump in, even if that interrupts the current focus action. That's kinda how it works...

One thing I find odd about this project is that GG plans on making good as much as possible, folks that backed a previous KS for a Pathfinder version of City State but isn't producing a Pathfinder version themselves. Is PF that far below 5E and DCC in popularity? Or is there some other reason...

Depending on zoning requirements and such, they may have to allot for X number of parking spaces. Plus setbacks from the property edges. Also a possible green space. 5 acres can quickly become 2~3 usable once legal requirements are satisfied. On the plus side, if it is land previously used...

To answer the original question, not normally. I normally won't buy a new version until a group I play with starts using the new version.