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I'm glad I was right that the Knight update involved removing the Suicide Geas

Oh nice I hadn't seen the FAQ. This is super helpful

You won't regret it, this stuff is fantastic.

It's important with Shadowdark (and any OSR system) that your adventure design includes encounters which are not always-hostile and/or offer non-combat based solutions to bypass them. I worry with Ptolus originating in the 3e era it will have lots of rooms that are open door -> immediate combat.

I've been running vol 1 for about 8 months or so using OSE. Its been fantastic - easy to riff adventures off the random tables and the included dungeons/locations are very good.

This is why I see them more akin to Random Encounters. They can be inserted into an adventure with a wider overall play pattern as a diversion, sidequest, etc

Honestly at this point if you played 5e at launch, you're also an oldtimer. There has been "save or die" disable spells at level 1 since oD&D. If anything, it was worse in the TSR era with Sleep than anything anyone can do in 5e.

Same. When I buy a Setting book I want setting info, NPCs, hooks, things like that. Maybe an intro adventure, at most. I don't want the bulk of the book taken up by an adventure I'll never run (Strixhaven was the worst offender for this in 5e IMO). The new FR book is much better in that...

Re: Questing Beast's review When you think of the mini-adventures less as an "adventure" and more "fleshed out random encounter", they're a lot more likable. They seem designed for 1-2 hours of play, not 3-6 like a 1 page dungeon will often be.

Was curious how prior editions handled circle magic in FR. 3rd limited it to a couple of very specific prestige classes to be the primary caster, and you needed a specific feat to be a secondary caster. Huge change to just make it available to literally any spellcaster lol.

Agree. If you take Player Options = Worldbuilding into account, most published and homebrew settings assumptions would fall apart.

The Incapacitation tag is working as intended then. You simply aren't meant to be able to use control effects against higher level foes.

In their announcement NG stated they will no longer be printing any of the versions of the corebooks besides the two new tomes. Once vendors are out of stock of what is currently printed, they'll be gone for good.

I hope the changes to the Knight removes the "Suicide Geas" the class comes with. The knight must always fight the strongest foe in an encounter in single combat - if any of their allies help them they will lose their class abilities and become a fighter. That, combined with "Preference for...

Relevant XKCD That said, I am looking forward to the starter set, I think that will be very helpful since right now the GM guide for OSE is like, 2 manifestos, 6 blog posts, and a long youtube video.

Penalties are only meaningful if they cannot be mitigated.

The biggest problem with ranged attacks being too good came from Feats - sharpshooter removed all penalties to ranged attacks (cover/disadv), and crossbow expert allowed ranged to outpace melee in damage. This problem persists in with the 2024 versions of the feats. Generally i think its...

This is a classic case of where the group should be using their judgement in how they interpret the rules. PF2 has some great advice on the subject: "Sometimes a rule could be interpreted multiple ways. If one version is too good to be true, it probably is. If a rule seems to have wording with...

I feel like the only reason Two Little Mice haven't been sued yet is that they're not big enough for the corporations they're copying to bother going after.

The issue is that RPGs are such an inherently diverse medium that there cannot be a one-size-fits all answer of X number of books. The point at which, say, Draw Steel, Cypher System, Runequest, Ironsworn, and Honey Heist are going to feel complete are entirely different, due to the completely...