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I'm with you @overgeeked . As a player, I'd rather not waste precious gaming time going over every bit of minutia when we could just cast some divinations, do some investigation and then treat it like any other dungeon we're likely to go through. Likewise, as a DM, I don't want to waste an hour...

Back in the days of basic, 1st and 2nd editions D&D, I was not a fan of the ye old magic item shoppe. There were two reasons. Firstly, I tended to think of my game worlds as faux medieval and less fantastical (and I still do to an extent), and secondly, if the characters can just buy whatever...

I could do but I'd just rather they took and held my money at the time I support it. Can't be that hard to do.

I know Ravensburger do board games but do they also do RPGs, CCGs...etc?

There were a few I ticked but I also ticked Other. That Other, is that they don't take the money there and then. They wait until the goal is reached and then do it. However, I have that money now (I'm minimum wage for reference) and might not in three or four weeks for whatever reason. If...

I'm in the minority I'm sure, but as a very long term RPer, to me role-playing just means playing a role. It doesn't mean being an amateur actor or deep immersion. It can be just as simple as playing Grimgor the Barbarian kicking in doors, killing monsters, taking their stuff and spending that...

If this has a knock on effect to the European branch we over the pond are going to get stuffed. I think Asmodee are the only big name in hobby gaming distribution over here.

Pathfinder 1st edition. Call of Cthulhu. Daggerheart. Primeval (based on the UK TV series). And despite not being all that fond of it during our online Covid games, I'm getting drawn to D&D5.

This is why I am turning off of Pathfinder 1st edition. After 15 years of playing and the addition of so many official books with more and more options, I've found high level play almost impossible without Herolab to do the math. Especially if you are playing a combat character.

We primarily play Pathfinder 1st edition and most of us use Herolab, and that works fine. I find phone apps like Pathbuilder are not that helpful as they generally aren't intuitive. Although, reading through your post again, are the players not keeping track of their characters themselves?

To me, they are effectively mercenaries, sell-swords, warrior or wizard for hire. Adventurers are those who live on the fringes of society because of what they do - they aren't farmers, shopkeepers... etc, like everyone else. They are perhaps a necessary nuisance to communities or lords because...

I was triggering my adversaries to go as well. I'll keep an eye on the encounters at the next session and see if I notice I'm not doing enough.

In the other discussion, I was asked the same thing. We kept out of combat rolls to a minimum and unless there was a need to roll we didn't bother. If the character could do something then they did it. As for everything else, yep, I was doing that. The only thing that I thought might have made...

Only one playtest session so far (second one will be this weekend) and I certainly think the GM ends up with too many. It doesn't take long to max out and then despite spending, you easily max out again. Sometimes it felt like the only way I was going to burn through these was to be a complete...

Breaking the game is part of what they want from the playtest. So this is something to report to them.

I was discussing this with one of my players yesterday because of that video. We both felt that it depended on the encounter. In the two fights I put them through in our first playtest, the Wizard, for example, cast one spell and then stayed out of the fight. In the second fight, against 6...

Under 2nd edition AD&D, the Aurora's Whole Realms Catalog. A well stocked equipment guide disguised as a in-game mail order catalog. Where as players rarely added to their mundane gear, everyone bought stuff from this.

I'd be more inclined to say that science fiction would have been the RPG market leader if fantasy had not been so dominate. Something like classic Buck Rogers or even Star Trek (only a decade or so before D&D) could have been what launched role-playing games.

As I mentioned, after just one session, the whole group was like "we want to do this". Definitely a winner for us.

We've been playing Pathfinder 1st since it launched and for me, it's arguably my favourite fantasy RPG. However, I really dislike the 2nd edition of the game even though we had a good couple practice sessions with it a month or so ago. Pathfinder took what worked so well with 3rd edition D&D and...