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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...

I only found Bob's channel about a month or two ago while looking for some Daggerheart content. I like his channel a lot more than many others as he's positive about his subjects and doesn't try to do the over the top excitement approach that irritates me with so many other channels.

I have been role-playing, both player and GM, since the late 80s, and that is with dozens of game systems. Back in the day it was largely AD&D 2nd edition, Call of Cthulhu, Vampire and Deadlands. Recent years it was 3rd edition and we've been die hard Pathfinder 1st edition players since it...

I certainly think that could be the issue. We have only had one game so far so it's still a learning curve. Our next game is in two weeks and I'll see what happens if I do go all out on them.

I think it comes down to a shift in the hobby. Over the last... let's say 20 years... there has been a shift from the traditional role-playing structure to newcomers into the hobby pushing what is referred to as Player Agency. The days of a groups sitting down and playing the game has been...

Back under the days of 2nd edition there were several one off comics written for D&D to showcase the settings. The Forgotten Realms issue had the kids all grown up but I think it was just a loose tie-in and not meant to say the cartoon was set there.

Have you looked at the Daggerheart play test? The PDF is fairly big but the rules are actually really simple and plays into exactly what you are looking at here. You can download for free, from Daggerheart.com

I get what you are saying but I would disagree. If you have a simple system like D&D5 it's fine to explain the mechanics of the game. If you have something like Pathfinder 1, then there is too much. A player can ask what is needed to do a certain action and they can learn during character...

I never tell them. It's information that they don't need to know. Keeps monsters scary and the characters on their toes.

We tend to say Physical at 50% HP and Critical at 10%. It was used that way by the Pathfinder Society group that we used to play with and it stuck with us.

I started in the 80s with red box basic D&D, 1st edition, Call of Cthulhu and moved on into 2nd edition. All of these are what I consider rules light. Character creation is simple. There is no complexity to the game realistically. 2nd sort of went towards crunch with the Complete guides added...

Unless you have experienced players I prefer that players only know the basics. Learn the specific details as and when such situations come up in game. My reasoning for this is that I have had players, often new to the hobby, who read the rules and then try to game the system rather than use it...

Nope. I don't think so. I tried to keep things lite on that front. We were doing actions with one roll and only when necessary. It was combat that generated the most which was why I was a little concerned that the second fight took too long.

Yep but over the course of 3 hours actual gaming, rolls with fear were filling my pool up. The way I tried to look at it was that if I need the Fear tokens then I have them and that maybe I shouldn't be hung up on how many I have acumulated.

We did our first playtest last night and here are my thoughts... The free flow role-play was great. Everyone got into it and it was nice to have dice dictate everything. Want to find those tracks and there's no danger, don't roll, just go with the narrative. That was an odd breath of fresh air...

My group and I swapped over to Pathfinder pretty much as soon as it dropped. It fixes so many issues that 3.X had and gives a much more enjoyable game IMO. The power level does jump up from 3.x but it works. Paizo never managed to balance out grappling though. Even with Pathfinder, you need a...