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I thought Strength of Thousands seemed really interesting, but I kind of lost my taste for PF2 in general before getting around to running it. I did think Fists of the Ruby Phoenix was a really cool idea, until I realized the whole first third is supposed to take place over three days with the...

Game of Thrones spoilers:

This can be a bit setting-dependent. I'm going to get into some spoilers for the Dresden Files series, specifically Proven Guilty. Now, this is specific to how magic works in the Dresdenverse – breaking the laws of magic corrupts you and makes you more likely to break them again in the future...

One side effect of increasing both XP rewards and XP requirements at higher levels is that it effectively reduces the XP cost of things that use XP as a, well, cost. At 13th level, when you potentially get limited wish, the 300 XP cost is 1/43 of a level. At 19th level, the cost is 1/63. Of...

Mind control is a tool, and the degree of evil it is depends on what you use it for. But that doesn't mean it's entirely neutral. A suggestion-type effect that lets you bypass a larger problem (e.g. the Jedi Mind Trick as used by Obi-Wan Kenobi) is fair. The same magic used to make someone tell...

I've had some great use of wall of stone – the best was probably when some villain tried to put a timer on us by opening a water flow that would have drowned some prisoners and I told them Nope. The damage spells, on the other hand, tend to be so-so damage but with fairly big areas, so they're...

Right, I've been getting a lot of mileage out of slow and to a lesser degree fear on my primal sorcerer. But it feels wrong that when you face the Big Boss, you turn to your 1st and 3rd level spells instead of your 5th and 6th level. I like the 13th age solution where incapacitation-type spells...

Note that if you try using an Incapacitation effect on a strong creature, those odds become much, MUCH worse. For the moderate save, you get: 5% chance of having the "normal" effect (which is usually nasty but not overwhelming – for example, paralyze paralyzes you for 1 round). 20% to take a...

The thing I mostly remember from Darwin in the comics was that they tried to put him up against Worldbreaker Hulk, and his power's survival response was to nope out and teleport away. But yeah, Darwin's fate was probably the thing I liked least about the otherwise pretty good X-Men: First Class.

I had a vague idea for a setting back in early 3e (when Sorcerers were New and Shiny and had Belts), where Wizardry was the main advantage the "civilized" people had over other humanoids. Kobolds, goblins, orcs, and the like could occasionally be born with sorcerous power, and that magic could...

I think the 3-action economy is basically a good idea, for things like "Raise shield, Stride, Strike" or "Recall Knowledge, Cast spell." However, it can occasionally be overly restrictive. For example, if your hands are occupied, walking through a closed door is a 4-action process: Stride up to...

On Dark Mode at least, the link to the rules is in the bottom right corner of each page:

I think the intent is that the wizard uses pre-made formulae for their spells. Some have a bit of wiggle room (e.g. Chromatic Orb can deal damage of different energy types), but basically it's a matter of doing things in a predictable way and getting a predictable result. The sorcerer, on the...

I'll agree on Fate, Fudge, and Cortex – they're really more "game engines" or "game design kits" than actual games. But something like Savage Worlds is at least as playable out of the box as GURPS is.

Noted occult expert Sam Wilson breaks it down:

And that's perfectly fair. I was just pointing out that the prices have been going up gradually for quite a while now, and that it's unfair to compare the cost to what it was over a decade ago.

They haven't been $20 for a very long time. I'm not sure when they changed it, but I did find a thread from 2015 where someone was complaining about a price increase to $30, and they were told it was a special price increase just for #100 (which was also bigger) and after that it would go back...

Pet peeve: Athasian halflings aren't cannibals. They don't eat other halflings.