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Positive: Moving away from THAC0 during the transition from 2E to 3E. Moving away from % based class skills to a more mature skill system. And while 3E was more customizable, the current 5e system I find simpler and possibly more elegant. Simplification/streamlining of core systems in 5E...

Years ago someone leaked that internal Games Workshop numbers showed that the average GW games player lasts 3 years. There was a time when GW made a TON of products besides WFB and 40k, then they didn't because they thought they were cannibalizing their own sales (they were to a certain point)...

That's because @payn is a peculiar person, but that has mostly to do with their obsession with House Marik... ;) Different people can have different opinions, the problems start when some people start phrasing their opinions as facts... And opinions can change with age. My views are certainly...

D&D is a system, not a world imho. There are D&D worlds/settings like Forgotten Realms, Mystera, Ravenloft, Dragonlance, etc. There have been many different editions of D&D that play very differently from each other, (just mentioning a few from my own experience) from D&D Basic, AD&D 2nd...

The term 'neutral space' threw me for a loop, I was initially thinking of a room's design being neutral... My mind went, what a strange requirement for a gaming nerd... ;) Then it clicked, a 'neutral space', as in: At no one's home where the homeowner is at the social 'advantage'. I get that.

They are probably complaining about the lack of... Erm... 'Computer' assets... ;)

Kind of depends on how you define 'simple' and for whom... People that have been playing D&D for 30-40 years will find a default Wizard the most simple class to play. I would not count the Sorceror with all the Metamagic stuff and Spellpoints a simple class either in this edition. For a new...

I played a Warlock previously that did very consistent damage Up to 24 with spells, add regular disadvantage to that and things get pretty darned hard to hit... What is even more fun is that certain folks can get into attack range, attack, disengage and move out of the creatures movement+attack...

Imho in D&D5e 2024 it's about DPR vs. the amount of resources (HP, limited use abilities, spells, one use equipment, etc.) used. Last Sunday we played a game with a 8th level Rogue (assassin) and Sorceror (Wildmage). Expending a spell (Fog Cloud) was way more effective then casting a Fireball...

Yes, the shop is a bit annoying (PITA), but if you really want something it's workable! I've only bought a few digital maps, for use in (Foundry) VTT. They tend to be higher resolution then the ones from DNDB, although I might want to take a look at the new FVTT FR modules first before buying...

That's WoD in general, not oWoD or nWoD specifically. As someone else pointed out these ICv2 numbers are VERY unreliable (specifically pathfinder vs D&D4e), these are just generic gut feelings of niche US retailers. No actual numbers, no online sales, nothing outside of the US. New oWoD books...

Just because you don't understand something, doesn't mean that it shouldn't exist. WoD as a game was played by MANY, it was very popular in it's day. While the nWoD, which you do like, was significantly less popular. This isn't a contest, but it indicates that your tastes are FAR from universal...

For me game lore gives context to the world you play in. Making it more then the nicely painted facade of an old Hollywood film set, it looks nice from a distance, until you one a door you weren't meant to. Something like D&D Forgotten Realms has so much lore, making an imho kinda boring world...

My point is that we need to question if what the fans like about Larian is BG3 or DOS1/2, not actually the studio, or the people behind it... I could easily see that when the game is released, and droves of BG3 fans don't actually like it, they'll blame AI or even the lack of AI... People are...

And that's a bad thing? The issue with these kinds of AAA games is that it requires massive amounts of investments, one bad game tends to be the end of a studio and Larian has escaped bankruptcy WAY more then is statistically sane... Less headcount would mean less investment => risk, and if...

Your work must be really suffering due to your activism.... No, not really. The editors made the decission what was published and what was not, and they published only very limited content for a (bi)monthly magazine. DMsguild everyone can publish and everyone does. So having credits there only...

Something like Buffy probably has many, many inspirations, it wanted to flip the Horror genre on it's head. Also keep in mind that 'Blade' first appeared in '73 in Marvel comics, predating the Rice novel by three years (but not the short story '68 vs '76). Something like True Blood seems to...

While I agree that glasses + magnifying glass for a sub 50 year old is a bit of overkill, but are your reading glasses actually recent prescription glasses? I'm 49, have been wearing glasses for most of my live for seeing things correctly at a distance. I actually couldn't read well ever without...

At the time of the fallout Rein-Hagen was in his early 30s, can't call that a kid anymore nor young (it's over when you hit 30! ;) ). Many folks going into business, especially pnp RPG business, have no business being business owners. They can be great people, great creators, but they are most...

And that would be a function I wouldn't trust LLMs with, most things outside of 'creative' writing I wouldn't trust an LLM with. Why? Because I don't know the actual answer, never ask a LLM a question you don't know the answer to, so you can check the actual output. So, if a book actually harms...