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The conversation about stoicism is interesting in and of itself, as a lot of people are sort of relitigating what the writings that define it do and don't say, and to what extent its helpful or not, its a frequent flyer in the conversation. As for the second, its sort of interesting to me...

The conversation does seem to have slipped into the rut of discussing whether its ok to discuss people who don't like games in anything but a live and let live context. I don't think anyone was really interested in discussing the individual social dynamic, rather the blog seems to be pointing...

I don't know, when I think about it from a worldbuilding perspective, there's only so much you can do that they aren't effectively doing anyway to make them different. My own setting doesn't even really feature them-- it features cavern elves which we gave translucent skin, we would have had to...

YEEE very exciting for me, I actually found out from this post, lol

Hit points are invoked by the actions by a given participant that alters them. Casting a fireball invokes your hit point total, which in turn tells us if you're down or not.

Alignment at least is something that has actually changed dramatically since playtest, the 2e base wants nothing to do with it.

Notably, they are reprinting without it, and the game isn't changing much in a fundamental sense-- they seem to be taking the need to reprint the core as an opportunity to respond to some longstanding feedback, and produce a better entry point by reorganizing how the information is presented.

Yeah, I totally get that-- if anything it also seems like a little bit of a possible trap for new players too, because the effect is strong enough to make spending at least a dot each on Resolve and Composure even if they're not your focus to bring your regular total up to 4 or more really smart...

Yeah, that makes complete sense, it's probably something that would be good to remember when we eventually play it to not overdo it with penalties that come from me (as opposed to those the system dictates) It's actually kind of interesting because the game frames 2 dots as professional, but...

Yeah, they're nice because they fit into the balance model of casters without actually creating any weird questions (because at the end of the day, they're a cool flavor and inspiration for the effects of spells) but if there's enough of them, you can build a wizard or something that is...

So I ended up discussing it with my 'neo-trad player' as I sort of think of him, with most of his friction coming from when games don't align with these values, and we actually ended up agreeing that one thing we like conceptually about this system, is that the mechanics that enforce narrative...

Nah I'm not doubting you, but I've been diving the book lately to learn the game and was wondering if it might show me something I missed. I'll come across it eventually most likely, its also possible it was a lot of contested rolls which reduce the size of dice pools.

ah, gotcha, i didn't notice things that weren't damage requiring at least two successes, I was going off the assumption that most things in the usual 'skill check' space required one. Edit: actually, do you have any examples I could go look at? The book mentions this, which was what formed my...

Was it? With every d10 being a 30% chance for a single success, the spawning of another die on a 10, the relative size of dice pools, and willpower adding more I was getting the vibe it would be fairly high.

Update: Let's Talk about Chronicles of Darkness (for this post anyway) and how I think it's a really great Neo-Trad Game. Lately to kill time on the ol'library desk I've been reading my PDFs for the my Chronicles of Darkness gamelines, for the uninitiated, its the second edition of White Wolf's...

We straight up need more spells like Blazing Dive, Draw the Lightning, enough to make a whole playstyle out of, 5e actually came close with it's cantrips but... they're just cantrips and IIRC they were nerfed.

Yup, they announced it publically over on r/Pathfinder2e as well.

Alongside their Fighter, Ranger, and Cleric friends which are more or less untouched, is my perspective-- most of what makes DND, DND, are ironically things that DND doesn't really own as a brand but permeate the actual adventures and fantasy worlds we've all been playing in. So while you might...

The Game Already Has a Primal Volcanic Dragon in the Second Bestiary. Which incidentally is probably part of the reason for the selections here, since they're 'replacing' the basic dragons, but from the perspective of a game that already has a slew of dragons in it regardless of the OGL.

The plan right now is for those to stay in print as-is, it seems like. Legally, I don't know what their lawyers have determined about making those slight revisions he's talking about and then dropping the OGL mention in exchange for an ORC one in the next errata for each book. Technically, I...