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Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 5e. It looks like we could be getting a more streamlined version of 4e. Easier to track advantage, talents less complex, pared down meta currency. All good things.

Very good. I watched the first Drakkenheim and enjoyed it. Which campaigns did you play in?

How are the complaints out of proportion? Pretty much everyone here that has ‘complained’ said it’s not a huge deal, they liked the game, they they’d just prefer it wasn’t there to the extent it was. No protests, no calls for boycott or cancellation. Just a polite ‘could you tone down the...

Just interrupting other players turns and generally slowing down the game in multiple ways. Really dislike an hour long Rage giving temp hp every round.

Yes. It would for me. Many games have a gore meter for the same reason. Though not sure how you can equate a video cut scene involving the lead character feeling obliged to have pretty explicit sex with an incubus in order to solve a main quest to a tiny avatar making stylized cutting motions...

Yeah. Later on you said ‘made’ a billion though. Which usually means profit.

You can have relationships without sex scenes. Every BG had romances. You can have adult themes without sex scenes. Maybe it is moralizing. There are some folks that like this stuff and really want to see it in their D&D, for me I just find it exclusionary. Pretty sure I’m not alone. I’d like...

Maybe. We will never know if that was because of all the other stuff that was good about it. it’s possible to deal with adult themes without scraping the gutter. But it’s a design choice. Good on them for making a decision and sticking to it. My opinion is one of twenty million and I bought the...

I’m with you. The softcore porn added absolutely nothing to the story or gameplay. Particularly the puerile stuff. If it had been taken out nobody would have said. “Yeah, it’s was ok, but what it really needed to be A++ was a bugbear doing an ogre doggy style in a barn.” Worth also saying...

Taking a billion in revenue is absolutely not the same making a billion. The retailers take their slice, then there are the marketing and distribution costs, then there is the cost to actually make things and support all the employees who are making the thing. They will make enough to keep them...

In games I’ve ran I’ve seen a Barbarian - World Tree - which I am fast coming to actively dislike. A dwarf Fighter, a Rogue and an Evoker. Other than the barbo it feels pretty smooth.

Good Question 2025 was a good year I would say. I’ve phrased it as the Stop, Start, Continue approach we do at work. Stopped (or should have stopped) I backed the 2nd edition Alien RPG kickstarter. With a wash of enthusiasm. Then when I started reading around some of the previous 1e modules...

Interesting. How did that come about? Were they pick up games in a store/online or was there just a lot of changes in your group?

How on earth have you managed to play 26 characters in only 14 months. That’s like two characters a month! To answer your question. Wizard. 100% of my 2024 time has been spent on Wizards. Well one wizard to be precise. An illusionist. Has been a lot of fun. He’s made it to level 13 and still...

Because it was Hrothgars singing that proved Grendel, or because they slew her son?

Yes, I’m all for letting monsters be monsters but exceptions are always interesting à la Eberron. I’m interested in how a monster or interaction with a monster can tell a tale about people rather than just be something to slay in a dungeon. I think my follow up to your example is why is the...

As part of my ongoing re-read of the Witcher series (finished the first book and onto the number two) I was struck by how much I liked the weaving of monstrous creatures with ordinary people. Very few monster stories stood on their own… there was always a curse, human failing or attempt to use...

Keep em coming. Very interesting stuff. It’s a great team of writers.

Feels like Mechanus. Not sure if that was the intention. The nice thing about maths is that it happens without needing to be thought about. The underlying maths exists whether we concentrate on it or not. I play a bit of poker and one absolutely viable way to play is to know the various odds...

I always thought Pathfinder did some good opening scenes. Rise of the Runelords starts at a market featival Curse of the Crimson Throne starts with a tarot reading Kingmaker revised starts with a ceremony Serpents Skull starts with a shipwreck Skull and shackles starts with a press ganging...