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Obligatory Snark Answer: The Larian Studios logo. Barely Better Serious Answer: Same rules, same game engine, different art styles and different campaign settings-- give the full BG3 treatment to all of the D&D games between the Gold Box and BG3 itself. Pirates of Realmspace 2, Shattered Lands...

If we're going to play by the OP's rules and import a single (thematically unified) team with their supporting cast and rogues? The Green Lantern Corps as cosmic rivals to the Nova Corps and the Kree and Shi'ar Empires, and literal canon immigrants trying to rebuild their ancient legacy in a...

I just joined a freeform X-Men game, OCs only-- my first pitch was Lifeline, the son of Kaine and Madelyne Pryor-- younger half-brother to Cable-- but the co-GMs hadn't done anything with Madelyne Pryor or the Inferno storyline, and they didn't want to introduce all of that baggage for a single...

No, nobody joins the MCU. Disney buys DC Comics and forms a new movie studio to make DCEU movies. They quietly rebuild the DCEU and the Justice League franchise, with an eye on multiversal stories and "stunt casting" MCU alums as cameos and even extras in DCEU movies... while the MCU plods along...

I don't know. I cut my teeth on AD&D 1e years after AD&D 2e was published, and was an eager early adopter of 3.0-- and I didn't even actually play BECMI until coming back to D&D after walking away from 3.5-- so my "formative years" with my nostalgic favorites were short and not marked by the...

My current homebrew features genies pretty heavily and I would love to pick your brain on this. May I PM you about it? The longer I play D&D, the less I can stand the way it models polytheistic religions and cosmologies-- the way some people can't stand psionics or firearms-- and neither I...

Well, now that my dreams of Pirates of Realmspace 2 have been thoroughly dashed... I would really like to see them take a stab at space fantasy in the same vein as Phantasy Star or Cosmic Fantasy.

It is, however, owned entirely by Wizards of the Coast who would not need a license from themselves to publish it once the material it was based on enters the public domain.

Or, you know, you could have read the quote in the post you're quoting before rushing to correct it. Of course, Larian wants to work on their own projects based on their own IP, and their temporary association with Wizards of the Coast (and their IP) has made that prospect more lucrative than...

2026 marks the date that all copyrights that were established by Philip Nowlan expire, regardless of their current ownership. Anything that was created by Philip Nowlan for the Buck Rogers franchise becomes fair game. That is certainly the character and name of Buck Rogers himself, and at a...

Or, in other words, the cackhanded submoronic parasites at Hasbro just cost Wizards of the Coast another easy hundred million dollars.

The original Buck Rogers materials are entering the public domain soon, in 2026. Unless the license deal gave the Flint Dille Trust some sort of license to the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century property-- and why would it?-- when the Buck Rogers name and character become public domain, Wizards of...

I am putting together a homebrew game for my friends and family, and maybe for the PBP section on RPG Pub. Rules are a mashup of heavily simplified/streamlined PF1/5e, Rogue Genius' Talented supplements, and Dreamscarred Press' entire catalog. Setting is a mashup of Spelljammer, the...

Human racial traits: featherless biped always count as Good when assensing their own Alignment Dunning-Kruger Effect BEHOLD A MAN In the Shroompunk game I am developing, humans have mandatory subraces. These aren't ethnic or even strictly biological... the human subraces are aasimar...

In my games, I replace the standard "backstory" with an index card for every PC; the player gets to write down their name, race/gender/(sub)class/background/theme/kit/omgwtfbbq, and then six facts that would have come from their "backstory" that they want me to use. Every player is privy to...

You need the three core rulebooks and I would highly recommend Unearthed Arcana; don't use everything, and I can't even really recommend specifically anything, but you should at least read the book and make a conscious decision about each component part. Likewise, I have always considered...

I just realized, this is why Dwarves weren't allowed to be Paladins in AD&D.

I used the PF term. In D&D terms, I'm talking about "Wizard" versus "Swordmage". It's funny... you know what "katana" means, literally, in Japanese? "long sword" A katana is a longsword. But a templar is a leader class, not a striker, and a soulknife doesn't need a backup weapon to fight...

Basically... all the task resolution is on the same d20. You roll a d20, you add your bonus, you try to meet or exceed the DC. Bounded Accuracy means that the range of possible bonuses is less than 20 (-1 to +17, roughly) and the range of significant DCs is 20 points exactly (10 to 30) so any...

Honestly, I can trace the majority of my complaints about 4e and 5e to "slight reflavoring". If the flavor doesn't match the mechanics, or the mechanics don't match the flavor, that's the literal definition of disassociated. Immersion is ruined and players can only interface with the game world...