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Basically I'm not seeing enough major changes that I like to think it's worth the cognitive load of making a complete change or the financial cost of a new set of books. I'll probably end up going through the SRD when it's updated and might mine for some houserules, but overall will probably...

It's locked to backers only, but one of the kickstarter updates stated they believe the contract was violated, but didn't have the financial resources to take legal action without jeopardizing being able to still put out the book. My understanding is it's a bit unusual compared to other...

I think mechanically that's correct, but flavorwise there's a big difference from a character shapeshifting to scout themselves vs sending a familiar to do the scouting for me

I can understand the design goal to simplify things and not require druid players to dig through the monster manual and pick out options for individual animal. But this seems an overcorrection and loses most of the interesting abilities that would be the reason for shapeshifting in the first place.

Dr. Emily Friedman at Auburn University has been doing research on various actual play shows. She just posted a survey for creators and viewers about their motivation and interests, and some questions about why people don't view shows if that applies to you. It's a pretty quick survey to complete.

I feel like it started off as orientalism - treating the monk as the weird foreign class because it was cool, but now is kind associated with D&D-type monks as well. Daniel Kwan in his Candlekeep Mysteries adventure "Book of Inner Alchemy" has a bit that explains ki as something that applies to...

Book came out just in time for my campaign. I had a few threads relating that I was wanting to figure out how to tie together (during world building players came up with an idea of a new deity appearing that is associated with more advanced tech that I've been wanting to do something to make it...

That’s all fine and all, but you’re responding to a statement I didn’t make You said you found the two statements incongruent and the obvious approach is was too comment immediately. My explanation was why I think they are compatible and reasonable that they thought at the time the obvious...

I actually think this is probably one of the comments that is more honest and less in need of spin if true. If they really were already revising things and thinking a new version was almost ready to release I can totally understand thinking it better to wait a bit and release it along with an...

From Nord Games - Spectacular Settlements and Dangerous Destinations have been good sources to randomly generate locations and are basically system neutral. I've used their Revenge of the Horde bestiary book a bit to make some nice variants of the standard enemy creatures. I have their other...

Since the original interview that caused the controversy you're referring to was talking about how it would be a good thing if the management of WOTC wasn't just white men, thinking it had anything to do with "is it ok for white guys to play D&D again" means you were wrong. And yes this second...

this is important context. He was specifically asked if there were non-white Non-males in leadership positions and the answer was that the diversity among the design team had expanded and people were beginning to take on design leadership which he expected to lead to more opportunity higher up too.

Already been mentioned 13th age escalation die and Alien stress The third edition of unknown armies does stats in an interesting way, with each stat part of a balanced scale. So being good at one makes you worse at another. For example the stat used for fighting was balanced by the one for...

The last two lines are missing from my copy too (after "Otherwise") Also the Ballistic Mindstrike reads as if damage is automatic while other types require saving throw. Based on context of Fling Foe referring to an attack, I'm guessing attack for the basic version should be an attack? Really...

Kobold press vault of magic is just magic items not spells. There spells in their heroes handbook. Also some spells in their setting books but nothing too shadow themed i think. Depending on your timeline you might look at the current deep magic 2 kickstarter. The original deep magic is getting...

I really thought Hasbro/WOTC would have a hard line of a new license that they could have more control, so backing down on OGL 1.0a and releasing more under CC was a big surprise. I still think once One D&D comes out we'll see something like the d20 Trademark License, but with the survey being...

Court of the Shadow Fey and wrath of the river king might be good to mine for ideas depending on the flavor you want. https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/courts-of-the-shadow-fey-for-5th-edition-dnd/ https://koboldpress.com/kpstore/product/wrath-of-the-river-king-5th-edition-dnd/ And if...

Not sure if you were referring to the specific news in this post or in general - but for people who aren't aware he did write his own game with it's own system Phoenix Dawn Command Haven't had a chance to play it, but I've been intrigued by the concept - PCs are people that have have died are...

Quick summary, Graeme Barber wrote the initial draft and turned it over to Wizards for playtesting with permission to let them make changes without contacting him. He acknowledges he didn't understand the process and assumed they'd still follow up if there were significant changes, so was...

Just got my kickstarter version - agree with the people commenting on how nice it turned out, especially like the silver edge - I tried to get a pic to show off to others but couldn't really capture the sparkles that really seem to add to the effect of the edging. If anybody is on the fence...