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I backed it when they crowdfunded it on Indiegogo Game On which was so long ago I can't remember how much I paid. Looking at the pre-order prices, I suspect it was a lot! I'm a sucker for hard-back compilations of adventure paths I already own. EDIT - got the platform wrong

As a player, or as the DM? If the latter, that severely restricts your monster choices.

I once played in an adventure where the villain was wielding twin magical rods that made him much more powerful than he otherwise would be. I decided the logical thing to do would be to attempt to disarm him, despite not having Improved Disarm. The first 3 times he hit me with the attack of...

Whirlwind attack? They weren't even trying! How do you like this feat from Pathfinder 1st edition, which basically allows you to ignore the penalties from Combat Expertise once per round when you parry? (Note that to use this feat to its full potential, you also need Combat Expertise, which is...

From what I remember, the 3.5 rewrite suffered from a lot of "mission creep" and was initially intended just to clear up a few rules, make a couple of classes a bit more interesting and maybe nerf the Haste spell. Then the Pathfinder "re-write" changed lots of things (we were still finding...

As I understand it, it means looking through your collection for things you accidentally bought twice, plus any printed-out PDFs that you no longer need to keep (either because you've now acquired the printed version, or the reason you needed a hard copy has passed), whilst making notes of any...

You could run the "Before the Dawn" duo of adventures from (1st edition) Pathfinder Society season 2 - #02-01 Bloodcove Disguise and #02-02 Rescue at Azlant Ridge. They can be run at any level from 1 to 7. Basically the PCs are in Bloodcove and are asked to head out into the jungle to rescue an...

Is it the player characters who have to tone it down, or the players? Metagaming can be hard to define, but an out-of-character comment such as "Ranulf the mayor of Triboar is actually a dwarf, not a human. I bet this (human) guy turns out to be an imposter!" isn't metagaming in my book (but...

So how did you vote? I voted "False" since I encourage the "good" metagaming and discourage the "bad" metagaming. I assume everyone else does the same, in practice, except we all disagree on what constitutes metagaming in the first place. I mean, if a player character has died, and the player...

I mostly play Pathfinder (1st edition) and have a long list of other games I'd like to play one day. What 5th edition has done for me is actually make me want to play or run D&D - looking through the books has made me nostalgic for mind flayers, yuan-ti, the rod of seven parts, demogorgon...

It's a shame that "Back in my day, a carrion crawler was perfectly acceptable as the first encounter for novice players, and we liked it that way!" is a bit long to put on a T-shirt.

My first game was running the example adventure in the Mentzer Basic Set for my brother and my grandfather (in the latter case, his first game was also his last). It was probably around 1983 or 1984, so not long after the Mentzer revision had come out, not that we knew that at the time - we...

Thanks, I finally understand your point - sorry it has taken me so long! However, given that Perception is a skill in the game, it's understandable that people are going to want to roll for it. Having purely passive perception could be seen as less fun - either you automatically find it, or...

I appreciate it's just an example, but in my case I'd say they automatically hear humanoids talking in rough voices from the other side of the door, but a decent Perception check would enable them to identify the language as Orcish, allow them to understand what was being said (if they speak...

I'll try anything, so I'd give it a try. We can always do something else if we don't like it. Is there a reason for using pre-generated characters?

I've not had a chance to try it out, but if I ran a 5th edition game I'd just ask for ability checks. It would then be up to the player to suggest proficiencies that might be relevant. DM "The path ahead has collapsed into a chasm. It requires a Strength check if you want to jump across it."...

I'm not very familiar with the D&D 5th edition skill system (and my familiarity with the Pathfinder one is probably a drawback here), but what do you do if the monsters are trying to ambush the party, or somebody is using sleight of hand (either directly against them, or to quietly draw a weapon...

That's a very impressive collection of clipboards.

That link doesn't explain why the cost of making the movie isn't deductible anyway, even if they release it. If you are in the business of selling movies then the cost of making them is clearly an allowable business expense. I can speculate that not releasing the movie allows them to claim...

That reminds me of something posted a long time ago, about a 3rd edition game. A new player joined the group and wanted to play a Wizard. The DM spent a long time explaining how he was very harsh on wizards - in particular there was no such thing as a generic "spell component pouch"; the...