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I bought Reign of Discordia a decade ago for True20, and picked up the Traveller version on eBay a few years later. Hopefully the 5th edition version will do well, but I'm not likely to buy it.

I get a "best of both worlds" feel about Castles & Crusades, as an OSR game with a unified mechanic (although a +6 proficiency bonus seems more elegant to me than having DC 12 vs DC 18, even though the effect is exactly the same). What I don't like about it is the "traditional" fantasy racial...

No idea. Thousands, probably - not going to count them. Mostly D&D pre-painted minis but also some star wars spaceships and a few unpainted ones.

Some of these have already been mentioned. Marvin Gaye "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" is technically a cover; I also really like the Credence Clearwater Revival version. Tina Turner "Proud Mary" Aerosmith "Come Together" Guns N Roses "Live and Let Die" Elton John "Pinball Wizard" Carpenters...

I've backed 120 kickstarters, of which 8 have failed to deliver (although in only one case did I end up with nothing at all). I'm still hopeful some of the 8 might come through, although most of them are clearly not going to. What has been more alarming is the number of kickstarter creators...

I did have a pathfinder (first edition) character that was a Paladin/Monk/Oracle/Ninja/Champion of Irori. As far as NPCs were concerned, he was a paladin. Nowadays I might try to add some Warrior Poet levels as well, to add Charisma to AC twice

Presumably the character will need that power up, since the rest of the party will abandon it (either from moral objections, or the impracticality of adventuring only at night, remaining within range of a coffin, only being able to pillage monster lairs if expressly invited in, can't cross...

Sacrifices to Asmodeus should definitely work, after a fashion. I don't own the adventure (somewhat counter-intuitively, this threads has made me more likely to get it - it is an excellent sandbox, it has a submarine whale!) but could you make it fit that the towns with the human sacrifices are...

I don't actually own that many albums - I'm more of a "greatest hits" sort of person (cue Alan Partridge comparisons). I put it down to not listening to much music growing up, so everything was new to me and it was difficult to know where to start. Anyway, in alphabetical order: Adele 21 Bruce...

I'm still playing in one weekly Pathfinder 1st edition campaign and GMing another. We even manage the dreaded high level games, admittedly by patching the system on the fly and refraining from using anything too broken.

I'm not sure that's really the crux of the matter, but it is a social encounter until the combat starts. You might have ruled differently. The DM in this case ruled that since the dagger couldn't be concealed in Player 1's hand (the dagger is too big / hand too small) he wasn't concealing it on...

I use the "roll for initiative" method unless I have a good reason not to. I think almost everybody here does the same, but we disagree on what is a good enough reason. Situation: There is a tense stand off. Player 1 is facing down Players 2 and 3. Player 1 has a dagger in his hand, but is...

I get the impression counter claims are very popular in US legal proceedings because, as I understand it, it's very hard to get your Costs back if you win the case. So unless you can include a counter claim in there somewhere all you get for winning is that warm fuzzy feeling of knowing that you...

Thanks for the detailed post on playbooks. I had no doubt the term arose after a lot of careful consideration. (The more I find out about PbtA games, the more I appreciate just how much thought went into them, whereas my idea of game design used to be wondering whether you could combine Climb...

My objection to playbooks was that I didn't understand what they were, the term was being bandied about on the internet as if everyone knew what it meant, and in the end it became a "useful" shorthand that allowed me to reject any game that mentioned having them, sight unseen. (The only other...

If I ever get to play in a PbtA game, it will be as the GM, with no one at the table ever having played before (or even heard of PbtA, in most cases). It's less than ideal, but on the other hand that was the starting situation with pretty much every RPG I've run. We had no idea how to play...

In one campaign our party acquired a Chaos Diamond. We sold it without a second thought. The DM, deciding to teach us a lesson, had the buyer use it as part of an evil scheme. Called in to deal with the fallout, we defeated the buyer (and got a reward) and re-acquired the Diamond. Which we...

In our first ever 3rd edition campaign, my sorcerer did end up having to stand in the front line occasionally. With high Dex, mage armour and shield (3.0 version) he had the highest AC in the party, and with a 5th level wand of burning hands he was one of the best damage dealers as well. I...

I'm fine with all that, so long as the DM is okay with the hostage failing to get saved on occasion. I'm much less keen on "save the world in 24 hours or die trying" sorts of adventure, where the characters have no opportunity to recover from a bit of bad luck early on, potentially leading to...

That's a good point. I get frustrated with "core only, for the sake of balance" DMs in Pathfinder games, since I'm perfectly capable of breaking the game with a core-only Wizard or Druid (I choose not to, obviously) but this means I can't try out something that looks be fun but certainly not...