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You can also make an Acrobatics check in Pathfinder to reduce falling damage, although it only allows you to treat the fall as 10 feet shorter; presumably Tumble did the same in 3rd edition D&D. As I understand it, there's nothing to stop a 5th edition DM allowing something similar, since the...

I would never kill your character. All the fun comes from getting you to do it to yourself ...

No Prisoner Cell Block H? (Apparently just called Prisoner in Australia.)

I think BECMI might have been STR, CON, DEX - I seem to remember having to learn to switch CON and DEX around when I switched to playing AD&D.

I think it probably resonates more with Americans, for obvious reasons. European history (for example) is knee-deep in lost causes, and apart from a few obvious exceptions (at the risk of Godwin-ing the thread) they often aren't any more objectionable than the forces they were fighting against...

These previously free products have been unavailable for a long time - I think since their website switched to 4th edition? The cost of making them available on Drivethru isn't zero, so it's reasonable to charge for them. I don't remember WotC making any kind of "free forever" pledge.

That's something of an aspiration of mine now that Pathfinder 1 has officially finished. (There's still plenty of 3rd party stuff coming out, of course.) Basically treat it like GURPS and tailor the options to the particular setting I'm running. However, while GURPS players don't expect to be...

Traits are a great idea in theory - a couple of "half-feats" that you pick at character creation to add a minor bit of customisation to your character and also give a few role-playing hooks. Of course, this being Pathfinder it was implemented in as complicated a way as possible. Lots of...

With Castle Whiterock you could, if you wanted, just run the "Red Book" - levels 1 to 6A - and ignore almost all of the rest. Any references to things on lower levels could just be viewed as referring to "somewhere in the Underdark, outside the scope of this adventure". However, it's the...

I had the Occult Adventures PDF and found the kineticist class impossible to follow. Since it's the first class in the book I just gave up at that point. (And I've been playing Pathfinder 1st edition pretty much since it came out.) When I eventually got the book version, I was able to get the...

I just checked, and I have 5 users on ignore. (Although I'm pretty sure two of those accounts were the same person.) I put them all on ignore after a very contentious thread in which the opinions they expressed were so distasteful to me I didn't want to read anything else they had written. In...

That's how I pronounce it as well, but goodness knows how I ended up with it - it's not really something that makes sense if you look at the actual letters in his name, but I can't do anything about it after all these years.

That's an interesting idea. I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work. (I'm only familiar with the Pathfinder version of the campaign, but hopefully the same applies to the other versions as well.) I seem to remember one of the dockers at the start of the first adventure might be encountered...

On the face of it, it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do. If you own one company that publishes RPGs, and another company that owns the rights to something that you think would do well as an RPG, then by licensing the rights both companies benefit. Obviously, you have to declare your...

Lorraine Williams has never commented on her time at TSR. How do you know what her intentions were? It was clearly a bad business decision, as they paid way too much for the licence, but TSR had a history of bad business decisions.

I'm only familiar with the Buck Rogers one, but as I understand it that wasn't at all fraudulent. Lorraine Williams had a significant financial interest in the transaction, she declared her interest to the other directors, and the board approved it in full knowledge of the facts. It didn't...

It doesn't really come up in my games, because I rarely game with strangers. The last time I was a player in a new group my PC explained that he always included a stout length of rope amongst his equipment "in case it turns out we have a thief in the party". When running a game I'm in favour...

I probably didn't express myself very well in my initial post, but yes, I do realise TSR created various settings, and it wasn't my intention to imply otherwise. What I was trying to say was that just as nobody would (I hope) seek to claim that Forgotten Realms is not a TSR / WotC setting...

At least they held a competition. TSR picked the Forgotten Realms from a shortlist of 1. Even if we accept that "holding a competition and picking the winner" isn't a creative process, WotC had a massive impact on the development of Eberron, right from the start.

It is only for settings they have released, but by releasing Forgotten Realms they also implicitly released Zakhara, Kara-Tur and Maztica, since they are all considered part of that setting.