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They dramatically underpriced their stretchgoals - they've torn through them nearly all of them in less than an hour. With the fact they're looking for a May '26 delivery date, I hope they are careful not to overextend themselves with stretch goals. The only thing stopping me from running a...

If this had been a physical book or a PDF I'd buy it. I'm not paying to lease it on D&Dbeyond.

Instead of retreading the exact same conversation that tons of people have had about pf2, here's a relevant, short video from the lead designer of the system on the subject.

If you already don't like Cypher, the new edition won't change enough to change that. If you're on the fence or already do like it, I think the new edition will bring lots of welcome improvements, from what I've seen.

Changes to how damage works, better tools to get started quickly in most genres, generally cleaned up rules language and ability text. Probably not, the roll system is the same. No, the character progression will be the same. The only change is that you'll get more things to choose from, not...

The 2014 DM's Guide gives reasonable guidance on handling secret doors, Page 103-104. Added some Bold/Italics to highlight important lines. No int in your group? Break down the doors! "Secret Doors A secret door is crafted to blend into the wall that surrounds it. Sometimes faint cracks in...

Crazy to me that he just basically disappeared. Esp. since he'd put out lots of stuff successfully and been active in the community up till then. Same thing happened with Gio Lasar (Dice kickstarter) and most recently with J.D. Maxwell (Grimwild kickstarter)

Earthdawn has some seriously interesting system and setting stuff going on. But ultimately, its another pretty dense fantasy game and I own lots of those already. It's not worth the effort getting into. Savage Sisters looks like a really excellent storytelling game but requires everyone to be...

The all in contains tons of good stuff, and the Predation book being added is going to make it even better. Especially if you don't own most of the Cypher Revised PDF stuff - they're fantastic resources.

Shadowdark is descended from BX D&D and related games - Your character is defined by their Class and Attributes. Your character is largely randomly generated and broadly competent. The ideal playstyle is classic d&d dungeoneering, with lots of the gameplay handled through GM rulings...

The one thing about old school games that is true of all tables is that everyone's table will be different than everyone else's.

Basically, the 'player skill' focused OSR mentality (as popularized by Matt Finch's Primer written in 2008) is a fairly recent invention. The original 1970s-80s game/adventure designers did not really intend their games to be played in that specific way. So lots of old school adventures have...

Time is a flat circle.

The genre books are genuinely good resources even if you never run a Cypher system game specifically.

While this looks great, I gotta imagine the disappointment a new player would go through going from this to paper sheets. Modular, component-heavy, and intuitive character boards to clunky, boring, and number-dense character sheets. Plus, after level 1 tons of character stuff that won't even...

Basic D&D is more compatible with AD&D than AD&D is with itself.

Yes, broadly competent characters tend to work best when you have a narrow campaign frame, like dungeon delving.

Generally the more you define skills and specific actions in your ruleset, the more 'incompetent' PCs become. If you have no skills or statistics, anyone can try to do anything with reasonably similar success chance.

This rule applies specifically to 'stowed' items, which should only be the <4 bulk of items that you keep in your backpack. Consumables should always be considered 'worn' and can be retrieved with a single action. The only limitation on 'worn' items is that you cannot wear more than 2 Bulk of...

Great question. This has never stopped OSR fans in the past and never will.