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I'll preface this comment by saying I like the new Monster Core and I think Paizo is doing a good job trying to disintguish their brand of Golarion and Pathfinder from D&D. But, my observations in a nutshell include: it's got a problem of "implied setting by absence" in that the things missing...

This one sounds fun! Also sounds like if I buy it my son will take it from me and read it first. Gonna take a trip to the FLBS.

Does anyone know how D&D compares to home grown titles like Goblin Slayer RPG in Japan? I think there's a conflation in some of the posts here between "popularity of D&D" and popularity of RPGs in Japan. RPGs are very popular....but maybe not D&D itself. Call of Cthulhu is incredibly popular...

I've been positively restrained lately. I did grab Dreams & Machines (both the Player's Book and GM's book) recently, though.

I ran a short campaign of Genesys when it came out some years ago. The game lasted around 7 sessions when we bailed and moved over to Cypher System, which fit my GM style and my player group better. My recollection was as follows: 1. I discovered that symbol based dice are actually not intuitive...

Also, I am unclear on what is wrong with the Dark Souls TTRPG. I own it and it seems like a rather faithful blending of the video game's aesthetics and world with the 5E ruleset. (EDIT I have not played it, however, so maybe there's something buried in the chassis I haven't seen?)

My wife loves this kind of game and I turned her on to Gallowspire Survivors. I personally can't figure out what is happening at all, I have gotten too old to track all the explody polygons apparently.

The good news here is the last several books (including the Tricorder Edition rules) have been exactly readable black text on white background, so I think they learned that lesson.

I just got my copy of Cypher System's Rust & Redemption- looks good so far, haven't been able to apply it to an actual game yet. I snagged three new books for Vast Grimm. Blood Altared has neat looking capaign, and Space Cruisers and Space Raiders are chock full of useful content for this weird...

Has anyone received a copy of TLG's Conan books yet? Curious about the editing and layout. Also....does this mean TLG has some sort of publishing right to Conan now, or are they just taking advantage of the stories being out of copyright? Shadowdark looks intriguing graphically, but I can't...

This means my group will have time to play Tales of the Valiant and other systems for a while before evaluating the new books. I'm cool with that!

Not to mention I bet a nontrivial number of those same backers still buy the next edition of D&D as well.

The QR codes would be a deal breaker for me too, unfortunately. That said, I do have a hard time grasping what the solo approach is about, and why it is more compelling than other forms of solo entertainment (books, video games, creative writing exercises) or even pick-a-path solos which I loved...

Electric State, QuestWorlds and Tales of the Valiant all have my eye. I'd have included Mothership 1E but I have all the PDFs and have only been awaiting the print edition's final delayed release for over a year now, so I felt like some support for other 2024 releases was in order.

As one who loved AD&D 2E and was there, I think this is a tough assertion to make. If anything, TSR's "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" approach saturated the market with crap, and the good stuff floated to the surface....and is what we remember. On the basis of volume, WotC has...

I think they finally fixed this, as it was a constant issue for my group and then the problem suddenly disappeared about a month or two ago.

What Star Wars 5E game?!?!?! Where??? I am only aware of Fantasy Flight's Star Wars system with the awkward dice. I would really love to see a new Star Wars in a different system. EDIT - never mind, did a quick search and remembered I am old and didn't remember there is an online fan...

I'm definitely picking these up. I've been in a weird "burnout" space for a while, due to a variety of issues but one I quietly have to concede is that I am just not excited by 5E and anything being produced for it anymore (digging out my old 3rd edition stuff to pour through is more fun and...

That was about what I paid for my iPad Air on sale a year or two ago. It's a decent tablet, I have to say. I am not sure what it is missing that the other much more expensive iPads have, though (other than only having 64GB storage).

The low-end Samsungs definitely are cheaper (but you get what you pay for; the one I had was a high end model). Where are you finding iPads that cheap? As for Fire...they are better than people realize, you just have to deal with the Amazon restrictions or jailbreak it.