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I barely missed the kickstarter so I decided to pre-order just a few days ago (to get in on the pdf deal). pre-ordered the book at my local shop got a receipt and e-mailed it to preorders@numenera.com haven't heard anything back yet. i'm assuming they are swamped but wondering if i should...

Yes it is. I like random because it takes power away from me as a DM and puts power in 'the world'. In character generation I always prefer random stats within limits. The characters tend to be more interesting and less slightly less typical than with a point buy system. Someone might choose...

I get what you're saying. I should have been more specific but I didn't really feel the need. I tend to assume people won't bother picking things apart where there's really nothing to pick apart. I agree with you but RPGs are different than reality. I was talking about how things go in an RPG...

That'd be because the concept of heroism is succeeding where you're not expected to succeed. Everyone wants to be heroic. The difference I think is whether the heroic moments occur naturally, simply because stuff doesn't go down as intended. Or because they've been framed and designed to be...

I like limitations. My group tends to also. Limitations on the world just helps define each campaign more for us. Because generally speaking it's pretty sandbox. So those big sweeping restrictions are one of the most fundamental differences between campaigns for us. Also I don't see planescape...

That's why random encounters are AWESOME.

Personally I think the preference for different styles and different systems is also related to the overall form the game takes. What I mean by form is more sandbox and location based or more story and time based. I think most people try to find a balance here but I feel the different systems...

Oh I don't know. Maybe people like different things? :cool: No explanation is needed.

I'm firmly combat as war with some combat as sport. As are all my players. This notion that combat as war means the DMing "letting" the players win is ridiculous. I don't let my players win. The defeat or fail at encounters I've set up to challenge them. If they win it's because they defeated...

D&D isn't just used to refer to that specific game. It's often used to refer to fantasy roleplaying games in general. PFRPG clearly targeted people coming from 3.5. They even state it and it's all OGL material. I don't think it tries to appear as D&D the brand so much as it appears as a fantasy...

I realize that. That's more an issue of how long it was in the oven and how much they did to get fan reactions. Which I don't think they did enough of. They just went with the gut motivation to fix the complications brought by 3E and codify the game to facilitate easy and organized play...

I do not understand why people think everyone who plays Pathfinder is some sycophant. I don't understand what player demand is maybe. We like the way paizo handles things. We like the communication. We like the people involved. The production values, the (usual) attention to detail, and the...

str dex con int wis cha it just sounds better in my head. i may also have some bias.

If they had started with essentials I might be playing 4E now instead of PF. Then when they released the 'Advanced'PHB they would already have all that experience and feedback designing classes and powers that aren't so bland and uninteresting to me. It's a shame. Essentials made me excited...

Maybe your theme only 'levels up' every 3-5 class levels. and your race levels up every 10?

I play Pathfinder and no ship has sailed. The reason people like paizo and pathfinder is because of how the company handles things. They've developed a lot of respect in the community and being a much smaller company are able to do some stuff that wotc can't easily do. I like D&D first and...

Well I think he was saying simply what powers are. What they are is great for top down game design and organization. It makes things much easier on the design end since the structure of powers means they can basically combine xyz and presto, new power. It makes comparing much much more straight...

Well you could just add sort of like landmarks in your leveling. Maybe every 5 levels you get to increase skills instead of every level. But at every level you gain a feat or some other kind of ability or option. Ability scores maybe never change except magically. Maybe base attack bonus or...

I like your post in general but I just wanted to say as for the (1) multiclassing issue. I'd think it wouldn't be a big deal to simply label some qualities in a class as 'multi-classable' and others as not. So you only get xyz when you multi-class into the class vs starting as the class. This...

HAhahaaha. Leaving out some other things I said sort of warps what I said. But that is the point ultimately. I don't want 5E to look like 4E, 3E, 2E, AD&D, etc. If 5E is going to be about the history of the game that's fine. As long as they also push into new territory design wise just like...