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And its not only expensive, its also really bad laid out, felt for me really unprofessional especially since it makes reading the rules take even longer than normal.. I would start with something cheaper and easier to read maybe ironsworn which is free and more different to D&D: Free...

Yes he is wrong. As someone in boardgaming he should definitly know more than 2 examples of completly new games. Deckbuilding with Dominion should come to mind as one. And then there are other candidates, like Risk Legacy as the first Legacy game which started a new genre. And with his old...

The amouns of powers which were multi attacks was always small. Well one should assume a baseline though, and not measure things on outliners, especially if you write guides. If 5% of the options are way above the rest, then these 5% of options are not "good" and the others "crap" then these 5%...

But are the mechanics so different? It is a quite typical non magical class. Needing to activate class feature with action tax With its own keyword to make it sound more different Multi attack based Just forcing some athletics etc. based attacks (which other classes also need to do...

I was also thinking about shadowdark. It has some changes (mostly spellcasting) but to big degrees its just 5e stripped down (with more focus on dungeon crawling).

And the Thaumaturge is one of the more exciting classes, thats the sad part. They have at least with some interesting choices with the implements, which are not just sleightly empowered basic attacks. I think the problem is that they do want to have "Build diversity", and if they suddenly...

Most people playing RPGs never did read the rules of those RPGs because they were just explained to them. Exactly what I mean. You are people who read rules, and this is required in PF2, while in 5E almost no one reads the rules, because its not necessarily. Thats why you dont see the...

Ah I would give a different explanation. With how much GMs online excuse their misbehaviour and how often GMs form bubbles in online discussions, I would expect that a lot of the bad GM behaviour of an AI just comes from these GM discussion groups. So we as the players must train the AI the...

I think for D&D it would make a lot more sense to create something similar to a colour pie specific for D&D in a similar vein D&D 4e made. With 2 dimensions 1 dimension being the power source: Martial, Primal, Arcane, Divine And the 2nd dimension being the combat role: Striker, Defender...

Your groups of people obsessed with PF2 all of them having spent/wasted 100+ hours reading about the system? PF2 tends to draw in more people who like to spend many hours reading about the system and because they do the same thing with other systems (where this is not necessarily) they...

I fully agree PF2 as a system is a lot less robust than other ones. Because they too extreme balancing small mistakes have a much bigger influence of the game. In other systems having an additional +2 on hit by mistake is not big thing. In PF2 this is considered huge. And PF2 has so many...

In addition to this nowadays in order to do a successfull kickstarter you need already art. No one will fund a project whithout art. This means if you pay an artist in advance for the kickstarter you need a not ignoreable financial investment, which adds even more pressure.

The fighter is one of the simple classes in 5E. And 5E is made in a way that as a player you can start playing a fighter without reading anything, or just reading the short intro character rules. Having 120 pages to read to play 1 (simple) class, just does not sound like a good idea for me...

I really think you overestimate how the general populace like cartoony designs. Nerds are fine with them, but many people find it ridiculous still especially older ones, the ones which are most in contact with the health sector. And people doing nursury already have problems with people not...

Health care. Its even mentioned. People feel a lot better when touched by something which feels like a human than by a cold robot. Then other uses: The robot giving massages The robot being a training dummy for massages or CPRs or health care personal etc. (learning how to touch humans is...

I think its fine to say its a 4/5 and then mention the small things you did not fully enjoy. I think this product could have profitted from some extra pages (for table of contents etc.), but it was most likely meant to be a not too expensive product so with limited page numbers. Have you read...

This for me just sounds way too complicated for a rather straightforward class. They can do different specializations with picking different skills and expertises. They are already way more complex than a fighter because of half casting. Of course if one get rid of casting one could do some...

Thanj you for the thorough answer! I will go more in detail another time, but I really appreciate this! I did disagree with you quite a bit in the other thread but this made it a lot more clear qhat you mean. I think one big difference for you and for me is that with Ranger being flexible I...

This is exactly what I was thinking. For me it 100% makes sense to have a table what a hard DC by level is, but not the same things should be hard for a level 1 and a level 11. Having a clear numerical table helps GMs to set challenges as hard as they want, but of course also having a table of...

Just because many people make bad examples, because they dont really know much about modern gamedesign does not mean that old gamedesign is not bad. People in there also claimed "oh I played MTG in 1992" when I brought it as an example of modern gamedesign, completly missing the point that MTG...