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Paradox has decided to part ways with Modiphus and do development for the tabletop Vampire: The Masquerade in-house under Justin Achilli and partnering with Renegade Game Studios. Sounds kind of like early D&D5e with a small in-house team and then farming stuff out to others for the grunt work. ...

Paradox has decided to part ways with Modiphus and do development for the tabletop Vampire: The Masquerade in-house under Justin Achilli and partnering with Renegade Game Studios. Sounds kind of like early D&D5e with a small in-house team and then farming stuff out to others for the grunt work. ...

Paradox has decided to part ways with Modiphus and do development for the tabletop Vampire: The Masquerade in-house under Justin Achilli and partnering with Renegade Game Studios. Sounds kind of like early D&D5e with a small in-house team and then farming stuff out to others for the grunt work. ...

Paradox has decided to part ways with Modiphus and do development for the tabletop Vampire: The Masquerade in-house under Justin Achilli and partnering with Renegade Game Studios. Sounds kind of like early D&D5e with a small in-house team and then farming stuff out to others for the grunt work. ...

https://www.polygon.com/2020/6/4/21280297/kingdoms-of-amalur-remaster-release-date-re-reckoning-xbox-one-ps4-pc-price-leak Polygon is reporting Kingdoms of Amalur is getting a remaster, which reminded me how neat I thought the character system was. Rather than determining stats, then choosing a clas...

What's the down side to cribbing from every RPG video game in the last 10 years and having 'spending more on lifestyle costs' give you noncombat bonuses? Stay at the Squalor Hotel and you're sheltered and fed. Stay at the House of Platinum Pleasures and you get, say, a bardic Inspiration die that la...

percentile roll-over target 100 and degrees of success. I like my granularity.

bunch of dudes with the ability to cast Goodberry, Create Water, and Mending. Now the only question is how many dudes with bows do you want to bring to solve your problem.

JonSetanta wrote:I see your points.

And for 1000 gold you can get a slotless magic item that casts Cure Minor Wounds on the whole party 1 HP at a time between battles so there's no worry about resting to heal.

Way late to the party, but stat this out for me?

see I'd much rather see something simpler, like short/1-hand/heavy (with guidelines for how to categorize a specific weapon, i.e. (short weapons are one hand weapons under 3 lb and shorter than 24 inches for a Medium size humanoid) with static damage codes (A sword does 4 damage plus bonus damage ba...

What was the class Frank and K worked up? Leonard the Fighter or something. It had a magic item class feature, Dragon ally later on, etc

Aside from mechanics questions which you all have covered, I'd like to circle back around to the question of digital tools / etc. D&D Beyond is evolving into a thing that I think you could reasonably build a game around; it handles many of the follies that modern gamers have - character generati...

Discounting the quality of the actual rules, how do you guys think the D&D 4e books worked out? Both the original core set and the Essentials compendiums?

Paradox/WhiteWolf finally breaks silence; they're doing a Werewolf: The Apocalypse game http://werewolf-videogame.com/en

No real information there yet, but looks like they're partnered with Cyanide (boo) and Fathom (yay!)

Passive checks are skill+5 instead of skill+10 (to make it less likely that not-searching for a thing is better odds than searching for it). ASI/Feat split needs to go away. My favored solution is that Feats come whenever you get an ASI based on classes, Stat increases at 4, 8, 12, 16. Advantage/Dis...

5e is doing well enough to Hire a new designer I guess.

Edit: it's interesting to me that the job category for a WOTC design employee is "Marketing, Brand & Community Management". Of course that could just be HR system weirdness buuuuuuuuuut

I toyed with doing this by giving everybody the beneficial effects of Vow of Poverty behind the scenes; never got to play with it, though, so not sure how it would have gone.

So how well does D&D5e handle mundane and magical long distance travel Exploration is like social interaction in that it's mostly make shit up. Wizards get some teleportation spells, notable in that you get 3.5 teleport as a level 7 spell and they want you to use premade circles. Skill system i...

Yeah, of D&D-native wizards, Elminster is by far the easy choice as most well known.

Then probably a toss-up between Mordenkainen, Bigby, Tenser, and Evard, just from the spells they're famous for.

As soon as I saw the "if we're supposed to make it all up, why do we pay you for a rule book" I knew it was somebody from here.

Design work is done, I'd throw some $$$ at a layout guy and some artwork just to get some additional revenue out of the work

GW wanted more than FFG wanted to pay, OR

FFG has Star Wars and doesn't want to expand resources so they can support ongoing SW development in addition to GW game development.

If the latter, I gotta commend FFG for letting the license go instead of sitting on it for years.

Speaking of FFG, they've given up, or had taken away the Warhammer license, and as of February they are ceasing sales of a bunch of Warhammer related games.

Patrick Goodman is now the official Shadowrun 5e errata coordinator, in a process modeled after the Battletech Errata process.

http://forums.shadowruntabletop.com/ind ... ic=24481.0

Anybody we know get tapped to join?

Did the Force Sensitive character already get detailed? I always want to be a space wizard when given the opportunity to be a space wizard.