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Theros is getting its own official D&D campaign sourcebook soon and now I'm kinda interested in what that'll offer since that makes the third book about running 5E in Ancient Greece that I know of (Arkadia was a recent KS about the same topic). There really must be a market for that kind of thi...

Theros is getting its own official D&D campaign sourcebook soon and now I'm kinda interested in what that'll offer since that makes the third book about running 5E in Ancient Greece that I know of (Arkadia was a recent KS about the same topic). There really must be a market for that kind of thing?

BTW, Eldritch Horror is an improvement on Arkham Horror as a boardgame. The Arkham Horror LCG is also quite good, although it is a money sink in the way that the board game is not, because you need to buy a new deck of cards for each individual scenario, rather than getting like six per expansion. ...

I don't mean Eberron splatbooks, I'm looking for information on how that setting came to be, what the Setting Search was like (rules-wise and such), and if there were any other strong contenders or a top 5 list of participating entries.

@Blicero: Thanks, I'll look for that Pyramid issue!

Random question: does anyone remember details about WotC's Setting Search back in 2002, or knows about a blog or something about it? Since Eberron has been officially announced as a 5E release, I'd love to get some background on that setting, but I haven't found anything beyond the most vague of des...

The larger question you might have is why WotC seems to be so chillaxed about former company employees selling ideas for real money that were obviously made while they were on the clock working for Wizards of the Coast. It's not just Monte Cook, several of their former employees have done this. -Us...

The chances of success are modified in your character's favor through skills, equipment and advantageous situations, if any. In addition, you can decide to apply Effort, which is like pushing yourself, which costs points from the related Pool (Might, Speed or Intellect), all of which combined also r...

Cypher certainly feels a lot like D&D in play, and works well for the same types of adventures. I've run adventures set in D&D land and in the MtG multiverse with it and in all instances it worked quite well. It will however not be good fit for players who enjoy d20-based systems such as 3.5...

When I try to access the The World of Future Darkness OSSR at http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=57149, I get this warning: https://abload.de/img/wtf6jdiw.jpg Win7x64 with all patches, Chrome Version 69.0.3497.100 (Official Build) (64-bit). It doesn't matter if I go as logged user or anonymous or usin...

Is a shield-using Nano viable? I'm fine being stuck with either spells or weapons; if changing between the two is made impossible for mechanic/balance reasons. Absolutely. For some reason, a lot of people ignore shields - or the standard healing rules not based on special abilities - but they exist...

Any advice on where to spend ~11 XP? Right now I recall talking with two of the other players, the other Nano PCs players, and I recall something about a Nano who is better at getting spell access. Since Monte couldn't avoid D&D trappings if his life depended on it, Nanos suffer from many of th...

DenizenKane wrote:You could make the players always be the active roller, and the GM is always passive.

Numenera works like that. Players roll to attack and defend and whatever other actions the MC pulls out of his hat (or reads from his monster stats). The only MC rolls are on random tables.

If this move by WotC does anything it might make me spend money on 5E for the first time 'just' because of MAGIC. I bet this applies to a lot of people. Also, there are D&D players and MCs who aren't aware of the Planeshift PDFs and so they see this as a first time of the two brands meeting in ...

I've used gallopers or message riders often in my games. I think it just makes a lot of sense in any quasi medieval society where mounts are available, and even in D&D land. The way I see it, a lot of the cliché inns in D&D adventures essentially are message rider stations because they can b...

On that note, is there a full 5E SRD released somewhere? I've found two, that only have (the same) partial material. I'd assumed only a fraction of their content released was open source, but I have no idea what sort of OGL they're running with, now. In short: No. There are the Basic Rules with onl...

Numenera... It's not about becoming Scrooge McDuck (the quintessential murderhobo btw), since the system is made so you can never have more than three magic items (not even in a bag). That is only true for the one-off random cyphers, 'real' artifacts (which would be something like BL2 guns and shie...

Numenera, or rather the Cypher System engine without the setting stuff, might be another contender. You could flavor a huge part of the Borderlands gear as cyphers, maybe raise the amount PCs are able to carry, and go nuts. Character options are sufficient to model any and all main characters from t...

Adventurer Conqueror King looks pretty cool because, OSR wonkiness aside, they made rules for an adventurer economy (or an economy run by adventurers) and incorporated all the old advancement promises of castles, keeps, temples and guilds you could run or build. I haven't played or tested ACKS, but ...

Can the death of the RPG industry be reversed, as opposed to slowed down, by good design? Or is the tabletop medium simply unable to keep up in the long run? Not as long as crowdfunding is as popular as it is today. Between crazy overfunded projects from the likes of Monte Cook and the umpteenth sm...

What I find mind-boggling is that they had to do this shit after the release. Again. UW has been announced, I dunno, like a year ago? What the heck have the authors and editors been doing in all that time? And that it's yet again a DEX-to-damage issue is... man, I don't even. This is just ridiculous.

What would that be? There's a slayer with shadow images that comes to mind The Stygian Slayer? Combined with Sniper, that makes a decent combo for a ranged build. I'm not up to date on PF, or which archetypes are still good with alle the FAQs flying around, but I remember the Daring Champion archet...

I honestly don't know what a 'wilderness system' would do. The basic idea seems to be that the players should have a way of buying their exploration success instead of wandering around aimlessly, but the way it's set up feels very artificial. If you gather enough points from decoding way signs or d...

I don't care much about the Shifter, it was a safe bet from the beginning that this class would be shitty because the only times Paizo has ever managed to do martial classes without magics that don't utterly suck was when someone from the B-Team wrote an accidentally good archetype. What did disappo...

The Slayer needs a few levels to become interesting, so at 2nd level the Ninja might be a more interesting choice. The Sniper archetype is very good for ranged builds, but at 2nd level you're missing the sneak attack dice for it's main feature to work. If the plan is to advance to higher levels, the...

Eberron features a number of weird or magical types of wood, don't know which supplement they might be listed in, but there is some ranting about soarwood (?) being a vital component of the elemental airships (and at least two conflicting descriptions of its properties), and the the controlled expor...