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I wonder if this new edition can lead to Pathfinder 1.5 branching off It won't. The release of 4th edition was a funny time. Wizards of the Coast wanted less competition, so they thought they'd release a D&D that didn't involve Open Content. They'd 'own' D&D again. But to make that happen, ...

I wonder if this new edition can lead to Pathfinder 1.5 branching off, because Paizo screwed up - I don't think people who genuinely like D&D 5e will like PF 2e, and as someone who accepts that PF 1e isn't perfect, but about as close to what I want from mainstream gaming systems, I'd say that PF...

That's what I get for going off to work for days at a time. So much stuff to read through. Oh, ffs. Russia was not fucked by the "extreme left." It was fucked by the usual selfish totalitarian fuckwads, who just happened to start by picking up a leftist ideology and selling it to the publi...

And since I live in a country that's been thoroughly fucked by the extreme left and doesn't seem like it's about to recover any time soon (poor people are still fucked) Unless you're from Venezuela, I find this bit somewhat strange. Care to elaborate? Oh, it's Russia. It's never been that good, but...

Maybe you just live in a more innocent place of the internet, but this sets off all kind of warning flags for me. Not sure why you would be appalled at the presence of such a paragraph, see nothing wrong with telling nazis to fuck off everywhere. Also the part where you say "extremist ideology...

So my friend actually got his hands on the V5 corebook. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad. All that nu-WW needed to do was to wash their hands of politics altogether and make a game. Not even a good one, we all know this is kinda impossible for them, but a playable one. I want to reiterate -...

Eh, I've caught on fire a few times in VtM. Granted, I had Fortitude (3 dots, so not much), and my ST was a good enough person to actually let me just stop, drop and roll to stop burning alive (undead, w/e). So you didn't use the actual rules for fire in the game and then didn't experience the outc...

Eh, I've caught on fire a few times in VtM. Granted, I had Fortitude (3 dots, so not much), and my ST was a good enough person to actually let me just stop, drop and roll to stop burning alive (undead, w/e).

Because if you know that you'll succeed with 100% chance, that's when you're actually telling tactics and planning to fuck themselves, because you can just mindlessly charge ahead. No need for plan b, no need to worry about what the other dudes are doing, just shout your catch phrase and win the da...

While these aren't the cold hard static numbers I'd hoped for, because fuck worldbuilding, apparently, they do seem to understand that actual static DCs need to exist. It's just that they haven't given any examples of those.

As for the argument over Triggered as a word/meme/joke/whatever, the only place I've heard of the word was a couple of abridged series, and while for all I know I'll soon get a link proving TFS is comprised of alt-right racists, for right now I'm going to just guess there were some tone-deaf jokes....

It's rather sad to note the number of high-level monsters in the 5E D&D who have a ton of anti-caster defenses but have no real answer to, say, an Eldritch Knight popping an Oathbow use, getting their Action Surge and Sharpshooter on, and then killing off the ancient white dragon/Astral Dreadna...

I remain dumbfounded by how bad they fucked up W:TA. How hard is it to let people be furry Planeteers? Why do you have to take part in dog rape based eugenics programs? Because they want everything to be angsty and sad, even when you're playing murderous Captain Planet or a fairytale character. It'...

There are lots of things that are wrong with White Wolf. This isn't one of them. Admitting that neo-nazis exist and might even get Embraced is not a bad thing. Having vampires be as disparate and multi-faceted in their opinions and beliefs as humans is absolutely normal. Brujah are defined by their ...

There was a Strike in the Path of War subsystem for Pathfinder, which dealt additional damage depending on the target's HP percentage. The disciple makes an attack against a foe which if successful deals additional damage determined by the state of the enemy’s hit points. If the enemy has more than ...

I would like to correct my previous post. There are, in fact, a few lines about spellcasting and resistances/immunities. The only actual numbers given are "Resistance improves EHP by this much depending on CR, Immunity by this much". There are no rules for multiple resistances, and spellca...

There's clearly no formula at all. Monsters are supposed to have CRs based on what level they would be overly threatening at, but actually the CRs are just completely fucking random. Let's take a walk around CR 4. Oh, there is a formula. It's just bad. 5e DMG has it on page 274. It takes into accou...

To Ignimortis I'd say that 5e doesn't need any more half casters because only full casters are functional in 5e. I started playing with an entire group that was brand new and it only took until 3rd session for even new players to recognize that playing anything but a caster was extremely boring and...

Content can't fix most flaws with 5e. But if I were to ignore its' numerous flaws and focus of "what is lacking", I'd say that 5e needs an INT-based halfcaster along the lines of Paladins/Rangers, because both Eldritch Knight and Bladesinger are shit. Also any martial class with complexity...

Let us not mention the skill web for defaulting . . You've gone and mentioned it, so I wonder what that would mean. Is there something like a system that allows you to substitute dice from one skill for another one reasonably close enough with a slight penalty, but still having a bonus? Something l...

Better proposal: allow sword dudes to actually reach those distant targets by some means such as flight, teleportation, or making ranged attacks by waving their sword fast enough and producing razor wind or whatever. By level 10+, you should be able to cleave the air hard enough it hits someone 100...

Better proposal: allow sword dudes to actually reach those distant targets by some means such as flight, teleportation, or making ranged attacks by waving their sword fast enough and producing razor wind or whatever. By level 10+, you should be able to cleave the air hard enough it hits someone 100 ...

Thanks to everyone for responses, much appreciated. I've forwarded all of that to my GM, we'll see if he considers those reasons enough to go with an earlier edition (I guess 4.5e would be nice).

My DM is intent on starting a Shadowrun campaign, but since 5e is the latest edition, he naturally gravitates towards that. Could someone give me a nice good comparison of 4e and 5e, as I've heard that 4e is better so many times on these boards but didn't bother to collect the arguments in a separat...

White Wolf never really decided for themselves whether a blood point is 1/10 of a physical blood supply of a body, or if it's just a 1/10th of some amorphous lifeforce which doesn't leave a human a liter of blood down from a "safe" feeding. They are still undecided on that, I think, becaus...