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So....Has anyone played Starfinder yet? I'm looking to try and actually read the damn thing at some point, and maybe several months from now run a game. I've become a little curious about it in coming months, especially after I got the product Deck of Many Worlds that showed off there being a pletho...

(Salutes) Deceptions Forever, loss of any Denner is a tragedy to discussion.

Holy.....Shit. As a Casual Lurker, sometimes poster on here, I tried looking up why Frank Trollman 's name had changed to Username17 , and looks like I just missed the opening of Dark Souls or something. I have now since read the two posts ( here & here ) showing his departure, Shrapnel 's Depar...

I'm sorry you guys weren't aware of that trailer before, but I am as equally enraged by it as when I first saw it back in December. As a fan of the Dark Alliance/Snowblind Engine games, I was hoping for a true sequel, rather than "here's us doing a story based on Drizzt Books that are still bei...

https://i.imgur.com/GadHhEo.png It is it me, or is the distances on this beautiful map really bad? The World Map? Looks awesome, but when I go to measure distances I'm extremely disappointed. The Great Steppes across the Heartlands looks to be about 100 miles, and that seems way too small, seems li...

As I came to understand over the years, your character "trains" to have their class features, and so it's less an ability pops into existence, and more it's something they're implied to have been working toward all along. The DM is supposed to look ahead, and have the story accommodate thi...

I'm a fan of Rick & Morty, though I don't "relate to" characters in media, moreso I'm interested in finding them entertaining/funny/interesting. Which point Rick & Morty has been interesting, much like Season 3+ Bojack, Golden-Ages Simpsons, 90's Family Guy, Durarara!, and so forth...

Has Anyone picked up the adventure yet? I'm curious how it fairs, where it fails, and how it can be better. Also I heard saw a comic of Rick & Morty playing D&D, so that seemed neat.

1.) 3.X D&D w/Tome Houserules especially Red Rob' s Magic Item/Wish Economy. 2.) Shadow of the Demon Lord: It's become my comfort food of an RPG to run at this point, I got fair amount of adventures left, and I have a fair understanding of its meta to do more builds for years, and make my own ad...

Maybe give "not special" as an option, but make it obvious that they're making the decision to keep playing the same old game while everyone else gets cool powers. It's best not to create trap-options in a game, as people will play it, even with warning signs (unless the game has enough b...

It probably also doesn't help that designers have more to work with imagination-wise when it comes to magic, or spells, than specific abilities. They also tend to add more stuff casually that makes magic overpowered, whereas they hold back on abilities applying bits of REALIZARM (or their false perc...

At first I thought he was literally agreeing with Frank, bringing up this post for posterity for how much this has come true, years later, and what Frank's said holds all too true.

Aryxbez, the Sensualist followers are all prey, so can't use blood in a fight like predators do. Same for the Puppet-Master with his (mortal) assets. Also, payment for predators is made in debt so you would be back at the beginning. I could see some cases where another predator would charge real mo...

The problem is convincing someone to help you. Probably he/she will ask a major debt for it. And if you look the Bargain move again, you'll see owing a major debt to someone is really bad. Being a Sensualist gives you at least "few in number" of people who likely worship you, which is the...

Evidently I am in the unique position of having already owned this game from a Horror-themed Bundle of Holding (Think Humble Bundle, but for Tabletop RPG's, nevermind they sometimes do tabletop as well). What Frustrates me is unclear mechanics for abilities Such as: Nightmare's Blood Slave , You hav...

Shadow of the Demon Lord roughly has a Lifestyle system, which you get one for free at start, but every adventure afterwards you have to pay for a Lifestyle of varying degree (Destitute/Poor/Getting By/Comfortable/Wealthy/Rich/). Starting is most notable for this where being Rich gets you horses/ser...

I would think you'd want it to be more general weapon types, opposed to specifically Hammers, or Glaives. So perhaps One-handed, Two-Handed, Reach Weapon, Double Weapon, Ranged Weapon? and then you add traits to weapons to sorta "build-a-weapon". So maybe can make a One-hadned "finess...

I'm also curious about the above Monster Creation rules in Oath of Frozen King. Otherwise, should we care about this? Seems like they're referring to Board games, and likely other non-RPG related stuff in regards to D&D. Rather the brand is becoming a bit more popular, but not necessarily more p...

No real feedback right now, especially with it likely in hiatus or dead. That said, I am amazed this exists, as I quite liked Bionicles as a kid, and wanted to explore its world. I really enjoyed the GBA game where you played a Matoran. So consider me like the 3rd fan who knows this exists now, huzz...

Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire's story is a giant dumpster fire. If you did literally nothing and just sat in the first tavern and drank beer for five months... Nothing would change. You absolutely can not, by any means, stop Eothas. He is an indestructible giant adra golem who shrugs off combined...

Then you can complete it with a Mara Figure, so too, your RPGing can climb this tower!

I'm one of the few people who enjoyed playing 4e in part years ago (even though it's bad, and constant gear checking be dumb), and even then I've no idea on any of this. Closest I could find was about Shardminds , and thus my guess is ye sculpt one out to look human-like. Course that's not mass-prod...

Hang on a second, why is Unarmed redundant? In Fallout New Vegas: You had a Melee Combat, and an Unarmed combat skill, and you had to keep them both at the roughly same level in order to get Melee-specific perks later on, a cost that wasn't as shared among other combat specializations. You only get...

Sounds like Pistols are fairly sweet in this system, as you can start every combat with Dual Pistol Shots unless there's a TWF Penalty I'm missing so far. Given this is Josh Sawyer, the guy who agreed that Unarmed was redundant in Fallout: New Vegas, I'm surprised he went so granular with skills. Re...

Forgive my ignorance, I recall reading awhile back that Pun-Pun wasn't actually Legal by RAW, but I can't quite fine the posts/threads that prove this in detail. Could anyone provide me with where this was said by Frank or whomever it was?