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I am definitely assuming 5e has sold a bunch of their core books. Still, I concur that it is probable that 3.x had more revenue… but profit is presumably what the overlords care about. Selling PDFs with about 100% margins beats the piss out of books with 40% margins. Do they give PDFs free with the ...

but 40k subscriptions lost comes out to over 1 million dollars lost annually. Not even hundreds of thousands? Oh, ho ho. Nothing that audacious! And while 5e is likely more profitable than 3e and 3.5 combined, I wouldn’t dare to think of comparing it to 4e, truly a titanium dragon of editions*. And...

I wonder if we have an idea of how many subscribers that were paying for a subscription, to give us an idea of the figures 5e was actually raking in? I'm still of the assumption that 5E still less popular than 3.X D&D monetarily, and simply just brought wider exposure to the hobby, rather than ...

The Bard Core Brawlers music battle one seemed interesting. Probably not enough meat on the bones for an entire campaign setting, but kinda fun. I kind of like where they were going with the modular heroic damage in Choose Your Weapons, though sure sounds like they took a dump on the worst class in ...

So, the real critique of my big monsters being sessile is that they don’t really answer the problem of friendly NPCs who are just like you but better. The game assumes there are sessile monsters out there already and that’s neither here nor there. I think if you want endearing NPCs who can also wrec...

You’re supposed to bring that high level deep thought. I’m here for color.

I now want to make a setting where dragons are convinced that land ownership can be part of their hoard and they jealously protect their city as it is part of their wealth. So you get rival dragon kingdoms and act as agents of a dragon king/queen or as rebels or upstarts. Isn't that just Shadowrun?...

I now want to make a setting where dragons are convinced that land ownership can be part of their hoard and they jealously protect their city as it is part of their wealth. So you get rival dragon kingdoms and act as agents of a dragon king/queen or as rebels or upstarts.

I most like the zordon method. Handicap the Uber NPC in some way, usually in travel. There needs to be a reason the character who is more capable than the PCs doesn’t do their job yet still is supreme in their region of dominance, and limited mobility is a fine way to do it. In my game I currently r...

Nice review, as usual!

I am coming away very surprised at how decent the material looks, but I reckon I'd never touch it due to the baggage of the source material. Sad that their talents weren't aimed elsewhere as this was the first 5e product to pique my interest.

What,they replaced Dick Cocksmith or whatever his name was? Travesty!

The regular old fit and broadly competent Marvel heroes do start feeling kinda samey after a while despite having unique power sets and sometimes the fun happens when the psion gets strength drained to 0 and has to repeatedly fling himself back to town with telekinesis. Please tell me Professor X d...

FWIW, probably for the last 10 years I have made it a habit that before I hit post on anything that I spent more than a minute on, I would select all and copy so that I could paste it again if something got fucky in the posting process. That reflex has saved my posts a few times for sure.

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Thu Jun 02, 2022 11:09 am

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Well, from the name, Stellar Oracles implies they get prophecies from astrology. And there is reference to "the secret charts of the Stellar Oracles" as a Rank 5 Destiny. As for their inspiration/source... Personally, I think I would like to see them more like Card Captor Sakura (even thou...

From what I've read and watched about Holodomor, it sounds like a genocide in that it was an intentional amplification of famine along with other punishments and refusal of aid, and that it was intended in part to punish and remove some Ukrainian leaders to keep their people in line. The reason it d...

Jokes on all you fools. They started production on 6e the day 5e was released. That's why they never made much material for 5e; WotC wanted 10 years to perfect 6e, the first multiple of 3e, the chosen one, the bringer of ends, the walker between gaps, the social conflict system of gods, the - I'm ge...

Now I’m imagining a drunken house party with folks trying to make shapes with tangrams (I get that it was probably a coincidental inspiration, not an actual inspiration from observation). I don’t know if being drunk would inhibit or improve my ability to make shapes but it seems like something worth...

Isn't that just Dungeon Meshi, but an actual RPG? Ehhh, Dungeon Meshi isn't competitive cooking though. It's a fine setting for the type of game I was proposing, but if you consider the story like an adventure, their cooking is kind of just totally extraneous from an RPG standpoint. There's no need...

Well, it seems like merxa is either impossibly dumb or just trolling. I don't really care which. But some people expressed interest in this proposed system so lemme see if I can break it down. These terms are discussed with d20 terminology or references, so I'll presume it is intended as a home rule...

The Adventurer's Almanac wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 28, 2022 3:23 pm

Noooo! No balance! Only powergaming!

I should clarify. It’s important to know what is balanced so I can do the things that are strongest. Since nothing is every perfectly balanced.

Collecting ingredients is the kind of lizard brain fun I enjoy in video games and find abhorrent in table top games. A video game at least has some inventory management built in. If I have to make and maintain a filtered spreadsheet for a ttrpg then it can fuck right off. If the rest of the table ha...

My understanding is that RPG mechanics aren’t patented. Usually you can pick the random number generation methods that seem appropriate for the kind of distribution you desire. I am always super squeamish about glitzy new systems because almost invariably their inventors have zero fuckin clue how ma...

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Wed Mar 30, 2022 11:16 am

What the fuck? I know it’s a meme at this point that you are always wrong, but goddamn. Like every single thing. Dump your cache and cookies and start getting information elsewhere. It can only be an improvement.

For what it's worth, Ukraine banned the then third largest party after then 2014 coup. Ukraine's "democracy" chops have always been mostly fake. I think the situation is complicated for democracy when your neighboring country is actively interfering in elections and attempting to set up q...