Recent content by SteveC

I'd say these are the best two starter sets out there. You can pickup "Press Start" for free! And the Beginner's Box is the gold standard, especially on Foundry.

In Pathfinder Society games I play, one of the other players is a bard. They typically do "Inspire Courage" (the old name), which adds a +1 bonus to attacks and damage. They bought a big foam finger that they wear and held up when the buff is active, and someone makes an attack. It really works.

I had a friend who ran a game for some smart people who could not catch on. For one guy (and I'm not making this up), he drew a big D20 on a paper and put a "5" in it. Then he drew a D8 and put a "3" in it. He told him. "Hold the D20 in one hand, the D8 in the other. On your turn, roll the D20...

Great news! Andy wrote some great stuff. This is a positive development I'd say.

Thanks for the info on Hero. The Hero System sourcebooks are traditionally some of the best products for a genre or type of play out there, regardless of rules. I hadn't heard of this one at all.

I know Mike has been around the forums a bunch lately, so I just wanted to say "Bravo!" It will be interesting to see what comes of this.

You either hate 4E or I have to honestly ask what are you spending time on, here? And your argument is 100% straw man: no one is saying 4E is the best selling edition ever, only that the core books sold more than previous editions. I'm 100% sure 5E has sold a ton more because the PHB was in the...

That's an excellent point. What they could do at zero effort was to make it known that 4E could be used in the same manner as OSR games. There's no OGL for 1E and 2E but you see a ton of games using that material.

I think this is an astute observation. There are a lot of people who don't like 4E, so you would think there wouldn't be much if any interest in an OGL version. So what's the holdup? It's not like WotC would be creating completion, would they? If that's the case, why are we getting 5E 2024 in...

This just gets a sigh out of me. On the one hand, we don't have the numbers, on the other hand, we know enough to call something blatantly false. This is what you want to be true. And that's okay with me (since I know a lot of people who hated 4E with the intensity of 10000 suns). We don't know...

100% this. By the time you're late in the edition, sales are way down. That's why you're doing a new edition. Nothing ever sells like the core three books. So the new edition will very likely sell more than ever before. The key difference, I suppose, is how will it be doing 5 years from now? If...

It has been a long time, but remember that the Slayer class (from the books near the end of the line) has a Dexertity option. So it did happen, just late

There were definitely better and worse choices for feats and powers. And some of the qualities were changed by errata. One character I had was a Drow Thief who had the Duelist Prowess powers. It initially didn't have the weapon keyword, which would have made it useless. It was updated to include...

I get that you believe that, but if I have a choice between a developer who was there across multiple editions, and you, I guess I know who I will believe. I know what Ben Riggs said. At the same time, he doesn't have access to the full WotC's sales. No one who's not internal does. So we have...

Now you're making me go back in memory, so from what I remember, you had two classes. One of them was your Role, straight out of 4E, but the other was the character class. This meant you could have a character who was a fighter-controller, for instance. The presentation is an issue for me, but...