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GP: Is Eris true? M2: Everything is true. GP: Even false things? M2: Even false things are true. GP: How can that be? M2: I don't know man, I didn't do it. —The Principia Discordia

My experience can be clouded by having run "The Show Must Go On", the first part of the Extinction Curse AP. There, 1st level PCs are expected to deal with 3 low, 7 moderate, and 1 severe encounters (plus assorted roleplay encounters that give some bonus XP without being qualified as an...

Delaying something to level 4 feels like a long time, particularly when you're working your way through the early levels where you don't really have anything in your back pocket to make up for it either. Oh, it totally varies a lot by class, and even by subclass. For example, my elemental...

Laws can be broken, and a lot of the time people can get away with doing so.

PF2 definitely has resource costs over the course of the day, notably in the form of spell slots. At least in the pre-revised version, focus spells (the PF2 version of encounter powers) often aren't particularly combat viable, or at best serve a support function. And being able to fully heal in...

I'd say that 5e has a number of elements that are superficially similar to 4e but when you look closer you'll see that they really don't do the same thing. Some examples: Proficiency bonus is kind of similar to scaling everything by level/2 like you did in 4e, except half as big. Except that...

Int-based arcane magic is about finding the cheat codes of reality. Cha-based is telling the laws of physics to sit down and shut up.

I'm pretty sure that's an incorrect version of how the spell is supposed to work. If you get "hit" twice by the bolt, you don't take double damage. Instead, you need to succeed on two saves to take half damage (basically, disadvantage).

But in that particular case, I can't play the game – only a limited version of it without mages.

There's at least one case where a prominent Harper got confronted by other leaders within the organization, which resulted in him telling them to get WAY off his back and also quitting and starting his own organization. However, since that Harper was Khelben "I'm a 27th level wizard and my wife...

In some cases, I've seen entire subsystems relegated to sourcebooks. The first one that comes to mind is the 4th edition of the Swedish game Eon, where there is no magic system or system for martial techniques, because those are in later sourcebooks (published about 5 years later). You also have...

[Cetacean needed]

Civilization, Shmivilization. Give me that Alpha Centauri goodness, dammit! Deirdre needs her mindworms!

Perhaps for those products sold through book stores, but my understanding was that that channel was primarily for fiction. The actual games were sold more through hobby stores, which do not have the ability to return/destroy product for refunds.

My understanding is that there were three major things that made TSR nonviable. Overextension. They were publishing dozens of game products per month across multiple semi-independent product lines. I mean, 25 books for the Birthright setting alone in two years (sure, many were just 32-page...

I believe that's the canonical explanation for the difference regarding missile weapons in 1e. And this carried over to spells because "otherwise it would be broken, yo" (though I think Gygax used slightly different phrasing).

That said, I see it more as a way of getting ability scores out of the way, and opening classes to more interpretations. Magic power, in particular, seems kinda dumb to have connected to Intelligence given how often powerful mages are outwitted by cunning rogues in fiction.

For me personally, a video can be fine as a tutorial. But when looking for specifics (e.g. "How do I give a token a light source?"), nothing beats text.