Recent content by SteveC

I think he was very grateful on the recent Knights of Last Call video. In my opinion, this shows that there is a market for a 5E-adjacent game that runs quickly, but still has a fair degree of crunch (combat in Nimble is fast, but still mechanical). I'd say this is a natural place for people who...

From reading the PDF, I think Nimble is really not a simulationist game. The armor rules are an example of where they work as a game, but may not match up with your ideas about how armor "should" work. I think that is a factor really to take into consideration about playing it. I like what I've...

You're correct, to be sure. It goes against two critical business strategies, though. Keeping multiple lines in print pits your books against themselves. Whenever anyone suggests that WotC could rerelease an earlier edition, that's all the talk. And the second is, there are fewer and fewer...

They were exactly the people I was thinking about. There was a lot of effort put into Project Black Flag. I know that I backed the initial Kickstarter. Now in 2026 I wonder, why bother? No shade on the Kobold Press people because they are some of the nicest and coolest people around but...

To me the biggest headscratch move was killing the OGL when, as a lot of folks pointed out, you could just make a gated gated community with D&D Beyond. I don't make a big salary, but I could have told them that. It seems definitely like that's where it's going, and that seems successful. WotC...

The world's greatest superhero RPG graphic made me think "oh, 7th edition Hero system?" But I jest. The new Mutants and Masterminds will likely be something I pick up as a PDF when it's all done. It will be interesting to see how they're evolving it further.

I think that you really have to stretch what "5E compatible" means for this to satisfy those requirements. I think that it isn't entirely alien to 5E, but it's not something you can just pick up and slot in with an existing campaign. But, with that said, I really like it. It is very much it's...

This is really interesting. We went right from "this isn't the strategy" to "the strategy is doing wonders." I think there were a lot of people talking about this for a long time who had some really unpleasant conversations about how wrong they were. Personally, I'd love to see WotC continue to...

I don't really want to get too deep in the weeds because this discussion has come up many times before. There's absolutely no consensus on what railroading is in RPGs. Some people don't mind it. I don't know who said this first, but I love it: "I'm all about for the railroad if it takes me to...

That's my point. I don't want to really harp on this, since I really want to encourage the show rather than yuck on it, but the audience for this show is going to be much larger than just people who've already played the game. So it will be new to all of them. And for me, I'd love to see how...

Ah, this is really interesting news! At the same time, it has the problem that a lot of game/book to show programs have: it's going to be in the world of BG3 but not take advantage of the plotting and story from the game. I have played BG3, and the plot is a really strong selling point in the...

This is an "I wish" situation. I backed the project but didn't buy beta access. I'm currently playing a 5E campaign with the group that I'd like to play this with and we may be finishing up Vecna about the time they finish Ember. It looks absolutely amazing.

Pretty much this. There's a thing that's going to happen. Will it? Don't know, the ending isn't determined. If the players do nothing, it's going to happen. Will they do something? What? Stop the event? Agree with it and get onboard? Or figure some point out that's inbetween? Don't know.

Okay. Thanks for your opinion.

In both cases, this was "an adventuring day." So the group got up in the morning, did as much as they could do, and then did a long rest. And the timing advanced. In the case of Abomination Vaults, I am running it with Foundry, so I have a plug-in ("Simple Calendar") that has a built-in...