Recent content by SteveC

I had a similar situation. I was running at about the two-hour mark and it seemed like it was just too much. I talked with my players, and they were okay with me switching to re-rolling Icons after a long rest. It worked for us.

You are one of the people I interact with a fair bit here, so I think I can be confident you will like it, even if there will be some things not to your taste. If I'm wrong and you end up coming to a Con I go to, there will be a beer or suitable beverage bought by me to dull some of the pain.

To answer a question about "is this game similar to D&D" I will definitely say yes. It is for me, but I think the real answer depends on what you think the core of D&D is. You still have: The same classic ability scores with the same formula for bonuses from 3E on. The core classes. You have...

The Paladin doesn't look that different. It's still a very basic class.

I have the playtest in front of me. It's not final (of course) but if you have any questions about "did this get changed?" I'll try and answer them.

A few years back, Rob and Jonathan came to Gamehole Con and ran 13th Age. I played in both of their games and both were amazingly fun to talk to during the game. Rob in particular taught me a lot about the game and its intent, but he was also enthusiastic in a way that the best people in our...

This is another situation where, now that the story is out there, the truth will out. If you remember back to when the OGL story dropped, we had people who said it wasn't true and were pretty incredulous about it. But once the question was out there, it got out into general discussion, and we...

First, I will give a big thumbs up to War of the Burning Sky. I ran it back during the 4E days, but I really like the underlying plot and premise of the adventure. My players had a great time and the game only stopped due to the group breaking due to moves from players. Outside of that, it...

This is my shocked face. I know this is not a very popular assessment, but whether he wanted the change or not, if you're the CEO, things that your company does are your fault.

I am so excited! Both for the updates and for the fact that my group is doing session 0 of our test game this Thursday.

Well, I am officially a backer and in for the reduced book cost. Thanks for the reminder that it launched!

My understanding (and this is 10-year-old information so it has drifted through the vicissitudes of time) but during the D&D Next playtest, there was a designer who didn't like the Warlord class. So it didn't get in. Since then there has been a tremendous emphasis on not adding any new...

You make a really good point. As of now, we don't know what will happen. And most of the time when that's the case, we all go to what has (in our opinion) already happened and assume it will keep going. But we don't know. I'm someone who sometimes posts negative stuff here, but I see this as an...

My understanding is that those products are all OGL. And the OGL could (really does) have problems where you use the core content and then make all of your product closed. If that's the same, I think that will be against the CC licensing intent severely. Maybe nothing will change with a...

I want to shift to the earth where 4E was released via OGL. The gaming industry would likely (note the likely part) be very different in that case.