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KS can suck a dick lately, but I had to back this one. I missed the first run and ended up having to buy the product at retail. It was one of the few cases where I've had to pay far more than the KS, but these minis are amazing and it was still cost effective. The pictures really don't do them...

I don't run published adventures, but I do enjoy collecting them and I read through some of them to spark my own imagination and steal an idea here and there. That said, Descent requires A LOT of DM intervention to work. Not only is the whole premise questionable, the players get super...

Fuck me, I was just about to buy a copy of Dungeon World to flip through because it's gotten such great reviews and I've seen several D&D YouTube channels praise it. As I was checking out, I noticed the author -- Adam Koebel. Jesus Christ, I couldn't get that shit out of my cart fast enough. I...

Yep. I don't have it in me to poopsock loot hunt games, but Grim Dawn is really underrated. I only played it for about 150 hours but I enjoyed every bit of it.

I can't speak to anything beyond books because that's 99% of the projects I back. Furthermore, in nearly every project I've backed, shipping wasn't part of the campaign. There were posted estimates, but whatever the shipping ended up being, it's charged much later, after your pledge is...

Yep. I back anywhere between 2-5 projects a month and I'm probably going to stop completely for many of the same reasons. The shipping profit padding angle is just one of the many things rubbing me the wrong way. If some random guy from Ebay can mail me a hardback book from 3,000 miles away...

I must be wired completely differently, because I have NEVER done this. I've played and finished every Iso-RPG there is and always finished the entire game with the first character I made. For better or worse, I stuck with it. My D&D game just finished and I'm at character creation for WoTR...

That you received at level 14. That's close to the end for most campaigns. Even if you played it out to the max level, having flight in tier III play is almost a given. It's something I would expect at that point. And no, I'm not missing your point. I don't play with people that disrespect...

At level 14, flight is near the bottom of the list of things that make my DM life hard so it doesn't surprise me at all that it didn't cause any problems at your table.

I Kick a lot of projects, but I just don't have any use for this one. Still, good luck to him.

Flying PCs is one of those things that doesn't sound too terrible in theory to DMs (or players), but in practice, it can be a huge pain in the ass. Certainly you can account for flying, but once it's introduced, you ALWAYS have to account for it. Flight tends to steal some level of dynamic play...

Yep. I encountered one of the campaign-ending failure scenarios that I wasn't even aware existed after I had invested something like 60 hours. There wasn't any way to recover it, I had to start over. I said fuck that and downloaded a memory hack so I could turn back the world clock in-game.

I'm incredibly excited about this game. My Fantasy Grounds D&D game is tomorrow night and I know I'm going to be counting the minutes until we're done so I can properly dive in to this. I love my tabletop game, but Iso-RPGs do it for me differently (particularly the best-in-class ones) and I've...

I absolutey loved the first game, but I haven't touched any of the testing opportunities. In fact, I haven't even read much about the story because I want the experience to be as pure as possible. Without spoilers, how does your limited experience with the sequel rate in comparison to the...

The other two pieces of really important advice I can give you for DMs with minimal experience is: 1. Do NOT allow players to play use content from 3rd party sources. You're not going to have the experience to recognize the problems it can create. Classes, sub-classes, spells, feats, etc from...

Tasha's DEFINITELY has some player options that are incredibly powerful relative to content from earlier books like the PHB. The custom lineage optional rule is complete retardation and banned at my table. It's a min/max power gamers wet dream. If you allow that, all other races (except some of...

I was a day 1 purchaser of the 1st game and went through all of that crap so I'm a bit apprehensive about the sequel though I'm still going to buy it too on launch day. Hopefully, they've learned from the mistakes that were made in the original game because it did eventually evolve in to the...

I've been using the Exhaustion penalty on knockdown for over a year. It can spiral out of control if the players are careless, it's supposed to. That's one of the primary reasons it exists and it's worked very well for me. There is a bit of an adjustment period for players that are used to not...

I absolutely hate this too. I try to address it by making lengthy downtime activities so attractive that players really want to spend several abstract months between adventures to work on side-projects. For groups that enjoy it, I also enforce a rule that leveling requires (progressively more...

It's a bit tempting since the game is so infrequent. I'll think it over and get back to you. If I do decide to give it a shot, I'd definitely make the drive. I'd never put you and the group in the incredibly awkward position to try and make a remote player work in a tabletop situation.

You're only about 2 hours from me.

Though I obviously prefer newer stuff, there are a lot of grognards that feel exactly the same way you do. OSR (old-school rules) has a pretty large and faithful fan-base.

I started playing with 1st edition, but I quickly moved to 2nd and that's really where I cut my teeth. Despite the massive nostalgia I have for 2e, it (and definitely 1e) are objectively inferior systems to everything that came after it; including the trainwreck of 4e. 3/3.5 was golden age of...

I can agree with you that the itemization was not great. Also, I really dislike magic item vendors, especially those with magic items as powerful as the items that were available to be purchased. I did like what they were trying to do with the faction system and integrating it with crafting...

I haven't bothered to follow this debacle for several reasons: 1. I don't play any Blizzard games 2. Even if some of the stories of misconduct are true, the years of women abusing the system to embellish stories, or to outright lie.. drained me of all the fucks I had to give. 3. I'm glad to see...

Looks interesting. Reading lore/story arcs for well-conceptualized content is fun. I really wish I could do the same, but I have people that play in my campaign that read this thread. It can be super frustrating having to keep all the cool shit you know/have planned, to yourself.

4e is a breeze compared to 3/3.5. Over the last 6 months I've been on a buying-spree of physical copies of old material to flesh out my collection and to replace stuff that I've lost, given away, or had stolen over the years and I've found that only incredibly rare print runs or copies of the...

This is a fantastic game for the amount of resources and number of people it had devoted to it. To those of you who don't seem to understand why there's so much seemingly dead-end content -- it has a purpose. Those 'dead-ends' are little tech demos and love letters to fans/potential...

Did our paths ever cross in EQ? My primary character's name in EQ is my FoH forum name (before my BotB title displaced my surname). I swear I remember interacting with some little faggoty, autistic Monk (I think?) by the name of Secrets, but I can't be sure. What servers did you play on? Oh...

I back nearly everything that KP publishes for D&D and I'm excited for players with this one. Hopefully, they keep the power levels in check so the new options don't immediately make everything else obsolete. Just launched.

I just finished this earlier today and felt it was a good game. It's extremely obvious that it's a low-budget game, but I was legitimately impressed with what they were able to accomplish with such a small team and very little money to work with. The mechanics of the game are fantastic and...

Something interesting about mapping on VTTs is the recent implementation of lighting/line of sight and how punishing those features are going to be until players adapt. I know for a fact that, in many cases, lighting in dark areas and LoS gets hand waved, forgotten, or have their impact...

I don't think I can disagree with you.

For me, the thought of running combat without a map sounds terrible. Even in the late 80s when I started playing, we'd draw out the area on graph paper or on a dry erase board. I've never played in or run a game without maps, but I do see the possible benefits of using theater of the mind. With...

Super valuable site, but it's not even a fraction of a fraction of what The Trove is/was. To answer the question -- No, there's no replacement, but the Trove 'staff' say they're still working to get back up and running. There's a lot of rumors swirling about what happened, but I wouldn't put in...

A couple other people in their comment section also mentioned the similarties, but the Dungeon Dudes (creators) response to it was -- "there's nothing to it, any similarities are purely coincidental." Then, earlier today, they responded to my posts stating they have previously reached out to GW...

I don't even like GW (in fact, I think they're pretty scummy), but I emailed their legal department about the KS. I feel like a snitch, but this is just too blatant a theft of IP with absolutely no credit given to the source material. Had they done just the bare minimum and made a highly...

Eh...I didn't know any of that. Looks like I'll be roasting them and then withdrawing my pledge. I'd like to think that these guys played the PC game and got inspired to do a 5e re-skin, but the similarities are too ridiculous. I get cool ideas from existing IP all the time and sometimes change...

I got exposed to him through his node series way back and just watched his whole 'quit' video, but I'm not sure why because I haven't played BDO in years. A few months ago, I did log ib once to preserve my account, but I didn't actually do anything. Now that I think about it, I suspect I...

I've honestly never understood why WoTC ever bothered to listen to the competitive crew because spikes don't buy cards. With each set release they'll either trade with casuals or use store credit to pick up what they need. Spending money is a last resort and even then it's on singles, not...