Shadowdark is ass, complete trash. 😂😂😂 It's a nepobaby.
@Texanrascal8 күн бұрын
I can’t recommend Shadowdark enough. It was one of the most played TTRPG at Green Dragon Fest Convention. It is especially great for people that are new to the hobby.
@monkeymule12869 күн бұрын
Basic fantasy, 8$, 95% of everything to be found in OSR space.
@sirguy66789 күн бұрын
It’s interesting there are so many different types and styles of RPGs - all bad clones of each other- it’s the group that makes the game fun- not the rules- most rule systems are just new accounting systems
@82fdny979 күн бұрын
It’s a cool expansion
@hawkname12349 күн бұрын
You're speaking in ignorance about the copyright strike on Jorphdan's channel. You should educate yourself about the facts of the situation (he flagrantly violated all copyright law, and the specific agreement he signed to receive an early PHB). In NO WORLD are you allowed to show page by page of a book with a high res overhead camera-let alone an unpublished one!! That is INSANE. It could destroy the market for their product, which hundreds of people worked thousands of hours on. There is a culture among the TTRPG KZfaqr community of spreading misinformation about WotC for clicks and clout. In general, TTRPG KZfaqrs have proven themselves to be profoundly dishonest and immoral in spreading lies and spreading fear, anger and hate for profit (just like populist demagogues always have). You are early in your KZfaq journey. You have the opportunity to do the research and learn the (completely available) facts behind every "scandal" the KZfaq influencers fabricate and hype up. You can decide to stand up to liars and bullies. You can decide to do the right thing, even if it is unpopular and unprofitable. It's up to you.
@VictorJulioHurtado9 күн бұрын
Exactly. The whole PHB2024 fiasco can be summed by this: They were asked to make content about the book and they made the book the content instead.
@adamglenen7349 күн бұрын
Question. How does boot taste?
@Texanrascal8 күн бұрын
Actually Jorphdan did it right. That is why the strike was removed. It was a third party law firm hired by WOTC to check for violations that filed the strike. Once it was reviewed WOTC had the strike removed.
@zednumar69179 күн бұрын
Shadowdark is the most well-designed and well-organized RPG I have ever seen. It all fits neatly together. You don't need to flip through the book searching for rules. There is no bloat, and all of the rules are clear and simple.
@spamfilter3210 күн бұрын
Hasbro is an evil company. As much as I would love a sequel for BG3, I completely understand Larian moving on and wanting to do something that is their own original IP.
@hawkname12349 күн бұрын
Hasbro isn't a particularly evil company. It's a normal company, operating under our system of immoral capitalism. But it's probably average to above average in morality. It's not an oil company or a tobacco company, or a strip mining company or a fraudulent herbal supplements company or anything like that.
@chadstowell3711 күн бұрын
Choose your Class .... Stay in your Lane. Love it.
@michaelmullenfiddler11 күн бұрын
Regarding converting between systems (especially any or all that are the very basic "d20, roll high, level based, armor class/difficulty class, hit points" etc, not only is that kind of conversion pretty easy, but also, if you google it, alot of people have put "conversion guides" from one specific d20 system to another online. When converting between d20 and one of the other dice systems (roll under, percentile, or dice pool, etc) then you probably need to have a strong knowledge of both systems. But even then, if I ever run the Warhammer classic Enemy Within, it won't be with Warhammer. Any one of the many d20/DnD variants could work, with all the many published monsters, and so on. You are right, in any case: converting between systems is probably not an issue
@phaedruslive11 күн бұрын
So far, I haven't found a VTT that really works for me. Maybe something that has little to no actual imagery and a basic two color map and colored dots for enemies could work, but there's simply too much visual detail and automation to justify a game based in imagination, for me at least.
@tablesaltgames5 күн бұрын
@@phaedruslive I’ve used art programs like photoshop as a VTT. It takes some prep before hand though.
@PatrioticGestalt11 күн бұрын
I should eat and finish my sandwich during combat. 😅
@tablesaltgames5 күн бұрын
@@PatrioticGestalt it’s like “wait don’t attack me while i heal myself” 😂
@DimitriosDenton12 күн бұрын
Look at the muscularity!
@vegasveteran630823 күн бұрын
HAHAHAHA
@robertpascuttini714424 күн бұрын
I hate that healing potion bonus action. So, you can attack, then drink a healing potion in melee combat. Makes no sense.
@SavageBruski25 күн бұрын
Having played 40k since 3rd ed, I'm glad to see more shifting from that to Agnostic games like OPR. Between rising costs, worse-than-ever-rule-creep and the constant need to keep up with a changing META, I think this was inevitable.
@jubeibob26 күн бұрын
any idea how they would these scale with imperial guard/ astra militarium size minis? before/after them on a 25mm base?? awesome video!!
@Daiqatana28 күн бұрын
The future of DnD is probably mobile games. If this push fails, maybe there'll be a 7th ed one day.
@Kepora129 күн бұрын
Hobbies are for *ANYONE,* not *EVERYONE.*
@WickedTheReaper29 күн бұрын
D&D is rather grim in most aspects. How most of us started it was bloody and dark. As editions go on, it's become very light hearted because times?
@critzibletherainbowknight322Ай бұрын
Foottraffic is the lifeblood of a store. If they have a physical location it will get you in to buy more products then what you went in for. As for just spending money. As a gamer I perfer physical, they cant stop supporting or edit my purchase after I purchase it. It also is tangible and lets me interact with it. As for preorders, most are not required to give you money should they not deliver. Especially direct to market from large corporations. So yes wait for reviews should thier be issues. Its a wise move. As for the new edition and WTOC im gonna so no thanks. I can get the older stuff amd retroclones all day every day. These past few months and year has shown how horrible WTOC and Hasbro are as a company and I honestly dont wanna give them money directly.
@DY__599Ай бұрын
I think if they're gonna lean into the renaming of "races" to "species" they should go the full way and make half-elves and half-orcs sterile, in the same way that the hybrid offspring of two species are in real life (e.g., mules). I always kinda thought that it would be a good canon reason as to why there are only ever "half-elves" rather than quarter-elves, etc. I also think it would make half-races really quite sad, so don't know. Just thought it was an interesting caveat to the whole change to the terminology.
@carreroarts9735Ай бұрын
It's gamers fault.... They giving them money and each edition got worse as a result .
@Tr33ba1tАй бұрын
I'm glad someone else feels the same way I do about 4E. My first "real" DnD campaign was 4E (we never finished it), and I thought it was really fun. I miss my shardmind that was basically Ghost Rider
@Tr33ba1tАй бұрын
I think that, generally, when a company makes a big deal out of something like changing "race" to "species" it is a canary in the coal mine, so to speak. People who get super hung up on that in particular are missing the forest for the trees at best, and have malicious reasons for it at worst; if it is a sign of bad things to come, then you have/will have way more important quality issues to critique (as you do in this video, for instance)
@davidrobertson5996Ай бұрын
Good post, just subbed. Interested to watch some of your wargaming stuff too. As a DnD player/GM since 2nd edition, I have to say that 3rd and 4th edition had a lot to recommend them. My overall favourite has to be 3/3.5. Great artwork, darker than 5e. Since the whole OGL debacle, I'm not giving Wizards/Hasbro any more of my money, and have been delving instead into third party content and OSR resources like Basic Fantasy RPG/Old School Essentials and Swords and Wizardry. That said, play what gives you happiness. One thought I had that I thought you might mention was them pushing towards playing on VTT as opposed to sitting round a table. I prefer the table to online, but think WotC is pushing VTT items as a sweetener for pre-orders.
@matthaeusprime6343Ай бұрын
Drinking a potion is an action and always will be in my games. Some of these little changes are the worst.
@atray5519Ай бұрын
Is your business still open? Seeing mixed reviews on your shop being closed- just wondering if your website still accepts orders
@tablesaltgamesАй бұрын
@@atray5519 yes, my tee springs store is still active.
@Dreamfox-df6bgАй бұрын
If I got it right, the books come out months apart, so what do you get if you get it a little earlier? The players can go through the Players Handbook, while the GM has to wait for his books? What are you going to do? Have your DM play it with you without him having the Dungeon Master's Guide? Or more importantly, without the Monster Manual? I mean sure, I have seen it done in earlier editions and other TTRPG's and it can be done, but it can be hard and often isn't much fun for the DM. And I don't think you will attract many new people being the DM for the new edition. At least not until the other books are out. So is pre-ordering really that important? Especially if you add the possible buyer's remorse to it?
@robertthompson3077Ай бұрын
4th ed also ended 3rd party content. which when WoTC only put out 3 or 4 books a year made it a dead game. No real innovations or 3rd party goodness to carry WoTC's plain vanilla goo
@AvolochАй бұрын
i will buy dolmenwood or shadowdark
@Tora58Ай бұрын
If you like 4th edition, you should check out Horde Wars: Basic. It plays like 4e, but manages to be speed up combat significantly. It's on DTRPG.
@frostfiredirewolf8517Ай бұрын
lol. I'm already working on a system similar to weapon mastery for my home brew of 5e
@SlyBlueDemonАй бұрын
Can't wait for the combat that takes forever already to take even longer when players are now deciding if they want to spend heroic inspiration to reroll stuff.
@MalakyoftheOSRАй бұрын
Like the video, you earned a sub today. Another channel I like for his solo gaming is Scutiffer_Mike. He has some videos where he plays Old School Essentials that are excellent. "Toning down the essence of D&D." I think you nailed it with the art in the new books.
@Rick-tt5hiАй бұрын
I am just going to stick with DC 20 and other games. :)
@TchHryАй бұрын
Give Pathfinder 1 or 2 a shot, they've been shockingly good and I've played since 2nd ed.
@tablesaltgamesАй бұрын
@@TchHry I’ve always given PF the side eye. I’ve never been one for large rule books. Have you tried Dragonbane?
@TchHryАй бұрын
@@tablesaltgames Haven't even heard about it, I'll search your channel for any vids on it.
@shenotskiАй бұрын
WOTC wants D&D to a be a lifestyle brand not something for their core audience. Hence why they immediately fucked up things with the boon that was BG3.
@ChrisMoneymakerDHRGАй бұрын
Sounds like a whole lot more power creep, for already over powered characters.
@tablesaltgamesАй бұрын
@@ChrisMoneymakerDHRG Magic the Gathering business tactics 😂
@ChrisMoneymakerDHRGАй бұрын
A race to the bottom where the potential costumer base is at it’s widest.
@gavinrunebladeАй бұрын
Weapon mastery was also a part of BECMI back in the '80s. More complex back then, with scaling properties and traits, different bonuses vs different enemies, etc. But it is something that's been part of D&D for decades.
@MarekDohojda29 күн бұрын
Was about to say same thing. I remember those little books back in the 2nd edition. I am actually always been a huge fan of SOME weapon options, just not too much. My biggest beef with Pathfinder is too much stuff, I like 5e simplicity, while I do want SOME weapon additions, I want it to be some not overwhelming.
@gavinruneblade29 күн бұрын
@@MarekDohojda Yes, that was a problem with Weapon Mastery in Basic D&D, it got complex. Like, pulling out my Rules Cyclopedia, at Master tier a shortsword gave you a 3 point bonus to AC vs 4 melee attacks, and could deflect 3 attacks per turn of any kind, with a chance to disarm an enemy in melee. That's rather a lot to track, and easy to forget the difference between melee vs range. Too complex. Cool and makes every weapon dynamic and different, but it wasn't simple, that's for sure.
@MarekDohojda28 күн бұрын
@@gavinruneblade yep. I think sometimes having a complex rules can be fun, but for a whole campaign? Too much to keep track off. It's a hard balance for sure.
@CooperAATEАй бұрын
lol you think it's a sixth edition.
@tablesaltgamesАй бұрын
@@CooperAATE yes, I refer to it as 6e because it’s a full release with fundamental changes/updates.
@paulscott1792Ай бұрын
Wait is this so lazy you are commenting on a commentary
@tablesaltgamesАй бұрын
@@paulscott1792 I’m just a gamer doing what we do best… complain about change 😂