Recent content by delericho

You put them away?

"The Complete Fighter's Handbook". It's a perfectly fine book, and we actually used the hell out of it back in the day, but it was the very first book I bought that wasn't a core rulebook, and it therefore opened a floodgate. There has been a huge amount of money wasted over the years, and it...

I neither expect nor demand anything more from publishers than that they adhere to the requirements of the licenses they use: if the license says they don't need to open anything and they choose not to open anything, fine. Because of that I give credit to publishers who go above and beyond -...

This was me, back in the day - I have hundreds (thousands?) of minis, mostly from GW, but can count on one hand the number of times I've actually played any of their games. It's probably worth noting that I finally kicked that habit 15 years ago, so it's not exactly a recent example.

Great show, and a great finale. Indeed. It's perhaps the worst thing about all these Star Wars shows as a collective: they have this massive metaplot that is all building up to the revelation that... Rise of the Skywalker happened.

The truth is I don't have dealbreakers so much as I'm looking for specific dealmakers - if they're absent then it doesn't matter what else is on offer. So it needs to be from a company with a track record of delivering quality, and of doing so promptly (I don't need the instant delivery @Morrus...

Ran 1 (SKT), and bits of another (CoS). Finished neither. We did complete "Lost Mine", but that's not one of the big ones.

Give them the treasure really early in the campaign, and base the campaign about the complications that result - the PCs are suddenly thrown into a tank of sharks and have to quickly learn how to bite back. Maybe. But no more than once.

The older I get, the more I think that's true of every revision to the game ever.

Not at all. Honestly, I'm more interested in arguing over whether this is or is not a new edition than the content itself. And, for the avoidance of doubt, I have no interest in debating that either.

The fans.

The group I'm currently with meet at work in the office. And, for good and sensible reasons, my employers have locked down access to a lot of the internet, and especially games. So anything that requires a connection to DDB, and anything that requires any sort of custom software to view it is...

Are they player characters? And how many XP is the poor person worth? :)

Inflation has been pretty wild these last few years! It's interesting that the cost of the core game has remained relatively static, adjusted for inflation, across all these years, even as production quality has gone up. And it's also good, despite the sticker shock of the new price, that WotC...

I'm pretty much only interested in adventures at this point. But in terms of the vote, the closest would be Locations, then Monsters, then Magic Items.