Recent content by Elvish Lore

I love his enthusiasm but I'm not sure that's quite enough for me. Our DM bought the Dungeon Coach's (very expensive) pdf of 5e hacks and house rules a couple years back and there were a lot of interesting ideas in there but in practice, at the gaming table, quite a few of them were game...

I think them including optional rules only makes the game more accessible for more people. Glad to see them putting in other ways to play the game and I don't think it means they're taking a step back from their original intentions. I agree that 'optimizers' left to their own devices will turn...

See, my thing is if you want to solve the "DM crisis" (I don't think there is one really, most people are just lazy), combine the PHB and the DMG into one book and about 1000% more people will actually at least skim if not read the DM part of the book. Don't put in another hurdle for folks...

You’re both in a tavern! …that’s on fire. …from the Dragon. Roll initiative.

Any possibility of deleting that misinformation post? It’s the sort of crap that’s caused the pandemic to perpetuate.

Erik Mona sounds like a real jerk. Wow.

Surprised no has mentioned shmeppy.com which is a super barebones mapper. If you're just used to showing up to your face to face games with blank grid paper and some minis, you might like it. I think Roll20 is a phenomenal tool... but it's way too much for me and tempts me to spending huge...

Having read the through the Wildemount guide, I'm a huge fan and have started a campaign. To be clear, I'm not at all a Critter... I've listened to 10 minutes of one Crit Role ep. I think Wildemount does a great job of feeling like a classic D&D setting but turns a lot of traditional tropes...

Thanks everybody for your excellent replies. Sounds like I should purchase this!

I run a Middle-earth adjacent 5e campaign. There's plenty of magic, so it's not nearly as low-fantasy as ME, but it's got a fairly grounded tone even with 5e as the engine. But to be sure, it's heroic fantasy and not horror. My question: will I be able to mine 5e's Curse of Strahd sourcebook...

I don't care how "foundational" Frank's work is to the hobby, given his alleged sexually harassing behavior towards former Paizo project coordinator Jessica Price (which she documented on Twitter) and his awful threats to destroy Dragonsfoot (which, they too documented), I won't be supporting...

I'm not super knowledgable about what there is out there for 5e. I know I love this edition and a 2 year campaign I ran of it went incredibly well. But now I've got a home-brew setting in mind that involves lots of sci-fantasy ideas. Not fantasy space-opera but a fantasy world with a...

Absolutely. It's why they veered into minis back in the day after starting with D&D 3.0 products. I can't fault PP at all -- I think they developed a big, beautiful rpg with the new IK but even if it had been a lot more popular, PP's ROI is far, far greater with minis.

For me, I'm kind of shocked how terrible the Iron Kingdoms is doing on this chart. I know Roll20 isn't representative of the entire rpg community at all but it's not an entirely invalid look at what's popular. Given how little support the game is given by the publisher nowadays, I guess IK has...

I live in Los Angeles and I completely agree. Holding it anywhere outside of the midwest would be cost prohibitive to a lot of people -- there's a reason Gen Con So Cal died a quick death: it was just too expensive for most people to fly out here. I've no idea how if Chicago's hotel space is...