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The books I have: Player's Handbook Dungeon Master's Guide Monster Manual Guide to Monsters Guide to Everything Tome of Foes Yawning Portal Dungeon of the Mad Mage Candlekeep Mysteries I didn't like Yawning Portal or Mad Mage and I'll admit I haven't read one word of Candlekeep despite owning...

This is one reason why I like something Iserith came up with several years ago. His idea for Inspiration was that the players claim Inspiration rather than the DM awarding it. The player could claim Inspiration when a player did something in accordance with his Bond/Ideal/Flaw but only once per...

I really like the movie. Saw it twice in the theater, which is one more time than I was in a theater in 2022. It's still, disappointingly, a huge flop. I saw the reviews and thought it would do well and hit $300-400 million globally, but I doubt even good numbers on streaming can save this...

The "more interesting" is also why I largely (though not entirely) like to run published adventures. As a DM I am always entertained seeing how all of us react to an adventure written by someone else.

Bruce Heard wrote GAZ10. Bruce Heard loves Mystara. Mystara fans love Bruce Heard. Despite this, I'm not aware of any fan content anywhere on Pandius that uses even one bit of the negative content there. There's still silliness in fan-content Mystara but fans basically act like the bad parts of...

You're still wrong on at least 4 points (1, 2, 3, 8). Point 8 being wrong isn't even one that can be contested as one of differing opinion. Just based on the text of GAZ10, it's obviously wrong.

I think it stands a good chance if it digs into fantasy/D&D stuff and doesn't try too much to be a Marvel clone. I suspect it will be too much of a Marvel clone, but it could surprise me!

A lot of people don't realize this. Europeans actually saw themselves represented in an RPG outside of just being "generic American idea of vaguely medieval stuff". Growing up in Montana, I had a Native American friend who was thrilled he was represented in Mystara by the Atruaghin Clans.

As an owner of GAZ10 and purchaser of it way back in 1988 I loved the ridiculousness of the book. I really liked Thar's Manual of Conduct. I don't use it when I run Mystara because of some of the stuff mentioned in the petition. But, wow, have you got stuff wrong. The first three examples are...

Yes on: Brom art, Environmental collapse, No gods, No planar travel, Sword & Sandal, Different core races. My top 2 are also the two most voted elements. If it doesn't have environmental collapse and it's not sword & sandal then it's not Dark Sun. The other things I labeled "essential" I could...

This is my take, as well. Dark Sun is straight-up woke before that was even a thing in the mind of most of the public. A setting showing slavery and uncontrolled climate change as bad isn't something Hasbro can do.

I am a linguist by trade (US Navy Arabic linguist). You will never, ever hear me gainsay the elite status of good translation - whether that's in real life or a fantasy game. ALL HAIL Comprehend Languages!!

I own zero Pathfinder items from Paizo and I'm very happy with the Paizo Pathfinder Humble Bundle. I also bought the Kobold Press bundle. It's a mixed bag with all sorts of stuff in it. Something is likely interesting. I primarily bought it for the Midgard stuff as it included things I didn't...

Ordered! The page has a link to a YouTube review and it really does a good job selling the adventure simply by pointing out what's in the book. "This encounter is good because...". Clear layout. Great room design. I stopped watching the review after the first adventure was described and...

The only one carrying the Star Wars torch in 1991 was WEG with their good and successful d6 SW RPG. But if "most successful" is an RPG then that's pretty close to dormant.