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Great read and said way better than I did earlier. I have no doubt that Exandria will continue to be played by D&D players for decades, much like FR. I’m still holding out hope that we get a Shattered Teeth sourcebook in the next year or two.

Take the best part of the Realms, mix it with some 4e lore, and update it all to 2015. The Explorers Guide to Wildmount covers 4 unique kingdoms across a continent, has a great meta story that you can either engage with or ignore completely, has reasons for adventurers to exist and each location...

I’d argue that Exandria/ Wildmount is the bespoke 5e setting.

For me, what my character would do is only half of the question. The other half is, what will make the people I'm playing with enjoy the game more.

This makes a ton of sense, and I think explains what went on better than my theory about the move away from D&D IP. And what's really interesting here is that it comes at about the same time that they had the kickstarter and realized that they were going to be producing scripted shows. Because...

The first half of C2 didn't have that problem either. It started when they began moving away from a lot of WotC IP, which resulted in Matt having to do a lot more work to prep games, which resulted in fewer encounters per session, which resulted in the players needing to fill up the space with...

Reading this thread, I’ve finally got my excuse to get the new starter set, so that I can use it for my demonstration speech in my Communication class! Feels like all the pieces will be perfect house to show people how to play their first game of D&D!

Playing (yes as a PC, for the first time since before Covid!!!) in a Rime of the Frost Maiden Campaign. Plaing a PsiKnight from Baulder's Gate who's an investigator and who presents as a cross of Jodi Foster from Trud Detective Alaska, Dexter and Sherlock Holmes. Still early goings, took on...

Exactly. The important thing that I’m trying to get across is that high level play works best when the players are fully invested in what they are doing. Which is easier to do when they drive the action.

Perhaps a better way of stating it would be, 'be prepared to ceed control of the story to the players in Tier IV, if you don't already do so.' In Tier IV, the world reacts the the PCs more than the PCs react to the world.

I've run 3 campaigns in 5e that have gone above level 12, two of which made it to 20. I LOVE high level play in 5e. Here are my biggest tips, starting with a paradox. There are no rules for how to best approach high level 5e play. The DM will have to customize the experience for their...

There is certainly something magical about the chemestry of the main cast. I'm going to miss watching them play D&D together every week. My argument has always been that the success is about those 8 people playing D&D. Why D&D? Because it is such a robust platform for them to bounce off of...

Not sure that they did this intentionally, but this campaign is going to give them some amazing data, almost as if they were A/B testing. On the Reddits, there are constant debates over whether the audience for CR is there for the combat which is reliant on the D&D engine, the S class...

Def have a lot to like in each group, I just hope that Ep4 was an anomaly in terms of pacing. 3 encounters over 5 hours is waaaayyy to slow for my taste and my biggest issue with C3. And both the Seekers and schemers have lots of players who like to push scenes too long. Brendan had been doing...

Wonder if there is any consideration of pivoting this project to something else. Give what's been done to a developer to use as the foundation of a squad based game. Create 10-12 pre made encounters, then set up online rooms that pair 4 PCs against 1-2 DMs for a single battle in the encounter...