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No ability scores? Big no thank you, thanks. This has drifted too far away from my comfort zone. I'm old enough that I am happily settled in my preferences and those largely hit their limits with D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder 1.

Congratulations on your planar aspect/avatar being featured on the cover of "Turn of Fortune's Wheel". I do hope they did not nerf your exemplary Lothiness in the adventure.

That's the maddening part of their sloth. The work has already been done and done quite lavishly, in fact. All they would have to do is update the number crunching and some tertiary and quaternary elements of various planes of existence and their inhabitants to merge smoothly with the latest...

Hmm, yes and no. It's tough to choose between two options when you are only presented with one of them for review. I believe if more people today were exposed to and had direct knowledge of the lore and the richness of what was developed for AD&D and 2E, a sizeable percentage of current players...

That only works if the masses genuinely enjoy the fast-food/food truck dishes they are offering. In this case, nostalgia is appropriate as the lore of AD&D and 2E hugely outclasses what they are doing today. I want a five-course meal, not roach coach grab 'n' go mediocrity.

And the pre-order for hardcopy sets begins when?

Which of these possibilities might it be? a) When your enemy is blind to the fact that they are doing something self-destructive or that will present you with an opportunity to strike at them, do not interfere. b) You need time to muster resources to deal with the problem, so you bide your time...

A species may have several races/breeds/subspecies, extant or extinct, which qualify as members of said species. I had no problem--still don't, to be honest--with the term race being used as a synonym for species by Tolkien because the orcs were altered and corrupted elves and all (humans...

Oh, Rule #2 made a regular appearance at my table back in the day. Players: Well, we can do that because our characters are speshullllll. Me: We're all special in our own minds, NPCs included.

Yes, really. I'm largely a grognard, a legacy content-liker in all its various manifestations. If I enjoyed the original form of ABcdEF, then the reimagining and remaking of it into AbCdeF--updated for a new generation!--has all the appeal of fingernails on a chalkboard.

Praise day at even, a wife when dead, a weapon when tried, a maid when married, ice when ’tis crossed, and ale when ’tis drunk.----Havamal The original made such a powerful impression that I think caution is due, lest we find the "updated and improved" version more honestly described as...

Two steps forward, five steps backwards.

Two steps forward, five steps backwards.

How do your deities regard and interact with the denizens of the Outer Planes, the planes of belief to which souls and spirits travel after shuffling off their mortal coil? Is the relationship between them congenial, neutral, or antagonistic?

"Believable" adventures must be cut from a consistent cloth and they must not strain my credulity. The former mandates maintaining verisimilitude via internal consistency and the latter means placing low to low-medium limits on the fantastical elements of the campaign. The milieu of "A Song of...

Perhaps because I'm an adult and my tastes have evolved a bit since my middle-school days of playing AD&D--less credulous, more critical. Even "back in the day" I found anachronisms jarring and distasteful, albeit less so than I do now. What would earn my money? Peter Jackson's LotR trilogy...

Hmmm, I may have to look into this. Thank you for the heads-up.

Sounds utterly craptastic. Piss on accessibility for the masses, I want something of substance with a solid dose of quasi-historical verisimilitude. Make it Bronze Age, Iron Age, Dark Age, or Medieval Period as you please, but keep the Marvel-esque garbage out of D&D.

Your plate is overly full, Shemeska, but you do not lack for purpose in your day-to-day routine. Should you be interested in a storyline concerning a dual-expression virus ending civilization as we know it as a much-needed break from the incessant demands of the covid fiasco, pick up a used copy...

Players routinely display "flexible interpretations" of what their deity expects of them which are tailored to suit the player's present circumstances. It's the job of the DM to enforce a standard of proper and acceptable behavior once it's been agreed upon.