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For a little over 20 years, I ran a game where characters created their character, and I created their mentor in conjunction with them. As they leveled, and outpaced their mentors, new mentors appeared that were informed by where the characters were heading, storywise. In that way, the old rules...

I bought Retribution years ago for Pathfinder; it would be awesome to give it another go now that my group has transitioned to 5e.

Agreed! I've collected all five of the Original Adventures Reincarnated, but the Temple slipcase is something that I've been looking forward to all year! They've done a great job with the first in the series; I can't wait to see what they're doing with the next one...

I have to admit, the coffin-shaped box struck me as awesome at first, and then way too gimmicky, and then kind of cool... ...and then the foil-leaf tarokka pushed me back over the edge again! Mine arrived a short while ago, but I have to wait till the kids are in bed to open it. Can't wait to...

After all the whining and fussing, maybe now all the conservative snowflakes can stop with the "Help! Help! We're being oppressed!" nonsense over changes to the Vistani. Removing labels on an entire society as being "evil" is a minor change in the text that goes a long way towards normalizing a...

I respectfully disagree. If your magic items are some potions of healing and a magical sword, your only enterprising choice would be to try bribing a monster that--if you are thinking of running--probably feels pretty confident it can kill you and your stuff anyway. My players also prize...

This is the first thing that came to my mind. I've had this conversation with my players over the years, when an article makes me look back wistfully on the "olden days." But what they have invariably pointed out to me was that the creature that ate half the party could have outrun them and...

Thank you for this review - I wasn't sure this book was for me, at first, but I can tell that this is just what I was looking for!

Naturally, but wouldn't it have been better to have these the first time around, like every other primary release? And, as mentioned above, now they are being released as key NPCs but missing the canonical NPCs who have been part of this adventure since the mid-80s. It's still strange. I mean...

One more time for the people in the cheap seats. Why indeed? Considering Curse of Strahd was the first major release that got a Monster Menagerie instead of a formal minis release...this is a bit late and full of odd choices...

This looks like Shadows of Brimstone meets Dungeons & Dragons. I have a ten year old who is going to LOVE this; my wife and I are already excited to play it with her!

I had to double back on this one, too. It really is a great book, with so many cool monsters. It was the title that caused my delay. But after getting my hands on it, to quote Hellraiser II, "To think...I hesitated..."

So did most of us. In the 90s.

You mean the era of my life when my Sunday School teacher told me that I was going to hell because I played a glorified board game? When my sixth grade teacher pretended to be interested in my hobby to secretly vet whether I should be sent to counseling because I liked to imagine I was an elf...

Wait, are you seriously trying to say that the way you view the world has no impact on the way you behave in it?

You are aware that the things we see in our entertainment have a direct effect on the way we see the world...right? By changing the things our children grow up playing, and by changing the things our adults repeat nightly/weekly/monthly over the table or internet with friends, WoTC IS making a...

On a personal note, I reflect on how many times I worked hard to create a fact-based, intelligent-sounding argument, only to be laughed at and told that I'd been "triggered." To see the amount of "triggered-ness" going on right now because checks notes people are being treated fairly now...is...

Well, to be fair, they have to be called something, and "50 years of cultural naughty word detectors" doesn't roll off the tongue.

To quote the movie Tombstone, "Well...bye..."

It really feels like it's the duration of the campaigns that impacts the highest level reached. That might seem a little too obvious, but, my experiences back up the assertion: 1. High school campaign with 1e/2e leveling - Ran 10 years and ended with characters averaging level 20. 2. College...