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I took a look at MCDM's Kingdoms& Warfare on my blog, which has a whole lot of facets beyond just Kingdoms and Warfare. Looking at domain turns, units, warfare, monsters, artifacts, and the included adventure. What Do I Know About Reviews? Kingdoms and Warfare

I took a look at how the 5e Mystic developed across several Unearthed Arcanas, and then took a look at the preview version of Web DM's Psion class, which will be making its debut in the Weird Wastelands book. We don't have any subclasses yet, but I take a look at the structure and what we know...

Brandes Stoddard put out a product on the DMs Guild, with guidelines for changing backgrounds, advancing backgrounds, and recruiting (and paying) NPCs. I've always wanted backgrounds to have more narrative weight, and the rules in this product help to provide some additional gravitas. See what...

What Do I Know About Reviews? Arcadia Issue #03 Today on the blog, I'm looking at the third issue of MCDM's Arcadia magazine. This issue has new dream-based ancestries, spells, aerial combat rules, and an investigative adventure. Swing by for a look at the last issue before MCDM's break to...

What Do I Know About Reviews? Blue Rose Adventurer's Guide (D&D 5e) Today on the blog, I'm taking a look at Green Ronin's classic setting of Blue Rose, which has been used with the True20 and FantasyAGE systems in the past. The new Player's Guide updates the setting for D&D 5e. Will you like...

What Do I Know About First Impressions? Unearthed Arcana 2021 Gothic Lineages I take a look at today's Unearthed Arcana release, introducing the D&D 5e version of the Dhampir, Hexblood, and the Returned. What does this mean for future lineages? Where are these going to show up? What trends can...

For this week's poll, I'm hoping to gather some opinions about what makes hacking feel "right" in a cyberpunk setting. How much detail do you need, how many special rules, and what kind of resolution should it have? I also added a section on your formative cyberpunk influences, just to see how...

What Do I Know About Reviews? Arcadia I had a chance to look at the new Arcadia magazine, a D&D 5e product produced mainly as a reward for the MCDM Patreon of Matt Colville's. This is a very slick production with a wide range of articles included. Thanks for giving this a read in advance, and...

What Do I Know About Opinions? Long Term NPC Companions I'll be running a poll asking your opinions about NPC party members. I'll be running this poll until January 7th, after which time I'll be summarizing the results on my blog. I would love to get your opinions on this question, so if you...

What Do I Know About Reviews? My Dad's Monster Manual Today on my blog, I took a look at James Introcaso's latest work for the DMs Guild, My Dad's Monster Manual. It's a great concept, where he showed the artwork of various monsters to his father and asked him for details about the creatures...

What Do I Know About Reviews? The Sleeping Beast This was a little odd, because I wanted to look at the adventure that came with the GM screen, even though the GM screen itself is . . . very much like the GM screen for the Star Trek Adventures game with Klingon font and images. I really wanted...

I've been looking at different RPG topics on my blog: WhatDoIKnowJR.com Last week I looked at the tried and true topic of alignment, but this week I wanted to look at what it takes for RPG consumers to pick up a new edition of an RPG. If you are so inclined, please swing by the survey and let...

Lots of games have subsystems for resolving conflicts that don't utilize their normal round to round resolution. 4th Edition and Star Wars Saga have Skill Challenges. Savage Worlds has various sub-systems for chases, mass combat, and social conflicts. Mutants and Masterminds has challenges to...

I need to grow a set. I posted here a few weeks ago about how I was getting burned out by running my Pathfinder game, and I wanted to step back and run something like Savage Worlds, and that if someone in the group wanted to keep going with Pathfinder, I'd step down as GM. I told my group, I...

I finally have my Earth 52 DC Adventures game set up the way I want it to work on Epic Words. I have all of the GM perspective updates posted on the site, for anyone that is interested. Earth 52 - Epic Words

I'll preface this by saying if this does happen, its months in the future, barring something else going wrong. I'm committed to finishing up my current campaign before I move on from the rules system I'm using, because it just wouldn't be fair otherwise to my players. So, here's the quick...

I posted about Nerdrage and elitism on my blog, because I'm getting a bit tired of people using single words to shut down discussion and questions. Feel free to comment here or there, if you feel so inclined. What Do I Know? KnightErrantJR&#39s Games and Geekdom Blog - Fanboy Nerdraging Rant...

I had kind of a theoretical thought about starting alignment recently, and I wanted to see what others thought of the idea. And as a preface, I'm kind of going with the idea the baseline is that, yes, alignment is being used in the campaign, so I'm kind of hoping to skip the "alignments are...

So, lately, I've come to be a bit frustrated with a few things about Paizo. They still put out some really excellent adventures and some really interesting campaign setting material, but I'm leery of rules bloat with books like Ultimate Magic and Ultimate Combat following so closely on the...

Because I'm horribly OCD, I just noticed that this year I've got 299 distinct visitors to my Games and Geekdom Blog. I must see this go over 300. You will wonder why you wasted your time, I will warn you up front, but you will have the warm, fuzzy feeling of knowing that I can sleep at night...