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Old Gods of Appalachia RPG by Monte Cook Games

We're currently heading down the home stretch of ToD and I promised my players our first 5e campaign would be "by the book" so we could get a fair test drive (also--the DMG had not released yet when we began), BUT when I start our 5e Greyhawk campaign (early March), we're gonna use.... Loyalty...

Nice....thanks for posting that. I totally get it that WoTC couldn't possibly cram every monster ever devised into the new Monster Manual, but I'd have loved to have seen more good and/or neutral outsiders. Sometimes its nice for the PCs to have an adversary that is powerful, proud, and...

As my poor gnome bard laid there on the dungeon floor at 0 hp, awaiting my turn to make a death save (or for the cleric to make his way to me) and the BBG kept casting fireballs in the vicinity of my poor, smoking body--I sure felt the threat of character death in 5E. As my life flashed before...

I hope I'm not hitting on too many already-covered topics here (sorry, I did not read all 286 replies), but HoDQ isn't as much a 'bad' adventure as it is a 'perplexing' adventure. I believe I called it a 'hot mess' in my review. There are flashes of brilliance (many detailed NPCs & encounters...

5 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Starter Set There are two things I LOVED about this set. First, the included adventure is awesome. In the beginning, it is simple enough that new players can work themselves into the scenario, and as the adventure progresses, it opens up into this...

2 out of 5 rating for Hoard of the Dragon Queen I really wanted to like (nay, love!) this adventure, as it was the maiden (adventure) voyage for the newest version of D&D. But after completing the book with my players, I must say it is-at best-a hot mess. As with tRoT, there are inspired bits...

5 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Monster Manual I'll admit it--I'm usually a crunch-over-fluff DM. Just give me a good stat block and I'll figure out the rest. However, the best part of the newest MM is the lore for each monster. Almost every creature had at least one lore entry that...

3 out of 5 rating for The Rise of Tiamat An improvement over its predecessor, but its many inconsistencies keep me from giving it 4 stars. There are flashes of brilliance here, but it's still basically an adventure outline buried in a wall-of-text. With all the potential buried in there, one...

4 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Dungeon Master's Guide Awesome tome. The only (minor) complaint is that many topics seem barely touched-upon, but I suppose the lack of depth was necessary in order to cover as much ground as the book manages to do. This one is a keeper...

4 out of 5 rating for Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 2 The second PF Bestiary provides a healthy mix of familiar D&D-style monsters with plenty of new creatures. I especially enjoyed the nods to modern crypto-zoology (chupacabra, mothman) and the interesting collection of giant animals...

5 out of 5 rating for Kobold Guide To Combat The beauty of Kobold Guide to Combat is the amazing variety of approaches taken in the essays. You don't get fifteen versions of 'do this to run better combats.' Instead, you get an article about tactics, another about military history, another about...

4 out of 5 rating for Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Bestiary 3 In the Bestiary 3, one will find fewer of the old familiar fantasy RPG beasties (although there are plenty of traditional fey creatures, such as faerie dragons, fauns, foo creatures, nixies and sprites) and more creatures typically...