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Here's the thing about The Year Without A Santa Claus - everyone remembers the Heat Miser/Snow Miser thing (which is fantastic!) but the rest of the show is really bad. There's a reason everyone remembers Heat Miser and Snow Miser.

I have had to come to terms with the fact that the current generation of "Adventure Path" style adventures are not for me. I find them too poorly organized to be useful at the table and they often require way too much time to whip them into shape. I vastly prefer the books (like Yawning Portal)...

I think (for me obviously) 5e is the middle ground between B/X’s simplicity and 3.5’s crunch that I’ve wanted for ages. I think it takes some of the best ideas in D&D’s history and tried to make a ”greatest hits” version. I especially appreciate its modular nature - for example, feats and...

I am a little bummed that they aren't seeming to do add-ons as shipping of older volumes can get pretty pricey.

I think one of the problems is that the people that write D&D books need to realize that writing fiction and writing rulebooks are not the same

I would like them to work on usability - an index would be nice, as well as readable rules over walls of text.

"Reaction, Opportunity Attack...see Attack of Opportunity"

WDH got sensational reviews when it came but it's a half-baked adventure and barely a sourcebook smashed together and the huge selling point of "it's four adventures in one!" is sort of a joke (...and don't get me started on the whole "Ooh, who is this Xanathar guy, it's such a mystery if you...

Yeah, I'm not an editor but I imagine "Attack of Opportunity, page 234" would have been easier

This is more or less what we did, which is why I laugh to myself when the "3d6 down the line is the only way to play!" crowd starts talking. IME the people that try to tell you how everyone used to play back in the day do not reflect my experience at all.

I was really hoping that Yawning Portal was going to be the first of many...seeing that there are decades of adventures available it seemed like a no-brainer to pick out 5-6 good adventures from the past, spruce them up and add new art and put out a new hardcover. If they had done that once a...

I’d go back further but maybe that’s just me. I’ve far preferred the anthology books over the adventure path style books. I think Alexander’s review brought up some good points - the books have significant errors and aren't formatted to be terribly usable at the table. Not only that, there are...

Usually when I try to research a product I get exactly that - really more a press release that a review. I know they’re not going to actually run the adventure before writing something, but I’d like a little more than the first impressions I could get while flipping through a book at B&N.

Games used to have Designer’s Notes in them (Red Hand of Doom’s were particularly good, IIRC) and if we can have a page on “What is a role playing game” in every Players’ Handbook we can certainly make room for the occasional sidebar.

The best DC movie is Batman. The 1966 version.

I like Fifth Edition, I appreciate that it tries to strike a middle ground between the faster play of earlier versions while adding a bit of flavor and crunch but not going as far as 3 and 4. I want that kind of simpler, faster play than I had under 3.5. It’s not perfect, but nothing will be. I...

Obviously I'm a weirdo but I like 5e's backing away from the Magic Shop mentality, it makes the items my players come across more meaningful but yes, it does throw the economy off (I can't help but remember to Waterdeep: Dragon Heist's "well, now your players have half a million gold, what do...

Completely agree. 5e adventures in particular are both tightly scripted and assume that players won't deviate from the plan which makes it very difficult for a DM (especially a new DM) to improvise to make up for players thinking of approaches that the writer didn't anticipate. For a version...

I am very excited for Shadowdark for several reasons, but the first is that Kelsey is one of the few people writing adventures today that can actually seem to write an honest-to-FSM playable at the table adventure. Anyone on the fence for this should go to Arcane Library and look at a couple of...

I would like it to not be some "half setting guide, half adventure, neither of which are good" book that clocks in under 200 pages with way too much art in lieu of actual content.