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Did some DMing for a party of four 6th level characters. It was a face-to-face session at a local game store. The party consisted of a dwarf fighter, a tiefling bard, a halfling rogue and a halfling cleric. We are still using the 2014 5E rules (except for Exhaustion, we use the 2024 rules for...

Did some DMing today for a party of four players in the Forgotten Realms. They explored an old Elven ruin on the High Moor, battled some Undead and discovered a long-forgotten shrine and some religious relics. They then headed downriver by boat but were attacked from above by Perytons. Finally...

Bought back up copies of the 2014 PHB, DMG and MM because they are going out of print and I want to keep using the old 5E rules. Also bought the Pirate Borg core rulebook. Would like to use some of the ideas for a short D&D campaign set in Eberron's Lhazaar Principalities or Ghosts of Saltmarsh...

By 2034, I imagine most players will log on to D&D Beyond and then a WOTC 'official' AI dungeon master will run them through the adventure. Maybe fellow party members will also be AI? Maybe the PHB will have a QR code inside the front cover that you need to scan to authenticate yourself to get...

An interview with the author of this new Ravenloft book about a novel she published last year.

Kind of related, here's an interview with the writer of an official Ravenloft comic book series that was published in 2022.

The Hold Steady - The Swish.

Lae'zel plushies.

I'd always imagined that the staff at the TSR offices would take turns DMing and being players in each other's campaigns rather than having a 'forever DM' kind of situation. So it seems odd to discourage players from reading the DMG.

I was rereading the 1978 1st Edition of the AD&D Player's Handbook today and some things in the introduction stood out to me: "The game is ideally for three or more adult players". "You interact with your fellow role players, not as Jim and Bob and Mary that work at the office together, but...

The recent Spelljammer novel has a free audiobook preview if anyone's interested. Here's a link, reading starts at 17 seconds in: Spelljammer: Memory's Wake free preview

Unless Larian Studios got involved with the writing, which I don't think they would, I don't think it would be the same unfortunately. Baldur's Gate 3's plot points, character developments and lore have aspects which I don't think WotC is comfortable doing anymore. The game was based on early 5E...

Regarding the original thread topic, the idea of forcing a certain number of encounters before each short or long rest is about game mechanics and resources. From the point-of-view of the world the characters are in, it is not realistic at all unless the characters are penetrating an enemy...

Someone looking through the book and making comments.

"Ensuring fun for all"!