Recent content by Alby87

General consensus is that OSE is a good reference manual, but not a teaching tool. Something that the older B/X was always really good. If this change the paradigm of OSE, letting people learn from this (having a new version of all the good advice from BX missing in OSE) and then use the OSE for...

When I DM for my friends, we all know the boundaries. If ever some problems would arise, I think they would tell me upfront. When I DM for the public association in open one shot tables, I always present the X Card (no player needed to use it). Once, during an adventure league, player, I wish...

Remember the UA we didn't know what book they were for? Here it is. Probably a lot of subclasses are "DLCs" (that should be... well, "downloadable" per definition XD)

You can chat with your DM. Try to understand where there errors and where there are choices. The Slow Healing Rule to me is a good rule for hexcrawl (better than Gritty), the lingering injury I would use when a player goes to 0 HP (to avoid the classic "don't use healing until is almost death)...

Yes, yes they are. The first starter set had subpar teaching material, coupled with a great adventure, lost mines of phandelver. They fixed the disparity in the next starter set, coupling the subpar teaching material with a subpar adventure. Ok, jokes apart: the first starter set have some nice...

IMHO, really good books to start JUST mastering D&D are the basic boxes from the 80s. B/X or BECMI ones. They are tied on dungeon crawling, they are tied to the old rules but they are something, but they really explain how the DM "plays" the game. After this, and some time for building...

Reading this post, got me thinking wish we had a "Nadia - The secret of blue water" RPG. That would be fantastic: steampunk submarine adventures with a touch of Jules Verne at the end of the 19th century.

And if you're a PC player (or first XBOX too, if I don't remember bad) please give a shot to TRON 2.0. That was and still is a masterpiece. Because of the style of the world, it hasn't aged a day since release.

If you want just to update your MM 2014 there are two books by Dragonix (the same of the Monster Manual Expanded) with "talents" for monster, to bump up their dangerousness: "DM Options: Monster Talents" (there are two: one for MM2014, other for Volo/Mordy (or MotM).

Always, always, always hoped that a spell list with one phrease to quick choice spells would have been included in the core books. Pathfinder has it, 3.5 Magic Compendium has it... 20x4 5e no. Really usefull would have been also pregen lists in the books for higher level. I know those list can...

I don't have many occasions to try, we play like one hour online every week, and I don't have the ability to experiment, we go for the simplest sessions possible. Mine was more of a curiosity, asking people more versed than me in the fine art of Dungeon Mastering. My question was about this...

Hi! We all know one that the old MM had underperforming monsters based on their CR (if used badly), and the new keep those CR expection giving the DM less choices. Questions: is this MM usable with the old rules, old encounter building rules and old characters? There will be interesting fights...

Absolutely understandable. Small publishers have smaller audience too, so is normal that more errors slip by. I know that no book is without errors, and even if internet digital users can check the book before printing still errors will be present. But a lot of them, with the enormous D&D...

They really should release a book only on Beyond, let it be a temporal exclusive for some months, then release the book later. I don't know how much time pass between the "closing" of a WotC book and shelf availability. Let's say when they publish a book on beyond they have also the book...

Player content were to make that "Acquisitions Inc." flavour that really overpowers the player, but the base system was good (change something and it is setting-indipendent). Nowadays you have the Bastion system. The adventure (only read it, to be honest) seems a lot of fun to master and play!