Recent content by Alby87

This pinball is something else. The previously one (by Bally, 1987) had the classic Elmore red box set cover as a backglass, and a nice playfield. The only thing is that the playfield and the game are "generic" fantasy. This has pratically Mercer doing the DM voice, with a lot of people from...

I won! With the grand total of 2 dodged bullet (instagram stories with the original song but volume already to zero) and one cover in a local tv advert... I couldn't belive it.

Slow start, but genuily a banger!

That! There in Italy we have different "classic" Christmas song (but pop ones are getting on radio for the period). But Carol of the Bells. The first time I head that song was in Home Alone, I tought that it was made for the movie. Then I heard a remix on Jazz Jackrabbit PC Game, and it was more...

"That belongs in a museum!" Another professor about the professor's desk.

Didn't noticed the FAQ. I didn't like the text in OSE where they tell you "you don't know how to play? Go search in internet someone who explains you then go back for the real rules". This hurts expecially when you think the game is based on was the quintessential (alongside Mentzer one) of the...

How good are the new introductory materials? OSE is a fantastic retroclone... and not so good new players' book.

Except for one shots or small adventures programmed to last for some session, I had three campaigns: one Curse of Strahd, one Tales from the Yawning Portal and one homebrew around Scornubel. CoS is were my players are 10, they pratically toured every place in Barovia. It is also my first DM...

Cyclic as the moon and the taxes, recently some threads start talking again about high-level play, the missing official content, why the game breaks at higher level and so on. This will not be the thread that will solve everything, but a question came to my mind. Please remember that: I’m a 5e...

Always thinking that this should be the way, probably also written in some other posts by me. D&D needs a book on how to do Tier 3 and 4. Explain the most game-breaking spells, magic items and PC options, how to avoid common pitfalls when making encounters. Explain how to make really engaging...

https://www.giochisulnostrotavolo.it/2025/10/24/need-games-lucca-comics-games-2025/ In this website (sorry, Italian only) is writing the press release of need games for Lucca

Those book will be published, in days, in their Italian version by Need Games, in the upcoming Lucca Comics and Games convention. You will be able to know some more info if someone who will get the book will care to share :)

Different audiences need different products. I love FoundryVTT self-host, but I'm technical aware enough to create a setup to keep it running (the other game night, one of my player couldn't connect because technical difficulties... could fix for him in timely manner, but this is not for...

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...