Recent content by Alby87

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...

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...