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Maybe you're a former MIB agent and you don't remember because they Neuralysed you when you left the service.

This seems cool, and I don't hate it at first blush as much as I do most 5.24 innovations. But magic is so deeply baked into the game...

I am glad nothing is over level 13, lower levels get a lot more use out of these small scenarios

I'd have it begin with the fireball or whatever AoE that finished off the party being uncast, and getting most of the party up (along...

Conceptually, I like it, but what are the players going to do throughout the combat? How will they even know what they can do? What will...

I'd quibble with the degree, but combat is decidedly not front and center of the Star Trek Adventures game. Arguably the game steers you...

As a DM I like when the players have tiny hut because it means I don't have to come up with as many encounters during long rests. Since...

Holy...so stupid.

I found them to be a good example of what other worldbooks should do, in terms of evocative, original locations and plot hooks. But...

Tal'Dorei is pretty much just another generic fantasy setting. That's not a knock in my book, that means that I don't have to do a bunch...

It's even got a circular base

I do think people who haven't worked with 2020s middle schoolers would struggle to imagine how difficult many of them find reading at...

Thanks, friends. I am going to use a few really short ones from Kobold Press's Prepared! scenarios, as well as a printed out version of...

I would have more respect for the new edition if it really did its own things according to some sort of coherent vision rather than just...

5E 2014 is pretty darn close to my preferred playstyle. I can't imagine a more self-consciously "innovative" game getting closer.