Recent content by bergec

I was quite fond of the setting back in the day before I moved on from 3e and they went all in on Hackmaster and using Kalamar as its default setting. The human ethnicities aren't too spot on for real world analogues, though the influences are certainly there. I found it to be a very coherent...

From the dev log: ⚙️ The System: A Modern Take on Roll & Keep, with the Best of 2E Your expectations are crystal clear. While some enjoyed the 2E system, many of you asked for a complete overhaul. Here’s what stood out: More tension in the dice rolls: many of you called for a return to Roll &...

Do these folks not have an editor? So many errors, it's embarrassing.

Chiming in to support MGibster, sometimes you can't guess how something is going to hit you ahead of time. I know plenty of folks who were surprised by their change in emotional response to children in danger in media after becoming parents, for example.

My groups are well-established friend groups so I don't explicitly use it but we've definitely had moments when someone called a stop or messaged me to bring attention to something that was bothering them. It's only come up once or twice in D&D games in the twenty years we've been playing with...

I rarely give them out in adventures. My party generally makes their own or purchases them. Particularly with their Bastions able to produce them.

So we know that there are going to be five revised species, so what do folks think they will be? Changelings, Kalashtar, Khoravar, Shifters, and Warforged seem a safe bet for inclusion, but I'm surprised that this means we won't get Goblinoids given how core they are to the setting. Thoughts?

Given that the two UAs have been themed (Forgotten Realms, Horror, and now Arcane), I'm leaning against an single book updating Tasha's and Xanathar's. Instead, I think they will update sub-classes in new books with lots of new content so they don't just feel like re-purchasing something you...

Each adventure starts with a Key Plot Points bullet point summary of the adventure and a Preparation section which lists out stat blocks used in the adventure and a table of Key NPCs with Name, Role, Stat Block, and Location. I really like this and hope this is a feature of their adventures...

The second edition of Unknown Armies had a piece of great gamemastering advice. It noted the tension between the GM acting as both the antagonist and the referee of the game and suggesting splitting the role. Between sessions, the GM figures out what the NPCs are doing and plots and plans...

Yep. https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/ua/forgotten-realms-subclasses

I've been gaming with my current group for twenty years and I don't know that we could have kept up with weekly games when folks started having kids and such without online gaming. We moved online with Covid, but have stayed online because it is just so much more convenient for people. We do an...