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I ran The Fouled Stream as my first ever session as a DM yesterday. I played in 2 2014-rules one-shots years ago, played in some other...

feels pretty premature for calling it...

It's fifteen pages, but a vast majority of the content is reminding a creator what is new. There are also revisions, name changes and...

GREAT reviews, thank you! Question: does the book include maps? If so, might be an easy buy for me.

Preorder Backerkit Page DM's Guild Store Page Edition Note: This book was designed with the updated 2024 5e ruleset in mind. The...

You might be thinking of Avowed? That got a patch this week that added an arachnophobia setting.

I agree with everything you’ve said. It’s interesting though: « woke leads to failure » is only trotted out as an argument if the game...

This might be the best summary of this phenomenon that I've ever read.

That’s because “get woke, go broke” isn’t an observation of an actual pattern; it’s an incantation. It gets chanted with the intent that...

It's very much still a story you experience instead of one you drive, though the writing is excellent. The gameplay is very satisfying...

Clair Obscur isn't substantially different from other games in its genre in regards to the story being kind of on rails. There's some...

I think @Charlaquin 's point is that subjectivity you mentioned is often retrospective. Like a game is "putting diversity first" until...

No, it used to be a pretty specific term before reactionaries co-opted it. Now it’s a dog whistle and a rhetorical tool that is vague by...

Whatever you play right after BG3 is gonna seem kinda bad imo.

Incidentally, if I don’t generally like JRPGs, will I enjoy Clair Obscur? I know it’s a French game, but it seems JRPG-esque. My main...