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

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 objection to JRPGs is the player’s general lack of meaningful choices/agency/ability to affect the story.

And you know what? I'd argue that Veilguard is STILL quite good, particularly once you get past the first 10 hours. Certainly it doesn't at all deserve the vitriol its received online (not really from actual critics, who generally liked it, but from the usual suspects). Part of the problem is...

It seems like you've stacked the deck in order to make sure that the results will be right for your table, so it will be fine. One caveat: I suspect that if I told my players about the Void card as an example of what could happen, I think most of them (and I have about 40 regulars) would just...

T’Lingbet and Mercury return in Episode 28 of To Slay a Dragon, presented by Cast Party and by EN Publishing. Listen wherever fine podcasts are heard in the PodCast Party: A D&D Podcast feed or here: https://cast-party.com/2025/05/19/to-slay-a-dragon-part-28/

Make it clear to the players from the outset that they'll be dealing with multiple waves of enemies with no opportunity to rest in between. They'll at least then know they need to ration their resources.

The issue with Dark Sun isn't that it portrays slavery as good. It's that it portrays it as a pervasive and more or less permanent cornerstone of every major civilization in the setting. The most common trope for starting a Dark Sun campaign is "we're slave gladiators." "It's a fantasy game...

At least they listened!

While destroying Athasspace was an idea included in an early draft of Light of Xaryxis, it wasn’t actually done in the published adventure. WotC owns the Dark Sun brand, so there is no danger of anyone else “having it.” They’re not gonna do anything with it, though. They’ve said previously...

There are a few mentions of Dark Sun in the 2014 PHB and a few in the 2014 DMG as well, and references have cropped up here and there in official products since then. I wouldn’t read anything into it. It’s mainly an acknowledgment that there is such a setting and you can do stuff with it in...

I’m pretty okay with this resolution. But man was it sloppy not to line these ducks up pre-launch. Or maybe, you know, just not to have done this particular project. But having made the mistakes they made, I am okay with this resolution. Not gonna fund this kickstarter or buy this product, but...

She won't!

I am a huge fan of Goodman Games and have bought several of their products, including previous Kickstarters. Love DCC. This is very discouraging and disappointing. I am particularly disturbed by the "it's time to build bridges" comment. Because it seems like the only particular "bridge" being...

Not to mention a fair amount of print-on-demand shorter adventures are also available. Yes, this board does skew that old. The young people mostly don't really use message boards; they use Discord and other stuff.