Recent content by Clint_L

Black Panther?

This thread led me to their “Play D&D in a Castle” retreats and now I am pitching my spouse on a trip to England.

Do they always hold this at the same destination? Anyone know if there ever any courses run outside the US, particularly in Canada?

Phandelver is on my short list of best adventures for any edition. That's a high bar to match. Heroes of the Borderlands is an interesting choice because it plays so hard into the nostalgia factor, especiaaly given the 50th anniversary. Given the impressive number of double-sided battle maps...

Yeah, ultimately I think most of us agree that the contents of this box seem like good value for $50. But I'm not the target audience. For me, the question is whether that price is too high for the impulse buy niche that Lost Mine of Phandelver, in particular, served so admirably for years. I...

Like what you like, but to me it is very unconvincing to claim some sort of precedent for your personal taste when D&D specifically grew out of miniatures gaming and was designed with that in mind. As someone who teaches D&D to beginners (I sponsor my school’s D&D Club), I find miniatures or...

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Pros: they add a lot more options for martial players. Cons: they definitely slow the game down, even with experienced players, and with beginners...whoof. It depends: they are a much bigger damage buff to martials than expected. Too big at lower and mid levels, IMO, throwing balance out of...

As a co-op student way back in the 90s, my spouse had to compare the purity of Vancouver tap water to various brands of bottled water. The tap water was cleaner than all of them, and the worst offender in terms of fecal coliform numbers was Evian. In general, bottled water is a scam, not to...

My family is from Sweden and I was in Stockholm just last summer. It's a very welcoming, multicultural city, and most Swedes would be offended at the suggestion that you would be seen as an outsider because you don't look like a viking. FYI. Also, even just looking at folks with roots that go...

Most starter sets do not give you the full game, no. For example, both the Eldritch Horror RPG and Call of Cthulhu starter sets use simplified rules. As do all the previous D&D sets. $50 seems like good value for what is in the box, and getting the digital version for five bucks more is...

The main reason it’s not a new edition is that the game now runs through DDB first and foremost.

For the latter, is your DM not aware that they can just share their own books with players in the campaign and not require them to purchase additional copies? That’s one of the best perks of DDB!

I’ll wait to see some actual evidence one way or another before venturing an opinion.

It was kind of inevitable that 2024 would have the largest sales on release given how much the player base has grown over the course of 5e. But those comments, aside from the specific DDB numbers, are just PR spin anyway.