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IIRC Descent into Avernus has you literally burning souls for fuel in your mad max war-car.

Whether you want guns in your setting or not is up to individual preference, but I imagine most will agree that adding something like powerful guns to a game which is easily accessed and mechanically superior to other options is ... bad design. When I run something spelljammer, there are guns...

I'm glad to see players think through their problems and treat "combat as war," coming up with ingenious ways through or around encounters. I don't think there's anything particularly ingenious, creative, or clever about using a rifle, longbow, or crossbow to kill a foe from 1000+ft.

Whenever I see peoples' only experience with DCC is having played through a funnel, I know they didn't get a good view of the actual game. Funnel characters are level 0's- they can't do much! My intro to DCC was a 2hr one-shot with level 3 premade characters at the GAMA trade show, by Good...

One big reason Solamnic Knights weren't paladins when we met them in the original Dragonlance books is because there were no holy powers in Krynn at that time. The gods had peaced out. However they were founded because of a vision sent by the gods of good, they served said gods of good, they...

I personally hate DMing "evil" campaigns- being the narrative processor for the PCs actively sowing terror, abusing folk, torture, cannibalism, trying to actively make things worse just to "be the bad guys"... it burned me out when one campaign went in that direction. The worst I can handle is...

I like that they included some narrative requirements for the DK and Lich paths. Though I can easily see players just passing over them and taking the feat as part of the level-up process without any actual action taken in-game to do so (other than gaining levels). "Oh yeah I'm level 16 and now...

Gotta compare these feat chains to the A5E ones. I know there's a lich feat chain, I haven't seen a death knight one though. In one of yours @Timespike ?

Can you elaborate on that? Very curious- I can maybe guess what you mean, but don't want to put words in your mouth 😅

Some folk are criticizing that it's a pose, as opposed to an action piece. Who decides the subject and style of the work? Did the artist decide that, or the client? I assume the client in this case, or maybe they had a back-and-forth- they probably didn't say "just do whatever you want."

It seemed like executive leadership changes. Leadership was open to doing stuff with Mangianello (the dragonlance show). Then Hasbro did some shuffling, changed leadership, new leadership didn't want to do it. Now leadership has changed again.. and it seems like they're keen on working with...

A book can have a big name attached to is and still be good. I get that the instinct is to assume it's gonna be trash, but I can't tell you how often I've referred to the Gygax Book of Names... And Gary had very little to do with that book, or that entire line afaik. I haven't actually checked...

Would love to check what what you came up with @MadBeard

Waiting to hear back from OP 😆 One of the better suggestions to spice things up was terrain. To make it easy on the GM, some patches of dangerous terrain (literally, not just slowing speed) that the baddies are immune to.

One of Arcadia magazines issues ?maybe issue 8?, had funnel rules that are worth looking at- I used them to great success. Then again more recently I ran a funnel with each player running 2-3 level 1 characters and that worked fine too. What is say is perhaps have pregens AND let your players...