Recent content by edosan

I've been thinking about the "do I need all this stuff" question a lot lately - cleaning out a parent's apartment will do that. I have a lot of "stuff-intensive" interest and I'm really taking a hard look at whether I'll watch that movie or play that game or use those crafting supplies again...

Yeah, we were big fans of the "You find a halfling thief in the back of the goblin lair, bound and gagged" back in the day...

I'd be okay with that if they actually made a sourcebook that was worth the trouble instead of the half sourcebook, half campaign Frankenstein things that we get

As other people have said, that's the dream, sure. In my world Curse of Strahd broke me because having to basically memorize a 250+ page campaign that I personally found poorly organized in the first place was too much for me with everything else going on in my life so I just dropped the...

Here's the thing about The Year Without A Santa Claus - everyone remembers the Heat Miser/Snow Miser thing (which is fantastic!) but the rest of the show is really bad. There's a reason everyone remembers Heat Miser and Snow Miser.

I have had to come to terms with the fact that the current generation of "Adventure Path" style adventures are not for me. I find them too poorly organized to be useful at the table and they often require way too much time to whip them into shape. I vastly prefer the books (like Yawning Portal)...

I think (for me obviously) 5e is the middle ground between B/X’s simplicity and 3.5’s crunch that I’ve wanted for ages. I think it takes some of the best ideas in D&D’s history and tried to make a ”greatest hits” version. I especially appreciate its modular nature - for example, feats and...

I am a little bummed that they aren't seeming to do add-ons as shipping of older volumes can get pretty pricey.

I think one of the problems is that the people that write D&D books need to realize that writing fiction and writing rulebooks are not the same

I would like them to work on usability - an index would be nice, as well as readable rules over walls of text.

"Reaction, Opportunity Attack...see Attack of Opportunity"

WDH got sensational reviews when it came but it's a half-baked adventure and barely a sourcebook smashed together and the huge selling point of "it's four adventures in one!" is sort of a joke (...and don't get me started on the whole "Ooh, who is this Xanathar guy, it's such a mystery if you...

Yeah, I'm not an editor but I imagine "Attack of Opportunity, page 234" would have been easier

This is more or less what we did, which is why I laugh to myself when the "3d6 down the line is the only way to play!" crowd starts talking. IME the people that try to tell you how everyone used to play back in the day do not reflect my experience at all.

I was really hoping that Yawning Portal was going to be the first of many...seeing that there are decades of adventures available it seemed like a no-brainer to pick out 5-6 good adventures from the past, spruce them up and add new art and put out a new hardcover. If they had done that once a...