Recent content by humble minion

Yeah I know, but it was Elmore and co who were actually doing the art, and they were clearly VERY influenced by 80s fashion. (And similarly, no doubt in 40 years time future gamers will cringe about the '2020s fashion' look so prevalent in 5e products...)

Given the heavy 80s fashion influence on the classic Elmore Dragonlance art, with its big hair and its quasi-leotard leggings, honestly, Weis should perhaps be a little careful about what she wishes for. A Dragonlance aesthetic with similar period influences on its female fashion may have left...

Ah, I hadn't twigged that it hadn't actually been released yet! I thought it was just a Saudi-only thing that had never been translated to English or had an international release. Some sort of political or censorship machination seems depressingly possible, not that I'm particularly expert on...

Fair response from Heroforge on this. Probably the only possible one, given the firestorm didn't seem likely to die down any time soon, but kudos to them for making the call in the end. And probably also kudos to Darrington for (reading between the lines) being willing to rewrite the contract...

Solasta was a nice engine for getting the hang of 5e combat, or trying out new race/class combinations. Pity about the bunch of click-through-able cutscenes regrettably tacked on. I did play through the Lost Valley DLC which wasn't much better, story-wise. And I got part through a...

Yeah, if they’d locked the Daggerheart content behind the existing subscription paywall there’d have probably been less backlash. If they’d even bumped the subscription price a bit (in line with inflation) people wouldn’t have liked it, but there’d have been grumbling rather than outright...

To the best of my knowledge, no. A subscription gets you everything, except the new Daggerheart stuff. Yeah, the legacy frog and monkey faces are still there, though the new stuff expands a lot in them. HF has been updating their older assets a lot in the past year or so, more detail, higher...

https://x.com/HeroForgeMinis/status/1985400981304328238 Online miniature customiser Heroforge has been operating for a long time on a subscription model plus charging to download stls of your files or to have them printed and shipped, plus occasional crowdfunding campaigns for major new...

I liked that plot thread too, and it's a shame it was never followed up at the time. Short stubby people never seemed to get as much love in the game line or metaplot as slender hot elves or tieflings, or gothically angsty shades or drow... Some stuff to think about: Why is it called the...

The D&D2024 update/tie-in board game campaign for Obojima looks pretty likely to get there too. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1985games/obojima-tales-from-yatamon?ref=discovery&term=obojima&total_hits=15&category_id=34

I'm not entirely sure what this poll is intended to prove, but I voted the second option. I would have checked it out. I checked out 4e when it came out and decided it wasn't for me, I checked out D&D 2024 and decided to stick with 5e for the moment at least, although I've stolen some of the...

I try to have distinct voices for important NPCs, but I’m not a professional voice actor and can’t improvise voices worth a damn so I have to plan and practise a bit beforehand, so it’s not practical to do it for every shopkeeper or guard or urchin. My current campaign is the first time I’ve...

Bonus points if you can think up some cleverclogs way for your wizard to get Find (Greater) Steed on their spell list.

Find Familiar is an obvious one. The character who triggers the Arcane Abeyance-d spell is considered the caster, so you can let everyone in the party cast Find Familiar. Then let all the familiars cast it. And so on ad infinitum.