Recent content by jayoungr

My first game was Fantasy Hero. After that, I played D&D 2E a few times when visiting friends, but when I actually found a group and got into gaming on a weekly basis (around 2004), we were playing mostly BESM and GURPS. Later, I taught myself D&D 3.5 so I could run a campaign for an online...

Substitute "ruleset" for "game" and see if that helps. Adventure path versus sandbox being two different ways to use the D&D ruleset (i.e. "same game"). D&D versus any other ruleset (Blades in the Dark, Hillfolk, etc.). We've got multiple threads of conversation in this discussion, but as far...

I don't think this analogy works because you're talking about two different ways to play the same game, rather than two different games.

I wouldn't object to pregens per se, but I'd like to know why the DM isn't letting us make our own characters. Is it to tailor the characters to the setting and storyline? Cool. Is it because the DM doesn't trust the players to make characters correctly or not to make them OP? Less cool (but...

Well, we'll see. I personally will be surprised if they're looking to replace Van Richten's Guide, but it could happen.

They are, however, what differentiates one game from another.

In terms of the pacing of 5E releases, that is soon. In my opinion, at least.

I could be wrong, but I have my doubts that they'll revisit Ravenloft in hardback so soon after Van Richten's Guide. But they clearly have horror-related plans, as evidenced by the recent UA. So if that's not more Ravenloft, what would it be? Maybe a Vecna-style adventure path visiting multiple...

At what point does it stop being conservatism and turn into a simple preference for one game over another?

Also, one person's "rapid rollercoaster" is another person's reasonable pace. That first person's reasonable pace is inevitably someone else's excruciating snail crawl.

Try Kobold Press's various Books of Lairs. They are exactly what you're looking for.

Well, that explains a lot, like how people keep ranting about too much magic and too many hitpoints. For what it's worth, I'm also old enough to remember 1987, but I use PDFs and even Discord freely. I believe @payn is the one you're referring to about milestone experience. I personally prefer...

I guess that's fair. It just seems strange to me that people who spend so much time online, including many who have mentioned running games on VTT, are so resistant to PDF adventures.

I'd love to run or play Courts of the Shadow Fey from Kobold Press. I've been wanting to do something interesting with fey for a while now. I've been running for and playing with groups of 6 or more for the past few years, so I'd like a nice, tight 4-person group that are into in-depth roleplay...

I have a hard time believing that people who hang out on an online message board are that resistant to using PDF adventures. Even if you have a strong preference for hard copies, it's trivially easy to print 32 pages when most people have easy access to laser printers at home, at work, through...