Recent content by Jeff Carpenter

Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft Is the the title and that makes sense. In the person guide naming scheme.

All I wants is monsters.......so whatever it is hopefully 50% monsters. With at least 10 legendary monsters if i am being demanding. I can re skin them to whatever i want, so I don't care about setting, but give me more monsters please.

Great stuff. Glad to see random encounters be more than just 2d8 orcs attack. Hopefully this section is 700 pages of dense content.

You never saw how 14 year old me and my friends played CoC...... Tommygun filled with magic bullets, dual weilding sawed off 8 gauge shotguns*, and so much dynamite.

Well thats disappointing. I was expecting how to build a hexcrawl in an arid area for a two person D&D game. I need to learn how to spell.

I am not a LoTR fan at all but I am a sucker for starter sets and that one looks fly as hell. Plus free league puts out great stuff.

Looking Good! I like the "shinny math dice". Are you rolling out a starter module or a low cost quickstart PDF? I have long thought that a dynamic starter modules can help launch a system. I wasnt a big 5e fan at first, but the sandboxish nature of Lost Mines made me want to keep playing and...

Is PbtA easy for younger gamers both to play and to GM? Someone above said it can be tiring on the GM, but ive never played it.

Youch !

I don't hate the idea of expensive components, playing aids, expanded content, and luxury add ons for adventures. But when the adventure is just a so so middle of the road nothing special effort like RotFM then its kind of silly. Its like speding a lot of money to add offroad accessories to...

Maybe a wat to pick your genre, before you pick your role? Lots of scrolling to get through the options.

The artificer class was a reprint, multiple of the subclasses were reprits (off the top of my head, oath of glory, blade singer, spore druid), patron rules (as you mentioned), side kick rules, spells from SCAG, probably more. So lots of the crunch. I get that some people dont have those books...

2e as an edition ran for 11 years, was a well thought out buisness decision to try and make a more user friendly version of the game that was still compatible with 1e, and produced some of the fan favorite content that players still ask for. How was it largely a failure?

I don't really trust "professional" reviews of rpg products I am sceptical that they probably got a review copy and are trying to stay in the good graces of the companies that feeds them these books. Add in a lot have affiliate links to the products and its hard to know what is business and what...

I am firmly in fudging is bad. Passionately to a point its hard to type a comment that stays within bounds. So I will just say sure it can be scary to head into the unknown that randomness brings but these are games about adventure.