Recent content by Lazybones

I watched about an hour of it last night. I thought that the announcements/ad piece at the beginning felt like they were trying too hard, but I enjoyed the funny self-referential dig in Sam's piece ("Why aren't we playing Daggerheart? That seems like a bad decision..."). The show itself is much...

Another vote for the 3e setting book. That volume pretty much turned me into a Realms fan (that and some of the novels). I downloaded a bunch of the 2e stuff that was posted for free on the WotC web site but I didn't like the design, art, I don't know, none of it really grabbed me. I can't...

Chapter 5 It didn’t take long for Rav to scout out the lower ward of the keep. The elf slipped through the crowd like a shadow, not doing anything to draw the eye or stick in someone’s memory. His clothes were plain, his sword and dagger strapped to his thighs and remaining almost hidden under...

Based on what I've seen of Brennan's DMing (both with Calamity and D20), I will give him the benefit of the doubt. I stopped watching C3 about halfway through, but I'll start with this one tonight and see how it goes. I think the new format adds some interesting possibilities.

Been looking forward to this. The preview images shared so far look great, and they have some great guest voice actors lined up. This was the first Critical Role campaign that I watched "live," and even though there's a lot of filler content over the course of the campaign, I really enjoyed it.

Chapter 4 Folgar stood in front of the smithy, listening to the sounds of activity coming from within. Heat poured out of the interior, and the dwarf could feel himself starting to sweat a bit under his layered robes. The frequency and intensity of the strikes picked up; whoever was working in...

Chapter 3 Leana adjusted the shoulders of her robe, though the garment didn’t really need fixing. It was strange how even after just wearing her armor daily for two weeks, she felt almost naked without it. Her hand traveled to the sigil she wore on a thin chain around her neck, and she...

Chapter 2 “Mister? Hey, mister!” The voice jolted Grimdark out of his reverie. He looked around for the speaker, but didn’t see them at first. The inside of the barn was a bit dark with the keep’s outer wall cutting off the sunshine, but he could see a wagon half-loaded with hay a few feet...

It’s been about six years since I lasted posted a story here. This one is like most of my past entries in the Story Hour forum in that it is a fictional writeup of a playthrough through the adventure in the newly released 5e 2024 Starter Set. There are no players; however, for this one I am...

The final passage in the keep booklet says, "If you wish to advance these characters beyond level 3 and create new adventures for them, you need the core rulebooks... [lists them]"

The Keep section put me off a bit until I realized that this was the intent. The mini-quests there struck me as a bit simplistic but they are in line with what you might see in a video game like Baldur's Gate 3. I like the way that they fleshed out the NPCs on the cards with some quotes and...

It seems like it would be fairly easy to create a character card for another class. For a ranger, all you'd really need would be a few more spell cards. If WotC doesn't do it, someone else will.

I've gone from vaguely curious about this release to a definite purchase. I'm already running three 5.x games so I'm not looking for new players right now, but I'd like to have it in case any of my non-gaming friends ask about D&D. This also seems like a good box to bring to a (generic) gaming...

Darkness is a choice. A -5 to Passive Perception is a significant penalty, especially in an area where there are traps or monsters lurking. I have had all-Darkvision parties sometimes pull out a torch or carry the light cantrip just for that reason alone. On food I mostly agree, I don't...

According to Amazon, there are nine of the double-sided maps (so 18 maps total). The keep and wilderness exploration maps are on opposite sides of the same sheet. Several of the wilderness encounters do use the same map; I've seen at least 3 different examples of those in the preview vids, along...