Recent content by mearls

I haven't run the content as written, but the maps and components make it a great resource for running games on D&D Beyond. I run short adventures in a West Marches style campaign and the cave maps are easy to adapt. I used cave B as an old alchemist's lair with a well that slowly created...

Yes! Think of any other game product where the largest number isn't the latest, greatest, and the one you should buy if you are just getting into a game. It makes sense for novels, but in gaming it's a weird outlier.

For people wondering about WotC's attitude toward third party publishers, my experience working with them to bring Cthulhu by Torchlight to D&D Beyond was amazing. They were very easy to work with, supportive, transparent, and had great feedback every step of the way. Every third party...

It's interesting to see how conventions have grown so much since lockdowns ended. UK Game Expo, Gary Con, and Gamehole Con have all enjoyed explosive growth. Gen Con keeps trying to find more space to jam in gamers. I think in-person events would've been a big hit, and plenty of games (like...

Funny you should quote that. I was talking to a friend last night and we tried to figure out what D&D would look like today if they had stuck with the annual stories and events tied to them. The real benefit comes from building paths between expressions of D&D. I vividly remember scooping up...

I’m friends with him on Goodreads and noticed that he has been rating books over there as of a few days ago, so perhaps he is taking time away from the online forums.

Funny, I was just thinking that I hadn’t seen any posts from him in a while. His profile shows he was last here on August 1. Hope he’s enjoying a long vacation.

That's what I think is so clever about this product - giving the deluxe treatment to classic modules means I can use stuff like maps and handouts even if I don't run the adventures in the box. They work with BECMI just as well.

That looks great!

Rich is an incredibly underrated adventure designer. Forge of Fury is one of the best D&D adventures ever, and Phandelver probably has the #1 position in any list.

Regarding the general health of TTRPGs, some rough numbers. I don't have the exact numbers on this PC, so take this as directional. Gen Con is super interesting! Total attendance isn't up a ton, mainly because Gen Con has hit its limit on how many gamers can cram in Indy's convention center...

It depends on how this goes sales-wise and what Chaosium wants to do with CoC, but I'm definitely open to expanding on this.

Thanks! I was planning on using a mechanic like this in Odyssey, so that project gave me a chance to surface some concepts and get feedback before finishing up work on Torchlight.

It's a polymorph effect that you gain at 3rd level. You can still cast warlock pact spells while in the form. At higher levels, you can do classic cat stuff like distract people by being adorable or vex them by... just being a cat, really. I write that as someone who lives with four of them...

I intentionally avoided looking at it. My understanding is that Sandy has the copyright to it, so I wanted to make sure we didn't inadvertently cross streams.