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The module the 2014 Star Set came with, Lost Mines of Phandelver, is rock solid and a stone cold classic thst is very replayable. The...

I think the cheep and nasty components in some recent boxed sets are likely to put new players off. Making it look shiny is a good...

Yes, very true. Personally, I feel that I'm rather out of touch with the current younger players, but I can still get enjoyment out of...

D&D is in a very different place in terms of cultural penetration and hipness compared to a decade ago: not my job to worry about it...

Yeah, the price seems to be fine. I don't know how it will affect its market penetration with beginners, but - luckily - that's not my...

Just taking the WotC hours of play at face value (since any given group will surely be able to swing that pretty wildly), that's ~$1 per...

This is pretty cheep. Gloomhaven costs three times as much.

Having multi-species parents in the D&D game would have been fine if every single species had that opportunity. It's the fact they...

This go around, the free stuff on Beyond fills that role in the product line.

The price seams reasonable to me. The last couple of starter sets have been ridiculously cheep (with poor quality components to match)...

They gave 40-60 hours even going with the 40 that is 10 4 hour sessions.

Here are the exact stated contents. I also noticed we have what looks like a few new monsters, the Lizardfolk Warden (I am guessing a...

Interestingly, WotC's even going for Small-sized humans. In the new Dragon Delves book, the level 9 adventure includes a pair of elderly...

To be fair, it's clear that aasimar and tieflings can spring from any rootstock, not just humans. That's why they both have the option...

there are no half: aasimar dragonborn dwarf gnome goliath halfling (would that be a quarterling?) human tiefling in 5e24 either.