Recent content by Paul Farquhar

That’s not really an answer as to the “why”. Giving the players multiple characters to control slows the game down horribly. Running multiple characters in 5.5 is a lot slower than it was in 1st edition. Even unleveled commoners and their pet gerbils have proficiency bonuses of +2 in 5.5.

Or maybe the military don’t swear any more or less than any other profession, and it has more to do with socio-economic background. My take on that trailer is that Hal is an ignorant thug, and not a character I find appealing. If that is the intent, and to make Jon clearly the good guy, then...

It’s probably my favourite MCU film, I didn’t find it boring at all. 2 was also good, despite the change in tone. 3 and 4 where appallingly bad.

There was a Traveller RPG in the early 90s.

And I wonder if the WotC CEO has stopped beating his wife? Scurrilous rumour mongering is obviously scurrilous. Do you need to borrow a dictionary?

I don’t. I can see for myself when something is well off target, and I like to think the people who work at WotC are at least as capable of that as I am. Sure, it’s not impossible that WotC put out a steaming pile of garbage, but their track record hasn’t been bad of late. And the vibe the...

Haven’t come across anyone defending them. But the feedback is irrelevant. UA is marketing, not part of the development process. If the WotC developers need a bunch of amateurs to tell them when something isn’t right then they should be looking for a different line of work.

I thought it was supposed to be fantasy?

I felt it flagged a little in the second half, and was more Indiana Jones than Sherlock Holmes, but was entertaining old fashioned pulp fiction overall.

I don’t think we have any real idea as to how long Deadfall will be yet, so can’t say if it’s better value than dragonheist. Forge of the Artificer was 112 pages, exactly half as long as Dragonheist.

I was wondering about the significance of the dots. That would be CR 14, so suitable for party level 10.

If you read it and you are familiar with the setting you will know what was wrong with it.

I don’t know if there is any official lore on this, but my headcanon tells me they are hatched as adults and neither grow nor age.

Did you read it?

It just needs to cook for a little longer. Remember that UA wasn’t very satisfactory.