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I ran most of Bridge Nine for four people with no Cosmere knowledge yesterday. I’ve read up to Oathbringer in Stormlight Archive but am no expert, and my introductory “these are the unusual things about Roshar” was a bit confused and disorganised! But the players had fun, I think, and I enjoyed...

AL has the benefits and drawbacks of any ten-year campaign which doesn’t retire any adventures and allows characters to continue indefinitely. It has some very dedicated players who enjoy the experiences it provides, including playing their carefully crafted characters. But it’s difficult or...

Adventurers League still exists. New adventures are community-created via the Dungeoncraft programme, with quite tight restrictions on available rewards, use of resources for monsters etc, or by the Premier Organiser conventions which are still interested in creating for AL. As is basically...

How does this Dragonborn lore fit with Ashes of the Tyrant by Erin M Evans? There’d been very little discussion of post-Sundering Dragonborn culture and organisation until then, and it set up some interesting elements, I seem to recall.

It's very new, and at the moment it's very much about conventions which have run a lot of organised D&D having a new thing that (probably) suits their organisations better than the AL they've been running until now. So it's only significant for Gen Con, Gamehole, PAX, etc attendees right now...

Did you find it? I think you have to go to 'Universe', then choose the setting/game-line. There'll be a row of products towards the top, and when it's unlocked for you the three-dot menu will have a Download PDF link (where PDFs are available).

There's a great story/RPG podcast which uses Cortex Prime to frame things: The Tide It's one player and one GM, and uses the mechanics quite sparingly as the performers are accomplished improvised storytellers, but Cortex is the basis for resolving uncertain outcomes and providing mechanical...

Slow Horses is amazing, though not a traditional mystery/cop show. I recently watched Ludwig: David Mitchell playing an introverted puzzle setter who pretends to be his police detective twin brother to investigate his disappearance. In a similar gently unusual/comic/British vein, Magpie...

It's a long way from D&D, but there are gamified character-driven story-writing games, like Storium - the Online Storytelling Game (Which I backed on Kickstarter but had forgotten about until this thread!) I could imagine games with scene-wide mechanics (like 4e skill challenges...) which also...

Not at all campaign or sharing level. Each player can select what is available to their character. But those selections are more granular than they’ve been before. You can turn off third party content, for instance. It’s not as helpful as it could be as you can’t select individual books to...

They recently changed the rules sources options on the first page of character creation, so there's more control over what items a character can choose from. This really helps, and means you can do PHB 2024-only if you want. I think there are some 2024 rules elements which aren't supported yet...

I don't really play MMOs, but this is an interesting comparison and opens up the discussion of 'what limits on using the most powerful powers every attack, or every encounter add to the fun of the game?' Clearly in both MMOs and combat-heavy tabletop games, a significant part of the tactical...

Maybe it could have a character/group backstory mini-game, with a guide to creating the state of the world and what the characters did as lower-tier adventurers. That could set up the nature of the power the PCs now wield, and the various organisations they may have annoyed in the process of...

This game has a name and a teaser trailer now: Demeo x Dungeons & Dragons: Battlemarked

Are there two slightly different discussions happening here? There is a wide range of play activity which is encompassed in 'roleplaying game' - as noted, that could run almost from roleplaying-only collaborative fiction-writing in forum games to I guess something as game-only as Gloomhaven...