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Commenting to highlight a few of Arilyn's points; there's something intrinsic when you pick up a physical book, open it up and use it, just like it is when you make the choice to take notes by hand with a pen or pencil, try your hand at standee drawing, or attempt to draw a map on graph paper...

I would consider a high damage reduction of some kind; I have the same sentiment as Morrus in this regard (Doomsday isn't the only DC character that has straight up pummeled Superman). I'd switch Int/Wis, or at least lower Wis. Superman is very intelligent and comes from an advanced...

Reacher likes to do a lot of punching. :ROFLMAO:

Like Zardnaar + few others, I think CR 2 (or broken up among several monsters) is prudent; like a white room & PCs as you described. I could see CR 3, but if I were putting something like this together, I'd advocate for some environment/feature that could be leveraged by PCs to their benefit.

In my campaign, this was resolved by switching to a variation of side initiative. My table doesn't play a lot with the weapon tags.

Briefly places editor hat on: Morrus doesn't mention this here, but what is an exterior change on the cover also affects content in your project e.g. how you may reference the 2024 rules inside. Also, it's not like prior published titles magically update themselves!

Small post to mention this is def. getting a lot of word-of-mouth elsewhere now, more so than with other recent releases by Free League. The two comments I've come across most as to why there's much chatter is : a) the art, b) it's a dedicated setting that harps strongly on particular feels...

I like the cast lineup... should be good given the combination; happy to see Wyll is there along with the rest! Want to express mild disappointment that some of the other actors from BG3 tend to not be brought in as frequently at these larger events that have live play (Halsin, Narrator...

My modest experience with this is that housing (whatever shape it takes) tends to be engaged with more when: Obvious benefits are clear e.g. rather than paying 50 gp each time to utilize your neighbor's Library to take a Research action, you build your book collection and construct your own...

A disaster response party... that's a motif that can be worked with!

Plenty of published sourcebooks already mentioned. Rules/mechanics/procedures for cities that I have fondness for: Downtime in Zyan (Ben Laurence) Sandbox Settlements: Prep, Run and Thrive (elmcat) Relationship Complications (Marcia B.) Swyvers generator for The Smoke (Gearing & Hoskins)...

Echoing above format, non (5th ed) D&D games being played in person, roughly from most popular: Shadowdark Dungeon Crawl Classics AD&D OSE Call of Cthulhu Mothership / Delta Green / Shadowrun 6th ed

If this is something the Shade would do, then it's warranted. You flagged it to them ahead of time. What opportunities come out of this at the table, is what will matter most.

Obergruppenführer John Smith: " ...See, now you're some place, where good people actually look out for one another. I'll see you tomorrow." Juliana Crain: "Okay. Thanks." (pauses) "Wait. What about the key?" Obergruppenführer John Smith: "Oh, there isn't one." (smiles) "No one locks their doors...