Recent content by pumasleeve

true as well

I was being a little hyperbolic. basically what im getting at is it seems that the inspiration for new adventures came largely from "lets do 5E version of..." Ravenloft. against the giants, descent into the depths, temple of elemental evil, tomb of horrors... from which we got curse of strahd...

Indeed. 5E had so much repurposed 1st ed material that it could almost be considered an OSR product.

I can definitely see that side of it, for sure

been thinking... this might be a bit of a shock coming from and old school player like me, but im wondering if the way the modern dnd game is played, where its so character or story driven -if it would be better do away with character death. or let the player decide what happens. like, if you...

At least suicide squad gave us Harley Quinn. This move looks like 2000s era cgi effects and a bad script

I think the actual rules of 5E are a small factor. According to wotc data the average campaign lasts 6 sessions. Call me crazy but I think that most of the folks into dnd now may like playing the game, but what they really like is to talk dnd, watch dnd, and basically feel like they are part of...

can you show me the way outside?

critical role is about 25% combat, and more and more games are critical clones from fans of the podcast. 90% is way off

An update on the status of the OSR would be interesting

Ive run several evil campaigns. My only rule is that the game experience remains cooperative and they have all gone fine and been fun.

Or not going sideways from previously agreed upon expectations. For example, (possible spoilers for wotc adventures) your running Hoard of the Dragon Queen. you set the expectation from the beginning with your players that it is a chapter based railroad adventure and they agree that they would...

This makes sense to me. But then I had 2 players that sent me a youtube video from Matt Coleville on "railroading" after one session, so maybe im not one to ask... :ROFLMAO:

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