Recent content by Ringtail

Oh, very cryptic. Very exciting. I know some CR fans are a bit upset by both the DM choice and change of setting, but I couldn't be more excited. I want to see Matt get those wonderful character moments like all his players do, and get them immortalized in fan art.

I hate digital exclusives, especially when you have to buy the overpriced "Ultimate Bundle" to get it. Feels like all the worst things about the EA and Ubisoft business model for video games, but now applied to my favorite analog hobby. Not surprised, just disappointed.

I wonder if this means Hit Point Press is moving away from D&D? It certainly seems like all the largest 3rd party publishers are starting to distance themselves from the brand, or build their own games.

What's interesting is I feel like CR didn't quite used to be this way. I mean, they've always been really role-play heavy, but I found in C1 and early parts of C2, the players were pretty attentive and on-point with their characters. C1 in particular feels like they're playing D&D and not...

They're certainly keeping themselves busy. Curious to see what they produce. Dispatch looks fun.

Yeah Matt likes his sci-fi stuff. That AD&D Barrier Peaks type vibe is pretty on brand for him. For example, in his chain of Acharon game they spent a significant amount of time on the astral plane (with background music created by modular synthesizer) and in another one (Dusk I believe) he...

The stuff like this is why I'm so burned out on D&D YouTube, actually YouTube in general. Its just exhausting and disingenuous.

I've never done literally no prep before, but I think I could. I've run enough low-level adventures that if a bunch of friends asked to play D&D I could probably improvise a session with 2 - 3 fights, some RP and a trap and treasure without cracking open a single book. I'm not sure its...

I can't believe we're still talking about the Rogue's weight negatively here. When I first saw the Fallbacks cover I never once even considered her weight, nor do I think we need some magic justification why a big woman can be stealthy.

Mouse Guard I think is based on Burning Wheel and the comic book of the same name. Mausritter also started as more of a zine/phamphlet style game, and later got a fancier box-set with a hardcover, but I think it was always based on Into the Odd.

I've been calling these "Oddlikes" I like Mausritter.

I know it probably irritates the DoD purists, but Dragonbane absolutely scratches a "D&D but simpler" itch for me, so the lack of a Priest/Cleric/Etc is notable to me. Third party has got me covered though. One of the issues of Dragonzine has a Cleric type class with unique spellcasting that...

Is this the version from Free League? I played Cubicle 7's Adventures in Middle Earth and thought it was thoroughly mediocre. I'm interested to hear if FL improved on it at all. In particular, AiME classes were just 5e's with the magic removed (like some bad homebrew), so the "Fighter,"...

Tragic, that sounds equally unappealing to me. 😅 I don't plan on forking over a lot of money for this game either though. So it depends on how much they price it.

Might check this out. I played the first one last year (got in a Humble Bundle with Baldur's Gate, Planescape, etc) and thoroughly enjoyed myself, despite it being... the way it is. I've been curious about NWN2, but as far as I can tell prior to this version the only way to get it now was on...