Recent content by Ringtail

I'm aware, but they don't publish nearly as many adventures in this range. There are some notable gaps in the 1-20 level range. I'd like to see them publish more.

Definitely had a knee-jerk upon seeing this, but honestly the change isn't that big. They've been doing smaller APs for awhile now and while I'm not exactly sure of the rate of release 4 of these a year sounds about right. I'd love to see them release some more module length content though...

I asked about the underlying system on reddit and one of the developers responded. Says they started with B/X D&D and then added more bits and bobs as they went to improve the experience. Probably where the crits came from.

I want to know what West Marches discord's y'all were in. Its something I've always wanted to do but its hard to tell a good game apart from the mediocre ones, especially when it comes to a nebulous "discord."

Generally speaking, you don't end in the dungeon or wilderness, you end the session when you get back to town. If that means ending the session a little earlier or later than normal, oh well, but its up to the players to manage their time. There's also plenty of house-rules for things like...

I've never used the X-Card, but I've had situations where we basically invoked it, just without the presence of an actual card. For example, a campaign my brother ran where one of our party was getting flirted with by an NPC. Another of our player's had a new power that allowed him to see...

Oh I did not hear that about Glass Cannon. That's very interesting. I'm very intrigued.

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...