Also, one DM's Forgotten Realms can potentially be different from another DM's Forgotten Realms. For instance, I've never used any history like the Sundering, Spellplague or even parts of the Time of Troubles in my FR campaigns. If a player is creating a character based on those events, they're...
IMO, I watched it as a kid when quirky, offbeat sci-fi fantasy movies were kind of few and far between unless it was something like a Star Wars ripoff or a Conan ripoff. To someone who never saw it and comes from a different generation with higher expectations, I can see them bouncing off of it...
The Modiphius campaigns (Odyssey of the Dragon Lords, and Raiders of the Serpent Sea) have detailed player’s guides that really do session zero material well.
Episode 7 thoughts:
So far, from week to week, there feels like there’s a lot happening in each episode. There may not have been a combat in this one, though they’re definitely leading up to one. This was all about the journey and then the stealth-ing around the castle to get close to Casimir...
I think that’s a great assessment. I appreciate the work that both Perkins and Crawford did overall, though Crawford drove me crazy with his Sage Advice “rulings” that I felt were unnecessary at times. I’ll also say that having Wyatt, and new blood like Justice Arman and Makenzie De Armas is a...
Yeah, it’s not because of some inherent failing in the game or because the other games are somehow superior. If anything, there’s more perceived arguments because there’s simply more people playing D&D.
So, I’m not a player who really cares about the strictness of RAW. In a case like that, I defer to the DM, and if I’m the DM, I try to make the fairest most understandable choice I can make - usually benefiting the player.
That’s another inherent risk of digital products. I’m very unlikely to buy a digital-only product for reasons that folks like SlyFlourish have gotten into before.
But is not keeping a public record of the errata capital-B bad? I have a hard time getting worked up over it.