Recent content by Uta-napishti

@Morrus Your link is broken: "http://each adventure (excluding the core rules) is designed to be played as a one-shot or a short campaign" Here is the real link: Awfully Cheerful Engine

Yes, Godsbreath was great, San Citlan also, and some of the others. They all feel rich, fresh, and about the right size and resolution for a campaign. Ironically, the named Citadel itself, portal to all these places, was the part that left me somewhat cold. Somehow tossing all these cultures...

Thanks WoTC for (apparently, on the 22nd) keeping their promise. We have to recognize when they do right by the community. Big props to the folks internally who have kept fighting for this!

Yes, reading Tolkien is a breath of fresh air. His loving descriptions of the landscape and the little struggles and triumphs of the characters moving through it will literally make you want to drop everythng and run wilderness adventures. His hobbits and his Shire of course are the reason the...

Dear Jeremy, Thank you for your development and long stewardship of the rules of D&D. You did a good job! I'm sure you felt the weight of responsibility as everything you said for long years was parsed and sifted for clues for this that and the other. Thank you for the high standard you set for...

I have a similar approach to @el-remmen . I just trim off species that don't fit the theme / history of the world for whatever reason. There is then a list for players to choose from. I will negotiate if someone really wants to play something that isn't on the list. But we have to find a...

Ahoy Chris, Thanks first for for all of the great stories over the years! Perhaps even more important, thank you also for your focus on mentoring and supporting a new generation of game masters as they learned their craft, from your old blogs to the 2024 DMG. I for one am excited to see what you...

True, you did! My value add was just the link, I guess. Didn't mean to grab credit for first post, just to give folks a way to learn more. In my defense, if you look back in the thread more than a few pages, I was predicting Discord being under pressure to make money and specifically calling...

And right on time, here we go: Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June

Kelsey is a class act, and a force for good in the industry, and I can only wish her all the success in the world! One small niggle... I wish there wasn't forced duplicated content. Despite the large acknowledged content overlap between Zines 1-6 and the new bound books, there isn't a pledge...

Excellent point on the voice / video channels -- that is completely non-trivial to do yourself on the web as you need pretty beefy machines / fat pipes on the server side. Definitely want to use a service if you are more than a few people chatting. Setting up a text chat on the other hand for...

Some thoughts on (what we know about) the new starter set: Cards: Putting together characters from cards is brilliant. It seems like a way to really speed things up as it avoids copying things onto a character sheet and avoids pages of character options in a rulebook. The cards that make up...

If you have the desire and skills to run web servers and find nurturing and policing a community fun rather than a burden, then indeed, hosting your own platform can be smart. Lots of people don't have the desire or ability though,and are better off paying to support a service that will...

Folks don't even think about Discord as Social Media, as it has settled into a niche much much more like old fashioned Forums, but as a free service, and with a global login/account rather than individual self hosted software with individual accounts. I definitely expect Discord investors to...

Dear folks locked in the titanic, yet petty death struggle about the quantity and quality of errata: As this thread falls, trailing a ragged grey smoke into the trashheap of history, please reconsider how you are investing the few precious hours we all get to spend on this earth. Go sketch a...