Recent content by wedgeski

This is an important consideration in my games. A random encounter might not tax the PC's, but it can be a delivery mechanism for so much more.

I love good boxed text. It's useful for describing complex locations efficiently, and invaluable for world building.

Not yet, but I hope to this year. The book is great. If you get on with the AcqInc humour, it's dripping with it. Mechanics wise, I'll reserve judgement until I run it!

No, I don't find combat tedious. 5E balances pacing and complexity quite well. If, as the DM, you have the time and energy to enrich the experience with interesting terrain, atmospheric factors, battlefield objectives, etc., all the better. I have also accepted that, at anywhere except the...

We will switch at the culmination of our current campaign.

"Coolness" isn't something I'd aspire to judge at my age, but in terms of the D&D market contracting, I've seen little evidence of it. My LFGS can't restock the D&D shelf fast enough. If there's a competitor to D&D in my vicinity, it's not other RPG's (which you have to visit an out-of-the-way...

Yeah, just ask how old everyone is if you want that information. :) I certainly did watch it in the orginal run in the UK. Loved every second of it.

I'll be gone from D&D the nanosecond it happens.

Everyone in my main 5-person weekly group bought one, a distinct increase from the 2014 uptake!

This makes me think of the old "Maelstrom" RPG (Google: by Alexander Scott). IIRC it had a major herbalism component. One of the first non-D&D RPG's I ran.

Same here. Not to sound like a bitter old man, but I relish the movie theatre experience of my youth. Today, my local chain cinema is expensive, dirty, noisy, stinks of nachos, and appears to want to randomly blow my ear drums out of my skull, depending on the film.

As my group did. The DL series demands a lot of its DM, but it certainly delivers. We still talk about that campaign, over thirty years after we started it.

I'm going to assume the infuriating clickbait thread title was ironic, because you're going to have to do waaay better than that to justify it.

I can report that my local UK FLGS just received a second shipment of alt-cover PHB's. There are 15 or so now, stacked on their D&D shelf.

Baaaack on topic...special edition cover PHB's now in stock at my FLGS, Midlands, UK.