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Byzantine politics was actually not that complicated or baroque, it just looked that way to the Western Europeans at the time used to relatively basic levels of bureaucracy. But you could certainly have scheming eunuchs and nobles if that would add fun to your game. Instead of Theodora, have...

I am with the OP. I started with 1st edition AD&D, but bought very little beyond the core books after that. With 5e, I have bought most (but not all) books, and can see myself continuing to do so. I even started listening to Critical Role after the most recent book announcement! It was something...

Heart: The City Beneath by Rowan, Rook and Decard. Spire was just brilliant, and I can’t imagine it’s dungeon-crawling cousin is going to be anything less.

Storybrewers did the truly excellent Powered-by-the-Apocalypse game Alas for the Awful Sea, which I backed. That Kickstarter ran super-smoothly and delivered on time, and I don't expect this one to go any differently. They also seem like genuinely good and nice people! All that meant that I...

I'm really excited about this. It sounds like it is going to be an absolute blast to run.

The WOTC model is pretty much exactly the same model as I use in my own work. My organisation publishes resources. Core resources are developed in house by my staff, but we bring in external experts for the more specialised stuff. But we don't just ask them to write them in whole-cloth...

Where are you Mach1.9 pants? I am in Wellington and am dithering about whether to invest or not. At the moment that shipping is a big deterrent to me jumping in.

I tend to use the Book Depository a good deal, because I live in New Zealand and they essentially charge nothing for shipping here. They broke the embargo for the Starter Set, but their website currently tells me that they don't yet have the PHB in stock. I had kinda wondered whether the...

I am responding to an oldish post here, but I just spotted that the local distributor here in New Zealand (PixelPark - sorry that I can't link) is advising retailers that the Starter Set will be available for distribution from 15 July. So if you have a FLGS or local boardgaming store then it...

I have played through most of the large campaigns. I have to say that the "classics" are mostly showing their age. "Horror on the Orient Express" is a literal railroad, and while "Masks" is great - the vibe is more pulp than horror. "Tatters of the King" was a complete revelation for me. I...

I have to say I am not a fan of Auckland. Mainly because it is one of those cities that is more a collection of seperate communities than a single cohesive whole. What that means is that you have a range of quite nice places spread out over a vast area, with a big vacuum where the centre of...

This is exactly as I see it too. If you were watching an action movie would you think it "unrealistic" if the hero used exactly the same spinning sweep move three times on the same opponents and got the same result each time? That would certainly blow my suspension of disbelief. I would also...

I wrote a review of it about a year ago. You can find my review here. I thought it was a particularly unhappy book, but it is well written and does have some interesting parts.

Yeah. This has got to be one of the sillier complaints I have heard about 4e. It strikes me as being almost a quote from Wired's mock "if nerds talked about cookbooks" thread. Does the OP really think Wizards are trying to define what "fun" is? Might they not, perhaps, just be providing some...

Hi Pukunui, I think you might be able to do better than that if you call Amazon directly. I am in Wellington and was in the same boat as you. I had already emailed Amazon before I got the second "shipping delayed" notice yesterday, so decided to stop sodding about and rang them. After a very...