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Happy with any of them - just advertise it ahead of time. At present, my game is PG-13, leaning towards PG. That's a consequence of the environment in which I'm running, though, rather than a matter of preference.

That one always amuses me - I found HotDQ to be rather better than I'd been led to believe (albeit still pretty bad), but found "Rise of Tiamat" to be abysmal, and not in a good way.

"A Game of Thrones" for me. All of the first three volumes are great, but that's the only one that stands alone. "Tigana" is currently in my to-read pile.

Yeah, I remember those days. It's fair to say that a huge amount of the current 3pp is likewise of indifferent quality. But, as in the d20 days, there are some gems to go along with the dross. The difficulty, as always, is finding them. :) Makes sense. One of the benefits of being a permanent...

Agreed. As far as I can tell, the big lesson Hollywood should learn from all the bombs this year is "don't release films in 2023". It doesn't look like that's the lesson they are going to learn, though.

That's not true, though. Those things just won't come from WotC. But there's no shortage of people producing all those types of material, via DM's Guild, via the OGL/CC licenses, via DTRPG, and so on. The big problem is the sheer volume makes finding the good stuff much harder. (Plus, deep...

I'd rather there not be alignment-touched species, but would rather have plane-touched species (where some of those planes are themselves aligned). I have no particular view on the number of such species - there could be one per plane, one per group of planes, multiple species per plane/group...

Interesting. I had previously heard that the 2nd Ed book sold ~750k copies, 3.0e ~500k, and 3.5e ~300k - so each version sold fewer than its predecessor, but if you count 3.0 and 3.5 as "third edition" then they (just) outsold 2nd Ed. I think the source for this was Ryan Dancey, or it could be...

I was thinking on it some more, and it's entirely possible that NOW's owners have a pre-existing deal with Paramount for an exclusive window on all their films. So it's entirely possible that there is, effectively, no new money at all associated with HAT being there, and that it's "coming home"...

NOW are another streamer, so they'd have paid a good bit more than 5-15 pounds. I don't know how much, but I do know that exclusive rights would have been worth more than non-exclusive. As to whether any spike in Paramount+ subs is worth more than the difference, we don't know. I did say I...

That's good news for me, but I'm not sure it's good news for HAT - it had been on NOW, which obviously meant they were being paid for that. If it's now becoming available in the in-house streamer, that presumably limits the value of the NOW deal.

Two rooms over. :) Back before my gaming was hugely curtailed, it would depend on the length of the game session - when we had games on a weeknight evening, my limit was half an hour each way for a 3-hour game. Before that I used to have much longer sessions on a Saturday, where I would travel...

Presumably, conspiracy theorists in the MCU are convinced that it's all a hoax.

I think you may be a little behind... :)

Agreed. Indeed, the trailers for D&DHAT somehow managed to fake out the audience in a different way, by omitting the character right at the heart of things. I'd be tempted to bring only Hugh Grant back - have him discover something in that prison, recruit a team, break out and go be Big Damn...

That sounds like it could be a cool product, though like many of the volumes it may have struggled to fill the pages with interesting monsters. That said, the MC product line is fascinating largely because it is so flawed, and I'm not sure a rearrangement like the one you suggest really touches...

Best guess is that there is almost certainly plentiful life out there, of which a ridiculously tiny percentage is intelligent, but that none of that intelligent life has ever been here, or will be here in my lifetime. Indeed, given out current trajectory, I'm inclined to think no human will...

Spelljammer confirmed!

We're currently at the start of another wave of automation, where technology is going to render entire swathes of jobs redundant. Basically, everyone who works in a supermarket, everyone who drives for a living, everyone in fast food, and a great many others are suddenly going to find that those...

This is a good point - the players should be aware, at least in broad terms, of how long these things take. They do need to be able to make informed choices along the way. That said... I very much like this. I think there is a strong argument of the duration being at least partly random, and...