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While I largely disagree with the person you are replying to, I do understand this particular argument. In a world where DnD didn't exist: Matt Colville doesn't make a name for himself through Youtube by teaching people how to run a game better than WotC did. MCDM doesn't earn good will for...

You only NEED this if somehow your enjoyment of the game is directly related to a player base so big that you couldn’t ever meet all of those people given a neat line and a 5 second handshake per person. As Mike said in his video on this recently, you only NEED 4-5 people willing to play a game...

All of my favorite things for 5E are from creators that aren't WotC, and they always have been. Monsters: Flee Mortals and Monstrous Menagerie are fantastic. Items: Really love the Griffin's Saddlebag. Character Options: I'm a huge fan of MCDM's and Mage Hand Press' classes. Adventures: Arcane...

Sarcasm: I keep telling people that every video game could have just been Skyrim mods. Why do people even want to play other games? If you want to play horror, sci-fi, mysteries, survival, cyberpunk, demi-god levels of power, etc., 5E is probably not well suited to what you're trying to...

Were you a patron at the time and aren’t any longer? I got mine that way and similarly haven’t gotten the update, that’s gonna be my guess. EDIT: I can confirm that at least for me, this was the case. Discord mod helped me out by letting me know that those who got the original PDF through...

Here’s a question: I had to stop playing on the PS5 with the last patch because Act 3 was very buggy. Big backstory reveal for my Durge? Hope you weren’t expecting textures to load in or anything! Want to open a door? Here’s 30 seconds of processing time. Party members no longer follow you...

It way easier than most people think, but their opinions are colored by their experiences with other games. “Hey guys, I wanted to try this game Cairn out…” (Cairn is like 20 pages long) “Nah, we’re good.” (Thinking “people are still arguing about rules in 5E 10 years in, I don’t have time...

I adored HAT and would love to see more from the cast and crew.

Into the Odd has sidled along beside Mork, rubbing a tentacle arm.

They're toolkits, not canonized holy texts. If it inspires me, great. If it doesn't, womp, that's too bad, oh well.

I’m not gonna publish a module just to show my work, but referencing what I was talking about above could be a start. :p - Never use paragraphs where bullet points and good word choice will do. This seems standard in most OSR adventures I pick up, though I usually only grab highly regarded...

I just tried to check if the Bundle of Holding with her stuff was still up, but unfortunately it isn’t. Masque of the Worm is really neat, I’m excited to try out Crypts of Azarumme. Secrets of Skyhorn Lighthouse is well regarded, though I haven’t read it yet. Even the Secrets of the Basilisk...

Have you looked at The Arcane Library’s adventures for 5E? They’re put together really well from a usability standpoint. A lot of the best adventures I’ve seen from the perspective of “give me what I need and make it easy to use” come from the OSR. Black Wyrm of Brandonsford is really easy to...

I definitely think there’s a major difference between negativity and critique. Justin’s work usually falls toward critique in my view: definite preference/bias for methods of play that focus on player agency over set stories, but generally fair in that what he takes umbrage with are true...

He’s critical. There’s been a lot of talk in the gaming YouTube sphere lately about review scores and their (potential lack of) worth. Reason being that for the most part, people get angry if you’re critical of thing they like (how can you give this game I enjoyed a 7?!) and spent money on.

I didn’t realize they were so far along already! I was expecting crowdfunding like, next summer maybe. Maybe they’ll be crowdfunding and then finishing up development over X number of months. I think I’ve been spoiled by Kickstarters that have a PDF ready to go the day that funding finishes.

It was wild seeing the brigading going on on r/OSR.

So maybe what I thought was unmentionable actually wasn’t. Yeah, all of these reasons.

I'd rather not support the creator, given various unmentionable reasons.

My read on the BG3 companions is that they're supposed to be filling the role of other PCs at a typical table, not NPCs. PCs having character arcs is kind of a platonic ideal at more story oriented tables, but NPCs taking center stage often feels bad.