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Indeed. Also I submit "Drylad" as the term for a male Dryad.

Get Well Soon Darryl! Sorry that this came your way this year. Happy to donate for transportation costs, and glad you are getting on insurance that will help a bit with direct costs down the road. Nowhere has perfect health care of course, but it's a sad pattern to see folks dealing with...

I voted: Dolmenwood (What a labor of love they are completing! I am so excited!) Discworld ( The lightweight system they are adapting for this sounds like it will be lot of fun ) Stonetop ( recently heard about it, looks amazing ) These three other heavyweights in the Fantasy space are going...

It's kind of hitting a grimdark behemoth vibe instead of being a ridiculous pulp magazine rock and role beast. Otherwise it looks pretty solid, if a bit long. One ( extremely ) minor point is that when calculating average damage in 5E, we traditionally take the die size halved plus .5 to get...

Hey, I agree Eberron is the gold standard! Wildemount and Theros I have't read deeply enough to have an opinion. Still I would put the Ravenloft book up there almost with Eberron in terms of sheer amount of play it opens up and feeds. I guess we are pretty off topic for a Chris Perkins thread...

In my second intervention against grumpiness in this thread, I have to say I don't know what Ravenloft fans are complaining about. Strahd is Awesome and Van Richten's Guide is one of the best D&D books I have ever read, full of evocative ideas and wise advice on horror storytelling. A lack of...

Hey @Morrus , can you get this headline corrected please? It's taking down your otherwise brilliant recent journalistic record.

Chris Perkins, if you are reading this, forget the haters, they are the grumpy minority. Thanks for the whimsy, the hard work, and all of the great times! Yes, I'm sure that you are not far away, and are leaving the role in great hands, but still I think it's nice for folks to have a round of...

Hurm..... D&D Beyond is mentioned exactly 0 times in the linked article. This, and the fact that D&DBeyond and Roll20 are strong competitors makes me extremely skeptical that your Journalism Headline Thingie is right.

Sounds heavily inspired by FATE, with "Traits" instead of "Aspects", a Narrative Currency (FATE points or Luck ) and negative Consequences instead of any kind of hit points. However, this system is even even somewhat lighter than a FATE variant, since there aren't skills, approaches or types of...

Never underestimate a random guy on ENWorld

Run it! If they PCs are downed, the Banshees have no interest in killing them. They glide on. They need respect for their torment, and witnesses to spread their story far and wide. It will teach the PCs not to split the party anyway :) And if they resist the wails, it should be an easy...

Yes, there are people who will die on the hill of "unfair to make any adjustments during play" (see Blorb Principles) and there is a certain charm to that defending the "game" part of "Roll"-playing-game. Some even say that it is railroading to make any adjustments to the story to take the...

What I spend my extra hours on now is trying to set up the campaign so that it fits to the characters I have and their goals. That's some thing I can't buy in the store.

About effort level, folks are definitely talking past each other. What do you need to be ready to run a game? That answer is different for everyone. The folks that say "Running a pre-written module is more work" aren't claiming they can produce an equivalent to that pre-written module faster...

You're right about Candlekeep Mysteries sadly.. To pick on one specifically, the adventure Book of the Raven is written like a detailed atmospheric introduction to whatever creepy place the DM wants the party to visit next (Shadowfell / Ravenloft ) but there aren't actually any connections (you...

I never run them, but I buy and read tons of old modules as inspiration for the adventures I make up for my own groups

LOL, Ramaster... Well I dig them! I think that any help players and game leaders get deepening the culture and creative soil of their fantasy world is extremely welcome.

Well, I am myself a publisher who makes money by selling PDFs ...:rolleyes: I am just encouraging WoTC to sell digital PDFs of their core 5E content, rather than leaving PDFs a playground for pirates. I am aware they make PDFs of their < 5E archive and some marginal products, but the only PDFs...

Oh, the 2024 rules will be out in PDF. Unfortunately, WoTC is just deciding they won't be the ones putting it out.