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I think the things you assign a negative value to coming from the DMG - for example, story arcs etc - have been pretty common I feel in game design in the last twenty years. I dare say any system that gives out XP starting with "One XP for attending the game session" lays the groundwork for...

The thing I love with Dimension 20 is that... the sheer variety of campaign ideas. O, we have a food-based D&D. Oh, we have a game where Americans go to Hogwarts. Oh, we have one where the PCs are parts of the human brain (with Hank Green)

Could always see if you can borrow the one Ken Hite uses on Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff.

I immediately thought of Sandy Petersen's 5e Mythos book where the mi-go brain jar lets you get a second Concentration spell up and going - you cast the first through the brain in the jar, that maintains the first one, and then you fire off the second. Very handy

Add me to the Bad Form and Tacky column. As was said, if this was Chris Perkins coming out and putting out this piece about their product, NO ONE would probably defend him, or say he has the right to do it. They would use it as another way to dunk on Wizards, even if he put in there that it...

I think Star Wars and Star Trek have issues in gaming in that, in the past, they seem poorly able to model things we see that don't get explored enough. I don't think ST seems to have a lot of naval battles - TNG had Wolf 359, or the episode where Data was in command to stop the Romulans from...

I like gems and trade goods measured in gold piece value - a 50gp onyx, a 25gp trade bar of silver - and I like letting players make skill checks or roleplay to increase the values. To me, the one case where making magic items have a static price would be in 3.x Forgotten Realms, where the Red...

Personally, I think maybe going with something with one of the Adept feats might be easier. It'll be easier to manage a fighter who can cast one spell (Shield?) starting out I would think. Or make a dwarven mage? Then he can wear armor and cast spells, as well as have access to some martial...

Reminded me of this:

It seems to me that this is a long standing issue/tradition in D&D-space. I'm thinking back to the old stories where there was a ton of homebrew and people passing on photocopies of the books and putting them in three ring binders.

I think I discovered it in my dad's collection about the same time as Xanth and Myth Adventures, but I'm not sure if I read it before or after I joined a gaming group when I was 13, and one of the players was a high schooler in a wheelchair who was playing Ahira Bandylegs II. So it's real...

Interesting that they review the Sleeping Dragon. The Guardians of the Flame series is one of my favorite series, even though I haven't read it in quite some time. Hard to believe it's This Old, though.

I love enspelled food. I think for candies, they should be quick effects - bonus to the next attack, a breath weapon (peppermints giving you cold breath for example), etc. I think other things that give buffs, like cold resistance, would be more substantial - in a campaign I ran, they found a...

I don't know. When Acq Inc started during 4e, it at least used the business as a framework for why these idiots stuck together.

There's a joke in there somewhere I can't quite put my finger on.

It would be nice to see, but I think the issue is scheduling the players. They are active working voice actors that need to be available for their real job - unlike CR where it was their hobby before it became their second job.,

It's not that Wizards is allergic to good ideas. I learned during the Kickstarter that became Legend of Vox Machina, a single episode - with the players voicing their own characters - would have been $750-800k USD. The KS exploded, and they kept expanding it. It ended up with, I believe, over...

Watching now. I feel this is a good way to leverage BG3's popularity and make people who liked BG3 maybe take a look at 2024 5e that may not have been exposed to it already.

I think we now tend to undervalue people picking up game systems and playing them in ways unintended by the creators. I was born in '74, and I got the Red Box maybe in '83? (It had the red dragon, and the warrior's back to the viewer). We learned the best we could and then did the DM book...

I'm not always a horror person, but I love when it's done right. There are two that come to mind I enjoyed, that I saw on Netflix, and luckily watched during the day. Grave Encounters - for all of its corniness, I think that came from the fact they were modelling those 'ghost hunter shows'...