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Goodman was like the least hostile to the OGL shenaginans, and here we have WoTC pulling the plug on the best use of their old adventures. Shame. I’m guessing we’ll see more useless crap like the Against the Giants thing from Yawning Portal where WoTC couldn’t even be bothered to know the size...

I hope so, but I’m sure they will keep getting made. Maybe if they make less money, less money will get spent making them, and they will have to, oh I don’t know, try being creative.

So as a PbtA curious person, I wonder is that common to PbtA games or an artifact of Root being a board game? Cause in cooperative board games, or any board game, only being able to do one of 5 things is common. Lots of stuff you cannot do, as opposed to RPGs where there is much more freedom.

He can be right about Good Omens but wrong about Queen. That said, Queen put out like 6 albums since 1980 and the world wouldn’t be that worse off w/o them. There’s a reason their regard was at a nadir when this review was written, a decade of mostly garbage preceding it. 70’s Queen, sure...

D&D has too many spells. Even just using the PHB Wizard gains access to 34 new spells at level 3, they can pick 2. That’s an absurd amount of new options to choose from. In addition to the lvl. 1 30 spells they Could consider or swap. If you’ve been playing for 20 years, sure, really, it’s a...

It’s no pg wood house, or it is, derivative whatever, not masterpiece

The Guardian article highlighted how boring as shell Good Omens is to randos, none of those quotes were the least bit arousing. I’m with Joe’s review. I know that’s not popular but the books pretend at profundity, and are overrated by genre fans. I allow that others love, but, fine hate me...

So, best 3rd party adventures is tough…but I’ll go with M.T. Black’s Complete Adventures Vol. 1. It was tough because second place was Vol. 2. You should definitely buy both, Vol. 1 is more standard LMoP type stuff, but better, and lower level than Vol. 2, most all for below 5 which isn’t...

I really want to engage on this but darm, why why why can’t people just enjoy playing dnd.

all the people posting before me being jerks I guess don’t play team games.

It means non aggression pact In any game I’ve ever played.

What D&D should learn is ignore everything video games do well and focus on what they can’t do. The lesson from video games is they do tracking arrows, encumbrance, and random monsters way way better, but what they don’t do is ‘I set this NPC on fire and cast fly and take a poop on the...

d&d is about the four people at the table, if their journey was such that they became leaders of armies, then yeah, game does dissapoint in the lack of rules for that. Doesn’t have stuff for general level combat. But that’s not how most fiction goes is it, the hero’s hold the east gate, they...

Love the salt thing, ran into some flavored salt yesterday described as “low in sodium”…only guess on that is that is one serving is like 10% daily sodium or something.

just because it happened to you doesn’t make it interesting

I would argue that it’s more of a pastime than a game. True “games” have built in objectives, like checkmating a king, that you deploy the rules and materials to achieve. I find playing playing Civilization against others or on the hardest difficulties just ruins it for me because all my...

Obviously all tables are different, and so they will have wildly different tones, moods, styles, and whatever. They know this, they embrace this in their books, people read them cursory and call them bland when if you pause and understand their goal, you can see they are trying to lay out a...

Housing, food, and healthcare for everyone in my community. Be nice if the whole world got them, but someone else’s hill. TTRPG issues pale in comparison, not willing to fight or die for them, I get your point but honestly, question is silly for my reality, we play the way or group agrees on...

I was a teenage boy in the 80s/90s so I sort of understand, but If you’re getting your VHS tapes sticky, you’re doing it wrong.

I went with PG but mainly cause of the fact I play with my 11 yr old and he doesn’t have any interest in kissing or such stuff. We’re probably PG13 for language and R for violence, gross deaths are pretty popular in verbal fiction, which is interesting cause kid isn’t at all interested in...