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Give them abilities they don’t have. My baddie MUers can summon stuff if needed. Like maybe they have some Orb that can bring in a Demon. The Monsters Know What They’re Doing is an obvious reference so you know the full potential of your monsters, whether you use or not. I prefer more...

I had the opportunity to do that, spent a couple weeks of evenings plotting out how I’d like to present, all kinds of options and epicness, read all the guides to do it I could find and concluded, combining them is really more an idea that makes a DM happy than players. Makes them happy about...

I don’t think super easy to run is the goal with the Big Book adventures. Dragon Heist has a pretty great 20 to 40 hour, maybe more adventure in it, but you have to find it. Its got everything you need for it. They say “all you need to make it easy to run“ because all you need is in the book...

Level Up is both really different and “fully compatible”. I really suspect anything WotC does will be less of a departure, but way more people will freak out about it. Narcissism of minor differences will run rampant on the internet, most people will acquire the new books at a pace matching...

I hear everyone on LMoP, it’s a very well structured adventure and it showcases a good breadth of baddies that have a reason to be there. It is a great introduction to a bunch of standard DnD tropes, but it’s also trodding very well worn ground. It’s basic DnD done right, but…i guess, yes, not...

If you’ve ever read anything he’s written before, you don’t really need to read that to know what he was going to say. I think his point about the lack of wonder and awe later in the review probably has some merit but it’s hard to know cause he doesn’t care about the book and just went through...

Does no one listen to Dragon Talk? Perkins has repeatedly said when any gap in logic shows up that it was done on purpose, to provide space for the DM and players to imagine their own game. You might not like it, but that’s how it is.

5 seconds in I was thinking you were punking me, 30 seconds later I was omg most awesome thing I’ve heard today…but wtf with the clown suit

It’s pretty good, and very pet shop boys, my dad’s second favorite band after Fleetwood Mac, I’ve never understood him

Are you sure? Seems really passionless, afraid, looking over her shoulder. does she care?

Inspired by Payn’s threads, asking this question. I feel the obvious answer is Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah. So looking for ideas not that. I nominate Man Who Sold The World. Nirvana cover of Bowie on MTV Unpluged. Bonus, worst covers, I nominate D’yer Maker by Sheryl Crow.

It seems like we just keep obsessing on age demographics as if that actually means something. Plenty of teenagers are into dark “adult” stuff. Movies are PG-13 so teenagers can buy tickets for them, a lot of those kids may prefer more sex and more gore. For DnD books they want to be on the...

i’m going to guess Sartre’s relevance tracks roughly equal with The Smiths as it has since the late 80s.

University of Minnesota, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. I was also like half a class shy of a minor in women’s studies, it’s been 20 years, I forget why I didn’t bother with that, think there was some additional bs to the minor I didn’t want to do, also didn’t really care about...

I mean, ask yourself, why do I want these people naked? If you have an answer, ok. The dancing naked in the forest one is tame, I’d show a toddler, dancing naked in the forest is a family safe theme for going crazy and doing witch things. I have no idea why all the archfey are naked. That...

Feels like a good survey question someone that didn’t make a s-post and get on a bunch of ignore lists two weeks ago should ask. Would be curious how people portray d&d governments.

I guess, maybe I’m alone here, but I don’t hide the forms of government in D&D settings. A ”benovelent” monarch who disappears opponents to their rule is pretty common and I portray as such. Do other people portray absolute monarchs as sunshine and rainbows and romanticize them? CRPGs often...

None of them do. But, “I stood up to a tyrant’s agents” “everyone should be free to pursue his or her livelihood” or “ I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves” are just a few traits of a revolutionary, yeah? You’re talking about ends, ends will be player specific but there’s dozens...

So, I know A5e is about more and more rules and options but from a player perspective it can get overwhelming. I wonder if an article on, or system for, translating PC desires into characters would be worthwhile? Like, even regular 5e backgrounds and classes and subclasses can be a bit much...

Curious about that, I’ve run a few funnels and there was none of that.