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I mean, the first thing they should do is level up! Faced with their first serious foe, they draw deep on their selves to rise to the challenge. Or some such. I worry smacking underlevelled characters with a CR 5 beastie might end up as an anti-climax, particularly if you yourself recognise...

It isn't (in the UK). Wuh-stuh-shuh.

Me too. I love the idea of occult Americana. Unfortunately I am torn by the fact that I love the Cypher system but feel it is a rotten choice for this particular subject, the (in my opinion) weakness of Cook's ability to adapt his work to other uses (for reference, the 5E Numenera conversion...

I grew up down south, not so far from the improbably named Stiffkey (Stoo-kee, naturally). A useful shibboleth for spotting them from ‘furrin parts’.

I’d like a simple, elegant generator to procedurally create basic dungeons on the fly. Need a bandit cave? Place down 4 playing cards to represent a 4 room dungeon in a ground plan of your choosing, flip them over when the party enters each room and reference the book to find out what is in...

I really like these monster booster packs. I wish they’d been a thing for longer, as a Ravenloft one would’ve been ace. A few unique Dark Lords, some of the missing monsters… perhaps they’ll revisit the Mists again in one of these? Either way, good stuff.

The Enemy Within for 1e Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Got as far as Shadows over Bogenhafen/ Death on the Reik. I definitely hope to run some version of it one day, though I wasn’t really a fan of the later parts of the campaign when I read them later on.

This absolutely baffled me, too. I like fluffy, open-ended abilities, but even I am not a fan of the current Divine Intervention and it seems pretty much the same, despite the whole 'Let's not make abilities GM dependent' conversation. I had a Cleric player in a campaign who managed to roll low...

I have both Castle Amber and Expedition to the Barrier Peaks. They are handsome, weighty tomes with useful and practical additions and adaptations given as well as the original texts (sometimes to the point of redundancy). The only slightly wonky bits are that some of the 5e conversions aren’t...

I bought Radiant Citadel on a whim, because I like the anthology style collections like Yawning Portal and Saltmarsh. I've mentioned previously that I see the Citadel like the Citadel in Mass Effect - strange, unknowable alien tech (magic!) left behind for adventurers to pick over, and I feel...

“I’m that DM that shamelessly hijacks my players’ explanation for what is going on because it is substantially better than my own”

Don't forget the vocal subset of casters who think Blur is better.

It must be horrible liking something so much that you have to hate it.

As you say, other systems handle it better (in both our opinions, as far as I can tell!). At my table, when I DM, D&D is 'what myself and my players enjoy', not 'what is written in the DMG'. I suspect this is similar for a few other tables as well! I love the weakening of position that Blades...

If there is a dice roll, there are stakes. If there are no stakes, there is no dice roll. As such, a failure always has consequences, because otherwise there would be no roll in the first place. For example, I wouldn’t make a player roll to pick a lock if they were capable and there is no risk...

Apologies, I’ve not expressed myself clearly. I don’t particularly like priest exactly because it sounds like you need to be an ordained minister that is part of an organised religion (and for me invokes a specific religion due to where I live, which I happily concede is personal bias, the...

I like the idea of the sorcerer having many more low level spell slots, but progressing slower in terms of getting higher level slots. Different to the wizard, and very different to the warlock's 'few but powerful' spell slots. The ability to downcast would fit that really well. You're all...

I am not a massive fan of ‘priest’ - for me, it’s like calling them rabbis or vicars, because the word is the word for an ordained member in a specific real world religion. I’d prefer a term that relates to faith or devotion that doesn’t invoke either Father Ted or a need to be part of an...

We enjoyed the sandbox hexcrawl - it was the clunky marriage to a strategic ruler sim we found less enjoyable. When we discussed whether or not to continue playing the series, the only things my players had enjoyed were the things I had put in myself. Hard to discuss specifics without spoilers...

I was running Kingmaker (converted to 5E) when the pandemic hit (and when this was first floated as something people could buy). Nearly three years later, I don't think I will re-up my cancelled order. The group found the campaign as written to be clunky and poorly paced, and while we really...