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Yeah, I don't think that could possibly be the real number of daily players. Whether it's 8 million total users ever or 8 million active users (however active would be defined) makes a big difference, of course, but either way, it can't possibly be 8 million different users playing on Roll20 on...

Nice to see DSA growing so much on the Roll20 platform. I'm sure German games account for almost all of that growth, but it gives me a glimmer of hope that The Dark Eye might still find a foothold in the English-speaking world.

Holy smokes, I cannot believe the quality and quantity of these illustrations. This book is going to blow the lid off the DMs Guild. If you're still considering doing this, I'd like to encourage it! I'm a professional copy editor, so believe me, I know there's no such thing as an error-free...

Way back when C7 still had the license and were planning their own 2e, they said they would not be updating the 1e books to 2e. But of course, that was the smart thing to say no matter what you're planning for down the road, because you want those 1e books to keep selling. Now that FL has taken...

The KS page says they're also planning a D&D 5e-compatible version (like Cubicle 7's Adventures in Middle-earth), though it will come later. So if 5e is the one system you have time for, all you need do is allow some more of that time to pass.

Wow, you're right. I noticed the one on his website last week while I was looking for some Forgotten Realms stuff. I don't think I ever saw the Cubicle 7 one, and I assumed they were the same. They're very different indeed.

Then you're in luck—sort of. It ain't cheap, but you can get it if you want it.

It was first reported that they'd picked it up only a short time after Cubicle 7 dropped it. My first reaction to the cover was "that really, really doesn't say 'Lord of the Rings' to me." After watching the video, I think I understand what they're going for: the art style is overly reminiscent...

I wish I had extra copies of any of these lying around to send your way, Goonalan! I just remember reading the Sellswords omnibus a year or so ago and being a little confused moving from Servant of the Shard to Promise of the Witch-king, wondering if I'd missed something, and later realizing...

Hot tip: before you start on Promise of the Witch-king, read “Wickless in the Nether,” Salvatore’s short story found in Realms of the Dragons vol. 1. It sets up elements of the situation in that novel. Actually, even if you already started Promise, it might be worth pausing long enough to read...

I clicked option 4, but the truth is I'm a very flexible DM, so option 1 is equally accurate. If I'm running the Forgotten Realms and a player wants to be a vedalken, we'll collaborate to invent something vedalkenish that makes sense in the Realms and doesn't require magic-the-gatheringing the...

That could be interesting—but unless I’m misreading, that’s not the path they’ve chosen. If you’re a dwarf, and you become a dhampir (or any lineage), mechanically you stop being a dwarf for all purposes.

Sounds like the Tasha’s “optional” rules about racial bonuses are no longer really optional: “Design Note: Changes to Racial Traits In 2020, the book Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything introduced the option to customize several of your character’s racial traits, specifically the Ability Score...

Hmmm . . . (Yes, I know most of these are bona fide up-and-comers, and I have no problem with Mr. Perkins having an adventure in this book. It just made me laugh, that's all.)

Candlekeep is part of the Sword Coast Adventurers’ Guide, and (spoiler for a published 5e adventure) . There’s also a truly excellent Candlekeep guide on the DMs Guild. But yes, this is the first official product to centrally spotlight Candlekeep since one of the D&D Next adventures.

I think we're in agreement, then. They can be great if they're cleverly designed, and truly awful if they're not. In that regard, mystery D&D adventures are no different than mystery plots in any other form of entertainment.

I’ve played and DM’d some excellent mystery plots in my day, and not always at low levels. They do have to be craftily designed, though. For example with a murder mystery, either the corpse needs to have been obliterated, or else the victim needs not to be aware of the culprit—or, better, to...

I am 100% there for this—if they’re well done. 17 is also a lot, so these will presumably be short enough to drop into an ongoing campaign without sending it off the rails for too long. But, of course, they would have to be well executed. We’ll see. I am also a big fan of puzzles, but I liked...

This is an odd one indeed. I have fond memories of it, though. By this point in the Drizzt series a formula has definitely been established, for better or for worse (for example the previous novel sticks to the formula and is nonetheless really great; but some of them are very predictable and...

Given the quite cheeky pic Hickman just tweeted out, it seems pretty likely that Manganiello and Sony had a hand in facilitating whatever deal has been struck. This doesn't look to me like a "here's some cash. Go away" settlement (which is what I for one would have expected), but rather a...