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I’m glad to hear it had fans, I just wasn’t one of them, because to me it was TOO generic and customizable - I never saw anything distinguishing to me, and I think my distaste for the Primordial War multiverse reshuffling was part of it. This whole thing about “extremely dangerous world” is new...

Boy, when I predicted “the end of White Wolf” earlier this week, I was closer than I thought... :-o

In principle, I love Undermountain, and want to introduce my groups to it in the future. In practice, I have concerns that mega-dungeons currently will get very tiring quickly, and my groups won't have patience for them. I think this one solves the problem by having different environments via...

I have nothing to add, other than "thank you for introducing me to anydice.com" ! :)

That is phenomenal to hear. I love that there were almost equal numbers of male and female interested - it really is a different world for RPGs these days, for the better. The DMing is likely to be your biggest problem, it always is -- more Marines than Master Chiefs. :)

I've been eyeing the Eberron guide for a while now, but the 20 bucks was just outside the range I was comfortable paying for an impulse buy (my chances of running Eberron in the next six months are very slim). In the same vein, I have been eyeing a number of the Artificer class takes to bundle...

Awww, darnit... Here I was thinking I was going to escape Black Friday unscathed...

This thought is kind of funny since most of the original White Wolf staff, according to Lisa Stevens, were die-hard D&D gamers in addition to being the "young turks" of White Wolf. She said (in more than one of her "Auntie Lisa's Story Hour" seminars) that one of their crowning moments was when...

To be honest, I found the reason they kept the RPGNow brand kind of flimsy even to begin with, but then I wasn't a vendor, so I have no idea if the "indie" thing ever served a useful purpose or not.

This one, plus Holy Diver by Ronnie James Dio. Basically, anything Dio did. :-)

Every time I read an article about John, I am reminded of Ryan Dancey’s (a polarizing figure in his own right) Internet post from many years ago about the difference between John and “The Wick” - that is, John’s private and public personas. I’m sure he’s a really good designer (he seems to have...

It's funny, but for the past decade or so, the big holidays are for my groups the WORST time to game, because those are the occasions that everyone schedules to spend extra time with family in most of our cases, being largely 40-somethings with kids or extended families. Our typical schedule is...

What makes you think that role-playing won't be incentivized? Sports fans do it now (see the WWE, or the antics of some public sports figures putting on for fans) and should there be a strong enough desire from the customer base, I imagine you'll see it there too. In any event, if it is...

Given what I read of Monte Cook's pitch during the original Kickstarter, I believe a less resource intensive version of the game would defeat the purpose of the game. His original stated intent was to produce a serious premium product, much in the vein of like the TSR boxed sets of old, but even...

Under most circumstances I'd agree, but since we're talking about a random encounter that (if I remember the Martek portion correctly) just pops out of the ground/glass and starts snacking, it should probably be modded in some fashion to avoid a no-win kill-a-character-or-three moment. Now, if...

Plus, multiple tabs (one open to each section you are flipping between) or "previous view", or "split window view." Not to denigrate good old reliable paper (try playing D&D in a power outage with a tablet at 20% power and no battery!) but there are plenty of flippin' tools. (term used...

Cocaine. Mountains and Mountains of Cocaine, which the party has to use climbing gear and tons of willpower to cross. ;-)

That must have been some serious fallout on the product mentioned. I don't follow World of Darkness any more (haven't since the early 2000s, truthfully) and I did catch wind of some potentially poor-taste stuff during the playtest phases through this site, but this recent business sounds like...

Is the Purple Worm in this an important encounter plot-wise, or is it a random encounter? I love Desert of Desolation, but I can't remember specifically right now. If it's a random encounter, I might skip it or substitute a smaller version (maybe a 'baby' purple worm or variant species with a -2...

There's a creature in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes called the Venom Troll that is a CR7 critter that can be DEVASTATING to even higher-level parties if a particular party is very melee-heavy and not ranged-attack-heavy. Every time the thing is hit with damage, acidic pustules pop and damage all...