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Not like this (again, seen every episode; set my campaign on Exandria - my players visit those magic shops) - in episode 2 of AU they are getting items every few minutes, but all of the enhancements are very incremental - sometimes mundane items but still an improvement. It feels much like...

Yeah, fighters have incredible damage scaling in 5e 2024. And I think berserserker barbarians math out even higher (not for nova damage, though).

I have also created encounters where staying and fighting was simply not an option. For example, I had one where the party was trying to get an artifact from a bridge in the middle of a lava chamber while the BBEG was coming for it from the other side. But the chamber was the resting place of a...

Excellent overview. Note that with the 2024 rules, monks can (and should) now choose to use dexterity rather than strength for their grapples. Which makes sense; monks should be good at grappling.

I do not remember that.

Maybe in theory, but that's not what's happening in the AP that this thread is about. It's like you're asking me not to believe my lying eyes. I mentioned Diablo earlier, with regards to setting, but another way that the AP reminds me of Diablo is in how many items are being collected by the...

D&D is still something of a mystery and a nerd thing amongst most of my generation (X). And it's like anything else - people are mostly all talk. It's easy to make conversation, but actually comitting to something, especially when you probably don;t really understand what it is? That's hard...

As stated, I’ve watched pretty much every episode of CR, many multiple times, and I’m not seeing lightning fast combat on AU. So I literally timed it, this being a (somewhat) quantifiable claim. Nope, player turns are about the same.

Particularly if it’s a group of inexperienced players, most of whom probably have video game encounters as their primary reference point, I will just straight up tell them when it’s an escape or die kind of situation. My premise is that if it would be very clear to their characters that this foe...

Same - I’ve never paid attention to official D&D dragon design - for me a dragon is a dragon, and either I like the particular sculpt or I don’t. Then I decide how I want to paint it. I also don’t pay attention to any of the lore about colour and alignment and so forth. Dragons are very rare in...

The only one I've looked at so far is tattooed warrior (monk). It is not well designed. The level 3 choices are pretty underwhelming (a cantrip for free and access to a minor ability for a focus point). The level 6 options are all a waste of focus points to let you do stuff that monks don't...

I would argue that the Craig films, while not featuring names as egregious as Pussy Galore, are still pretty sexist. Vesper Lynd is fridged in the first one to provide the basis for Bond’s entire emotional arc, and while a few women gradually gain more agency, particularly Nomi in the most...

I feel that the core concept of Bond transcends misogyny. But if it can't, maybe its time is done. It's 2025 - we've moved past the Hefner era of gender politics.

I like the joke, but I'm gonna use it to suggest that "Bond girl" is a concept that the franchise needs to finally grow past. Unless she is actually Bond. And a woman.

Who is the target audience? I normally just do session write-ups for the players, to help keep us all on top of the story. It's typically 1-2 pages including a few photos or images from the session.

And this is a group of us heading off on a California adventure when I was 21 or so (from top left: sister-in-law, spouse, me (in the stripes), still my best friend (crouching) and brother-in-law):

The same photo I use in my Google ID: me sitting on a dock in Copenhagen last summer (I'm 57 and very proud of the Reed Richards-style grey coming in at my temples; it has been making its way up from my beard for the past decade):