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I think Tasha's the peak, followed by a fast decline.

This line of thinking can savage some of the worst books. Descent into Avernus, for example, is really bad as an adventure, but have a lot of amazing stuff that can be used to play a homebrew adventure. I played for months using the Baldur's Gate Gazetteer alone, it's on point on information...

I think the last PR situation was on brand with D&D. How many times your unaware NPC quest giver hired the party wanting private investigators and got instead barely legal behaviour and unnecessarily violent solutions?

Knights of the Old Republic taught me that all consoles in Star Wars galaxy have an "overload console" option that explodes everything when selected.

Speaking only about Forgotten Realms, 1e is the best edition if you want to start a campaign in a world filled with adventure opportunities and without a huge backlog of "things that happened ten years ago, so everyone would know, but it's nowhere in the books". 2e don't have as many plot hooks...

I heard somewhere else someone suggest that "The Spies" could refer to the scout group who goes ahead to find the Forge first before the entire group lands, in the same sense it's used in "The Twelve Spies".

Fun fact, the Reconquista, the military campaigns the Iberic Christian kingdoms waged agains the al-Andalus used a similar tactic: to secure the frontiers they gave titles and lands on the borders of the kingdoms to accomplished military veterans. When the lands on the Iberic Peninsula were all...

Could you say they were given... keeps on the borderlands?

The solution I find for this problem is doing the opposite: giving plot hooks like candy. You can't have real agency without information, and plot hooks are nothing more than information about things you can do in the game world.

I tend to agree with both definitions.

My back was asking for a break at the fourth hour, I need a better chair if I ever do this again.

I had to check the date to be sure it wasn't posted on the first.

It went well! I think all four objectives were met. It felt D&D enough, even if it wasn't actually D&D; all players could create the characters they wanted to play; nobody besides me read the rules beforehand; and the combat was almost too deadly, but hit the sweet spot. The group was composed...

I like dungeons, not as the sole feature of a campaign, but as an integral, even central, part of it. Dungeons are a great place to place your main conflicts because they are a space where the party can exert all the main pillars of play: of course you can have combat, but you can also have...

My guiding principles as a D&D DM (they are different for other systems): - Always try something new: the two main reasons I say that are: 1. because there's always room to improve. If you're a DM for a long time you acquire some "habits", some ways to run the game that aren't deliberate...

Fun fact: $69,000,000 would be the winning bet if it was about worldwide opening box office.

Pike it, these barmy berks are gonna ruin the Cage.

Although I'm excited to see what's the payoff of this obelisk setup, for me it's kinda bittersweet because I'm a fan of unsolved mysteries in RPG modules. They are wonderful as a device to DMs expand the worlds on their own unique ways. I hope the next edition campaigns have some overarching...

DiTerlizzi recent art looks a lot "cleaner". I like it, but I miss the "dreamlikeness" of 90's DiTerlizzi's art, it fits Planescape perfectly.

I'm betting Vecna will use the Obelisks to "reset" the timeline of all D&D worlds, so the next edition lore can start from a blank state, since RotFM says he used it to erase the Weavers from existence, and you can reset the timeline to before Karsu's Folly with the one present in the adventure.