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The vast majority of my 2e playing years was in Spelljammer games. There was only 1 person ever enthusiastic about ship-to-ship Spelljammer combat, the DM. And one player who went along with what the others saw as a non-D&D diversion. Everyone else either sat around, grabbed a book, or grabbed...

I seem to remember watching a twitch stream of Lord Gosumba where Erik Mona mentioned that the idea of the Isle of Dread appearing in Greyhawk in the Paizo run of Dungeon Magazine came from the idea that Greyhawk places and personalities have been picked over and looted for other settings long...

I’m here for the thought provoking take on Waterdeep. I’ve never bothered to interrogate what is happening there like this. 🤔

You seem to have had the same reaction I did when I stumbled on it, bored and looking for some animation. I came across Arcane right before the third week was released because my news feed is filled with genre news. Suddenly there was this article that this show had some of this highest ever...

Rewatching it I enjoyed it even more. I noticed so many things the follow up rewatchings that had payoff later, or showed extra meaning to events that would happen. Amazing use of “show don’t tell”. Watching the “documentary” of the making on YouTube, “Bridging the Rift” I’m pretty sure they...

Matt Colville once had a Running the Game video up professing his love for Birthright, but I think he must have taken it down. I must say that one of my favorite Dungeon adventures was a Birthright-linked adventure. Seeking Bloodsilver, written by a young Chris Perkins, I filed off the...

With a healer’s kit (or cook’s utensils, if you want this to include tools for prepping freshly killed game), you can assemble automatons from bone, flesh, skin, scales, or chitin. To attach upon the artificer. Take those parts and grow them from the smallest “ingredient” into as much as needed...

True, I have an interior/dungeon in mind.

Yeah, I don’t think I had ever seen that sort of mood or vibe in a D&D cover before, it is very nice.

Yeah. It just does not sell Taladas at all, IMO.

Stephen Fabian’s interior art of the glass skimmers of Taladas. The cover of the Taladas box was dreadfully boring. But Fabian really set the tone for Taladas and this piece of art did its job. So much of Taladas could have used better art, like the gnome citadels of the lava sea, Hithekel...

I love Dyson’s Shattered Tower! I am using it as a pivotal part of my campaign and have modified variations of it all over. But the map I picked is the fabric map of the Tablelands region of Athas. I don’t recall TSR or WotC putting a region map on fabric before but I love that they did it...

I haven’t seen this yet. You don’t know a damn thing about what I like in this but just want to be a drive by crudstirrer. That’s why I was asking the question. Go bother someone else. Mod Edit: Language edit. Leave foul language at the door, please. ~Umbran

You chose to randomly tee off my word choice of “very abstract”, with out knowing at all what I meant by it nor even asking me to expand on what I meant. Then opted to fill in those blanks you saw with bad faith snark that I must have meant I desired a rules-less rulebook. You have no idea...

“If ship rules rules aren’t as complex as Classic Battletech what are even we all here for?” There are times I’m in that mood. during D&D isn’t one of them because I’m considerate of the rest of the players who dont want that.

Is it worth adding Dyson’s plans for his patrons for the Bigjammer? https://dysonlogos.blog/2022/08/17/living-ship-the-bigjammer/

What the heck. 🤣

This actually more or less fine for me as I was afraid they would spend an unfortunate amount of space detailing a ship combat system only fans of Battletech could enjoy. While the rest of the players tuned out for the next 2 hours waiting for ship boarding. I was hoping for a very abstract...