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It would’ve been cool if Phandelver and beyond was fleshed out as a local setting, and then chapters featuring different genre-takes on the same setting. It seems like even WotC realized that the psionics and body-horror themes of Shattered Obelisk are a major break with the tone of LMoP...

It’s the same ruleset, just tweaked to remove OGL content. But it should be fully compatible.

I see what you’re saying here and agree that 5E has been a runaway success because of a number of factors. But (controversy ahead!) I strongly believe that the 5E ruleset is, at best, a mid-sized factor in the explosion of popularity for D&D over the past decade. I truly believe the biggest...

Fully agreed. Dragon of Icespire Peak was definitely a less cohesive, less complete adventure than Lost Mine of Phandelver, but it did flesh out the same area to an extent. But when I previously suggested that this new product should integrate both and make a thorough mini-setting of the...

Fair enough! I guess I’m hoping for suggestions and solutions

This thread has turned into talking about “Where did that hydra come from?” and “This map doesn’t need a key!” for so many pages that all the other criticisms are being drowned out. Personally, the point from the review that concerns me the most is that the new content isn’t integrated in an...

You’re right, PotA is basically “One Huge Dungeon” (well, 13 large dungeons all directly linking to each other). But that fact by itself is compounded a couple of ways: 1) it’s an elemental adventure, so a lot of the enemies are the same flavour in each segment, which gets repetitive; and 2) 5E...

But in a wizard hat or Viking helmet

That’s true. I actually quite liked running Elemental Evil/Princes of the Apocalypse BUT by the end we were all finding it pretty tedious—lots of colour-coded dungeon crawling there. My favorite parts were all custom segments I wrote for my party, not written into the module. Overall that module...

Definitely not anyone I blocked, I checked and my blocklist remains empty. Must be someone blocking me. Well shucks, thanks mate! You too! I’m gonna be riding that compliment all day. 😃

Ahh thank you. That’s disappointing. Genuinely unsure what I must’ve said to offend someone so badly as to earn a block. (I’m guessing this person must be fairly active in this thread given the number of places that seem to be missing something.)

(Sorry to interject, but who are you replying to? Idk maybe the page isn’t loading correctly for me, but I can’t see a quote in your comment and it doesn’t seem like you’re replying to the comment before. Just curious, sorry!) EDIT: There are other comments that seem to be missing quotes too...

I’m one of those people who generally considered Tyranny of Dragons to be “the worst”. But to be more accurate, I actually felt that adventure has an awesome ending but starts out weak. My main complaint was always with Horde of the Dragon Queen (the first half of the adventure), partly because...

Thanks for sharing this! Lots of excellent context.

Who here is doing that? Personally I don’t care about several of The Alexandrian’s points, including the hydra. However, I do care a lot about how well-integrated the new content is with the old content, so this review is extremely useful for telling me how badly the new enemies are integrated...

Well, if merely “putting adventure ideas out there” is their goal (and I agree with you that it isn’t), then WotC is choosing a very inefficient format to do so. They could put a lot more adventure ideas in a much smaller, less expensive product.

Add me to the list of folks who didn’t know this and are very curious for the details

Idk, based on the quality of Magic cards I’ve seen coming out of packs, these look they were made by the MTG team. (And Magic players apparently just eat it up anyway because addiction.)

No, it’s a pretty massive redo of 5E. There are new classes, almost every subclass is totally new, there are piles of mechanics in every class that are totally new in A5E. There are whole processes within character creation that have no analogue in 5E. The page count is, what, double, I think...

Triumph! A critical success for this hobby!