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The Grishaverse (Shadow & Bone).

Most of the time we use point buy. The only roll for attributes method we use is where everyone rolls a set of 6 attributes and the group chooses which set everyone will use (sometimes the DM has veto power). So everyone is working with the same set of numbers. I have been in the situation...

The 5E core books were very good but the first few supplements (Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide, etc.) were rather lacking. Starting with Curse of Strahd and Volo's Guide to Monsters in 2016 I noticed a definite improvement in quality. For the next four years I bought and enjoyed many of the 5E...

I think it will be like 3.5 was for 3E.

LOL that is too funny. They should get Chris Geere and Aya Cash (who played a great supervillain on The Boys) to star and call it You're the Worst: the Dragonlance Chronicles. I would be okay with Laurana starting off unlikable. Her transformation from sheltered, spoiled princess to powerful...

I'm most interested to see how the series treats Raistlin and Kitiara as they are the most morally problematic of the main characters. There's a wide range in how they could be portrayed and still remain true to the source material. Raistlin's slow descent into evil over the course of several...

I am happy and relieved they made a good movie. Based on both the critics' reviews and audience reviews, the large majority of people who saw D&DHAT enjoyed it. They created something I could see myself occasionally rewatching years later for fun. Sometimes good quality films don't find a mass...

I saw the film a second time this weekend with a friend who has no experience with D&D but has taken one or two film classes. She enjoyed it and had no trouble following the story. She was struck by how high-magic the world was and the quality of the special effects. Doric was her favorite...

Yes, I agree. While overall I look back on 2E less fondly than 3.X, 2E was superior in terms of lore. I kept a number of my 2E lore books. The only 3.X lore book I kept was the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting by Ed Greenwood, Sean K. Reynolds, Skip Williams and Rob Heinsoo.

Faiths & Avatars by Julia Martin is an outstanding 2E book about the Gods of Faerun. So many great details about the Gods, their relationships with one another, their churches and specialty priests. One example was the book said Talos was courting Beshaba with the hope of controlling bad luck...

I think a large factor was generational. The children and teens who grew up playing D&D in the 1980s and 1990s because middle-aged adults working in media. They advanced professionally to the point where they could create and authorize media projects. And their long experience playing D&D...

The lesbian subtext between Xena and Gabrielle was another way the show broke ground during the 1990s. They helped pave the way for couples like Jesper and Wylan on Shadow and Bone. The queer subtext might seem passe to young LGBT today, but as a young gay man in the 1990s I definitely noticed...

Xena was one of my lifelines in an era when fantasy was considered an unwanted stepchild by Hollywood. It was unusual to see a female antihero as the main character of a TV show in the 1990s. Dana Scully, Buffy and Captain Janeway didn't have Xena's checkered past. She set the table for the...

Another good performance from Michelle Rodriguez is in Widows. Her husband was secretly working as a bank robber with several other men. Then they are all killed during a heist and the criminals they stole from come looking for their money. The story is what happens to their wives afterward. The...

That sounds like something a disciple of Shar would say. ;) It would be interesting to see how her priests/followers would be portrayed in a future D&D film. Her nihilism might resonate with a contemporary audience (Gen X?).

A 2022 study posted on the website for the National Library of Medicine noted that critical reviews do affect box office revenues: Do critical reviews affect box office revenues? The good news for Honor Among Thieves is the reviews have been very positive. Audiences have also reacted...

I enjoyed both seasons of Shadow and Bone on Netflix. If it was turned into a tabletop RPG I want to play a heartrender! :love:

I took a bathroom break when they first arrived at the cemetery and were preparing to cast speak with dead. I already saw this preview clip before the movie and didn't need to see it again.

For me D&D is high fantasy, high magic and a somewhat comic-book level of reality. A 10th level fighter can take out an entire phalanx of enemy soldiers! A wizard throws fireballs and turns people into toads! A cleric calls down miracles in the name of their god multiple times a day! A druid...

I gave it an 8. Going in the buzz I heard was moderately positive. The movie was a little better than I expected and much better than I feared. It was well-cast and accurately captured what a D&D session might look like if it was turned into a feature film. As a dedicated caster player I...