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I 100% agree. Since they are happy to kill some canon, it'd be great to roll back away from the Faction War and post-FW garbage and really lean into "here's how to do a citycrawl in a really bizarre city full of portals, and here's a bunch of really, really solid factions, locations, and...

In a way, the announcement of the form-factor for Planescape coming this close to the release of Spelljammer means they likely don't have a lot of room to play around with formatting. I'm seeing a lot of complaints about SJ just being too short, and so at best we can hope they up the page count...

This is what I use, with very minor tweaks to the event die tables. They are close, but definitely not exact. Movement speeds are much more 5e and flexible (multiple paces), and the event die (or "loaded encounter die") is incorporated as a major focus.

I was burnt on 5e, so I skipped LU. This book has reignited my interest, and now I'm thinking I'm probably in for the whole line...

Planar Compass volume 1 has an awesome psionic system for OSE AKA BX.

Same, though it took me longer. I now find the minutia of 1) remembering the corner cases in various procedures -- which themselves are opaque as it is, because they aren't spelled out in an organized fashion without flipping through a half dozen pages across 2-3 books -- and 2) the prep of...

This is such a great release. I like Pathfinder Pawns more by a hair, but if I didn't already have a gajillion of those, I'd pick these up in a heartbeat.

If the effort was made to make Castle Greyhawk a really solid puzzle dungeon, I could see it working. That's my biggest wish, and also something that I think is fairly unique and has a lot of fertile ground, especially with WOTC's resources. They didn't do anything "new" with the castle part of...

I've done it. I often use it to show the bad guy's POV, with the players running lackeys or minions. It's a little hard to find a good beat to conclude on that isn't a TPK or complete campaign spoiler, but beyond that, they are great for learning pacing and showing the Big Bad off early on.

There's a Cortex Plus hack that's perfectly compatible with Cortex Prime. I'd do some things differently, but it's a great start. https://samhaine.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/camarillaville-part-1/

I feel like you could remove the "squares you threaten are difficult terrain" part of Guard Stance and it becomes a little less OP and diminishing the Sentinel feat. Is there a use case I'm not thinking of that calls for it creating difficult terrain?

I'm reading Goblin Quest by Jim C Hines and it's about as D&D as it could possibly be.

You seem to like medium crunch games, so would 4e fit the bill, where every super is a solo boss? Strike! is a great slightly more narrative 4e offshoot that would be excellent for this, as well. The book is organized bafflingly strangely, but it's a great system that can certainly do...

If it helps at all, the Demiplane implementation of the existing characters adds all of the relevant Power rules immediately after the character sheet, so it's much more complete. These character sheet previews are simply the base stats plus a list of the powers in their power set (which you...

Definitely advancement. It's great for some games but not for all of them, yet it's way too prevalent.

I didn't run published D&D adventures for the first 20 odd years I've been gaming, just stole the maps or a plot point here or there. Didn't miss it then. I then spent about 10 years solely trying to run published D&D adventures. It was extremely difficult to change my ways (significantly...

Seconded. I knew almost nothing of Acq Inc before the book, and still have zero interest in watching live plays for it and all that, but the book is solid, the rules are fun, the writing's amusing, and the adventure's pretty neat. I've used parts of the adventure in a few different sessions now...

It looks exactly like ALIEN. And I think that's perfect!

Weirdly, both this Marvel game and Renegade Studios' Essense20 system did exactly that.

Thanks for the review. Looks like they are already releasing resources and errata, which suggests they are really on top of this playtest!