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The Gamemastering section of Dungeon World, followed by Shadowdark, and distantly B/X, and then even more distantly the 4E DMG 1 and 2. Outside of D&D-derived games, Star Wars d6 both 1e rulebook and 2e Gamemaster's Guide, and various Cortex RPGs are really strong. They do a better job of...

From that list, I only backed: Shadowdark Humblewood Shadowdark is my go-to D&D game now, enhanced with Knave 2E, Errant, Pirate Borg, and the Hexcrawl Toolbox to extend it beyond the dungeon. Humblewood was really cool in theory, but by the time I got it in my hands I was burnt on furries...

Is The Lost City "complete," in that there's not a cut off where lower levels are mentioned and they are telling you to map them out and stock them? Is there a big boss battle setup with Zargon or is that left more as a possibility but not something really detailed/set on the existing adventure map?

Sarcasm. Move along! 😄

Same, but I gotta say I find it extremely amusing that we are going from "watching people sit around a table and play a game in their imagination" to "watching people sit around a table and stare at their laptops."

How many more mistakes do they have to make before people stop thinking they haven't revealed who they are telling us they are? ;)

Based on their actions in times where they've been (theoretically) fully staffed up, I'd argue it's unlikely that this has to do with senior staff being missing and more an issue of an organization run poorly regardless of their headcount or quality of employees.

Appreesh! I'm not on the socials so much. (At all, really.)

Source? I don't think we should ever again accept WOTC doing something nice goes unsourced. (No offense meant, @Paramandur, as I feel like you post quality stuff, but WOTC has been exceptionally vile for years.)

Don't lie about what you're playing. But if you want the closest to 4E that 5E can get, use the following: Level Up Adventurer's Guide Tome of Heroes (Kobold Press) Flee Mortals 4E DMG 1 and DMG 2 (primarily for Skill Challenge ideas and terrain effects) Make up magic items as-needed, using 4E...

Anyone know how the cheaper POD options work with regard to the sticker/achievement systems in the book?

Not nearly enough of us.

Blind packs are the worst.

I wish I had the space to accommodate buying things I won't use. This and several other Free League games are among the most beautiful releases I've ever seen.

Circling back to the start of this thread, I highly recommend PF Pawns. I bought a few boxes, but when I want to do some wargaming type stuff, I knew I needed MOAR! More goblins, more zombies, that kind of thing. So I went on eBay and lo and behold you can get them STUPIDLY CHEAP. If you aren't...

The article on Rascal does have some great info, but not the technical stuff, unfortunately. EDIT: Looks like some tech answers here.

Found the confirmation that the original is included: Goodman Games: Bob Brinkman:

That's how Dark Tower was: original module reprinted unchanged (except hardcover and possibly some copyright updates) in one book, then a second book with the full module plus expansions all converted and almost entirely rewritten for 5e or DCC, plus a third book of related, additional 5e or DCC...

Writing adventures for publication is hard, so I don't mind this stuff. Sometimes you have to "bound the rails" as it were, so in moments like these, I'd just straight up tell my players (either in session zero if it's not too spoilery, or in the moment if it is), "Hey, this part's something...

I found it quite easy to excise most of the real-world deity references, at least in FR; haven't revisited Planescape in many years where calling out specific gods mattered, so didn't bother with that yet. The Mulhorandi pantheon is filled with alternate names from Thay, or can be swapped for...