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One more thing: most players don't understand what they really want or like. Don't listen to what they say, watch what they do! Good luck sir!

You have the love (or at least like) what you are running. If you don't, it doesn't matter what your players want to play or how "cool" your campaign idea is. PF2 is a heavy ruleset compared to 5E and takes more time and attention. Do you actually want to use it? Would your players actually...

I've bought all of the non-adventure 5E books. A lot of the third party stuff (miniatures) is likely licensed. Some of this behavior is due to buying too much 3E and 4E (and Pathfinder) and not getting a huge amount of use out of most of it. A lot of it is also being a mature DM and...

What do you mean "if?" https://www.beadleandgrimms.com/gold/eberron

Or the "encounter" packs from Dwarven Forge... which are modular and endlessly reusable!

In terms of the quality of the KS and delivering I can think of four stand-outs: 1. Dwarven Forge - Shipping is often a little bit late, but there's no touching their quality and the new features they come up with for terrain. A little goes a long way, but it is easy to get addicted. 2...

Ah, the epic item that "overbalances the campaign" =) Sword of Mean Hitpoints. Wand of Median Saves Chest of Normally Distributed Loot Necklace of Level Appropriate Fireballs Also, there's another option: give everyone something equally ridiculous and amp up the entire game. That's often the...

The flavor of Eberron is sold well by Rising and there are some pretty interesting new character choices. I think there is enough here for someone who wasn't already sold on Eberron to get into it. At the same time, the conversion to 5E strikes me as "good enough" to keep veterans happy. In...

Glad to see Anna back on a regular stream. Sad things happened to/with/around people.

I much prefer to keep the PHB races list shorter, as well as the class list. The PHB should support new players and veterans. Drowning a new player (or DM) in too many options just increases the difficulty of entering the hobby. And if you don't think people are turned off by even 5E's PHB...

Yes -- Orcus makes his own minions during the fight. It worked like a charm.

I've run Orcus. He runs reasonably well out of the box as long as he has his lair actions and his wand. I amped up his hitpoints quite a bit though. You do need to adjust that for the output of your party if they've gotten lucky on equipment, etc. It is more important to stress the party in...

The special edition cover really sells it. My local store had a HUGE stack of SE covers. I figure WotC knows they put the book in a bad light with their standard cover. I showed my wife the different covers and she couldn't understand what happened either. Finally got to reading my copy and...

I think how useful these tables are is a function of (a) how you like to DM, and (b) how much time you have to DM. As a parent with a full time job I've found myself warming to tables like these. They're essential. When I have the time I make my own tables so I can be prepared for odd...

Why is Eberron up with the old (unbelievably bad) cover? I mean, sure, Keith Baker got it and has a real Eberron cover on his upcoming book but at least WotC changed the cover to something a bit less awful.

I'm hearing a lot of good things about this book! I can't wait for mine to arrive in the mail. Then I can get started reskinning My Little Pony (River 7) adventures into a magebred unicorn campaign for my kids... my daughter has hit the unicorn phase hard.

Mea culpa. Feel better! Keith Baker had a lot of really excellent blog posts while Eberron was in hibernation at WotC that approached how to include random other stuff into Eberron in organic and really interesting ways. It is well worth digging through his website as an Eberron fan or as DM...

See, this and the Ravnica point are really confusing to me. Realms was, originally, a Renaissance-fair version of D&D. Greenwood can really pull out that aesthetic, but from a world-building perspective it is extraordinarily messy and "jam things in because" after all the years of other...

A lot of what made Eberron in 3E so incredible was the singularity of vision forged through the contest with Keith on top of everything. Having read a lot of his Eberron posts through the years I was hoping he'd be given free reign to show that level of love. Sounds like this might be closer...

I forgive this item only because I read here that Keith mentioned it! I actually really like the idea of magic prosthesis. This is a world that has just come out of a 100 year world but with the magic and technology to make up for some of the consequences. A really interesting addition to...