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But you can only use them to mail letters to Waterdeep.

The game I play in is 4 hours. I tend to have less stamina when I am running things, so the game I DM for is scheduled for 3 hours.

This post made me go back and look at my own hobby spending in 2023. While I did not track it at the time, I buy stuff from from a pretty limited number of sources so it is not too hard to recreate after the fact. Physical books ~$310 I think this is higher than usual in this category as I...

Manatees are pretty big. I think I could probably take one of those in the unlikely event the manatee and I could not resolve our differences peacefully.

MacGyver's Swiss Army Knife.

Yeah, I saw this up on the WotC site recently, I think it is interesting how they streamlined some of the class abilities and spells for new players, as well as changing everything that doesn't use a d6 or d20 into a fixed number (e.g. magic missiles do 3 points of damage each).

Greyhawk is the one that I have the most affection for. We ran most of our games in Greyhawk "back in the day" and it was the home to all those great 1E adventures, so it really has the nostalgia factor going for it for me. Even just on the merits I still think it is the best "vanilla" setting...

Definitely a badly written spell. However, I would rule that the slot is expended when you flourish the card as that is when you actually cast the spell ("you can use a bonus action to flourish the card and cast the spell within"). I have no idea what "imbue" means mechanically, but when you...

If it favors the PCs I tend to be pretty liberal with letting the rule of cool override RAW. If it favors the monsters I would override RAW only if it was a pretty clear case. The example in the OP seems to fit, as it is reinforcing the idea that the monster is big and powerful beyond what PCs...

The rules and adventures have been up on the Reaper Minis website for quite some time (beta rules say they were posted Dec. 2022) - only the Kickstarter is new. So this may just be to do a print version of the game.

That rule only applies if it is a circular area of effect. DMG p. 251. Areas of effect need to have their origin at an intersection of squares preventing you from covering partial squares with a cube AoE.

Gno I have gnot played a gnoll and I gnever will.

The group I am a player in has used some version of this rule for the past four campaigns, spanning over four years of weekly games. It works great and I highly recommend it. I am not using it in the group I DM for just because it would not work with the pacing of the published campaign I am...

FG is my favorite. It has a ton of functionality and supports a number of systems. The down side is that there is a pretty steep learning curve starting out - if you can get over that curve it is great, but lots of people who try to pick it up on their own never do. Also the licenses are...

Personally I enjoy making a character that is tailored to the game world and campaign more than just completely open ended character creation. Ideally that process is not just restrictive, but one that provides interesting ideas for character creation as well - for example, organizations that a...

An equipment list full of funky hats and helmets.

Competent to heroic but stopping short of super heroic. In D&D terms you start at level 3 and end up around level 7. In movie terms you start out as John McClain in Die Hard (a tough cop who can defeat a bigger group with cleaver tactics and luck) and but peak well before you become John...

Not exactly what I would have gone with, but its fine. Sorcerer is the only one that seems really off. There are several others where I would have swapped out one of the choices (no hexblade?) but I think most of the picks are reasonable.

You could argue their poor review of GoT has aged pretty well. I just took fans seven seasons to realize that the NYT critics had been right all along....

Yes, exactly. If he hadn't done it the internet would have exploded with people complaining about his absence ruining the whole thing. Mediocre Diterlizzi art is on Diterlizzi. Not even asking him to do art is WotC "being out of touch with the real Planescape fans" and "not understanding why...