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Looking at the books a way to make the Deck of Many Thinhs usable in play, instead of the Russian Roulette joke it has been traditionally, organizing by the cards makes a lot of sense: it helps make any card that gets pulled a story opportunity instead of a campaign wrecker.

IIRC, you do not DM...so, honestly, not much? The material in thus book, except for a handful of Feats and a lot of magic items, is pretty much all DM prep material. Great present for a DM, though.

The larger the number of people adopting 2024 ruoes organically, the greater the pull of laziness will be, too.

So, at about midway between 9 and 10 thousand backers with $1.8 million raised, this is a pretty huge success for a low-swag Kickstarter (not that the books don't look nice, but the frills here are pretty down to earth for these sorts of things). Still about 3 thousand backers away from the...

Thinking about why people might not talk about the book...it doesn't present many problems with use. The Big Campaign books need a lot of work to make into a game, but the bite size bits in here don't require big threads on how to fix the material.

Part of the real strength of the book, IMO, is how small moat of the ideas are: very easy to go looking, find a little bit to use, and drop it in somewhere.

So, the Book of Many Things is the standard 5E hardcover supplement that comes bundled with the Deck of Many Things product: it has Feats, Backgrounds, Monster stat blocks, random tables, magic items (actually one of the largest sets of magic items of any 5E supplement) maps, mini adventures...

Just from my past decade of experience of 5E, 18 is a good amount to create specialization and difference between members of a party, or different characters with the same Class.

One of the better and more daring products made for 5E, honestly: a real smorgasbord of tools and ideas to use in game prep.

This is pretty stupid and ugly looking: the idea that it was cheap to make is laughable, considering the amount of IP theft involved, using material that took the and effort to make originally.

It is interesting, thinking on it, they seem to have been keen to keep the exact same number of Skills, even if they reshuffle them significantly: wonder if there is some game theory reason for 18 Skills, specifically, in 5E rules in general.

I saw them in supermarkets in the 90s, and I wasn't even lookong for them.

The novels are very much straight up AD&D 1E fiction, in detail. The first story is even The Village of Hommlet, with her clearing out the Moathouse.

- Dex: Piloting replaces Sleight of Hand - Cha: Intimidation and Performance are dropped without replacement - Wis: Mechanics replaces Animal Handling, Streetwise replaces Survival - Int, the Big One, all Skills from standard 5E except History are removed and replaced with: Astronautics...

The main thing the whiteboard theory crafting misses is that the 2014 design intent is for the Rogue to have Advantage on every single Round, essentially. Hence the 2024 changes that simply make that more apparent and easier.

Yeah, I think the reqson behind a lot of this stuff (like how very many guns there are, seriously like 30 different guns maybe?) is from the designers porting over 5E representations of what they built for the video game: probavly also the reason behind the 4 Classes they chose (also easier to...

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