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Just a head's up: NecronomiCon in Providence happens every other year, not annually. Before the pandemic it took place in odd-numbered years but now it occurs in even-numbered years, so the next one is in 2024. On the off-years, the group that runs it -- Lovecraft Arts & Sciences Council -- will...

Others have answered these questions better already but to summarize my position: 1. Because spell slots are so precious and are a wizard's raison d'etre, the player is incentivized to hoard them for combat. The wizard I'm playing now (Lv7 Runecrafter from the Giants UA -- RIP) knows Detect...

Lack of options. Back in 1e days, functions were siloed by class. Fighters bashed things, thieves picked locks and disarmed traps, clerics healed and buffed, and magic-users cast offensive magic. Since then, three of those four have expanded beyond their original boundaries but wizards are...

As someone who'd also like to see Iomandra collated and presented as a formal setting, I feel like Wizards' recent slipcase model is a perfect vehicle for delivering settings that don't merit big 256-page books on their own. Three 96-page books, each focusing on a different setting: maybe a...

This was my biggest beef with 1e/2e Ravenloft -- it was all maudlin backstories for the darklords and yet very little stuff for the PCs to actually do. Give me some bullet-point strokes for NPC personalities and I can dramatize them on the fly, but what I can't improvise as quickly are maps...

Side quests. Lots and lots of side quests. My players are ruled by their whims. This one wants to earn some money, another wants to join a guild or criminal faction, and a third will become obsessed that some aristocrat is hiding something in his wine cellar and only good old-fashioned B&E will...

Like several other posters I'm completely uninterested in revisiting old settings. I liked Van Richten's -- I felt it fixed a bunch of problems with 1e/2e Ravenloft (such as how so many of the domains and darklords were cookie-cutter duplicates) -- but the Spelljammer reboot was shallow and I...

I registered with ENWorld just to reply to this thread. I greatly enjoy your reviews of Dungeon and I've been eagerly anticipating your thoughts about my own contributions, which include "The Baron's Eyrie" in issue 58, "The Unkindness of Ravens" in issue 65, and my final -- and favorite --...