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Oh look! My two favorite categories of TTRPG products to throw money at: "Starter Sets I'll Never Play" and "Free League Products"! (Seriously. I have two intertwined problems.) I've been half-seriously developing a bard with a duck familiar (for the one time I get to pull off the "Put it on...

Oh, yeah. Sorry. :) This is my base: Homemade Luxardo Cherries But this one is functional: Luxardo Cherries Recipe | Boozy Cherries | Liqueur Syrup | EmilyFabulous I use fresh squeezed lemon juice from the "Emily" recipie in the "Nerd Cooks" mix, plus a few pinches of dark chili powder and a...

Amazing, for sure. I was inspired and I now make 'em. Luxardo's not super expensive, cherries have been dirt cheap this summer, and I found a base recipe online that I've made a few modifications to. I have a few friends that now get jars every year and they're great to have on hand as a host...

Huh. Also missed this one the first time around. Well, it's exciting to see so many folks praising the virtues of the Sazerac and the Boulevardier, two personal favorites. Murray's in Minneapolis, MN made a damn good Sazerac last time I was there. My go to "wedding drink" is a G&T, and if I'm...

For D&D, I have always been a greater fan of DL's one pantheon with "same deity, different name" and greater or lesser influence over a geopolitical area than FR's "We have seventeen gods of death*". *Admittedly, that's partially due to them constantly killing each other off. Ironic, no? I've...

As a Chicagoland resident, I feel targeted. I also think that I know of at least three Italian restaurants that I could get that at, as "side order of meatballs"

A Boy Scout overnight lock-in at a (now decommissioned) Air Force Base, and a poster here (as DM) frenetically introducing us new 5th graders to the idea. Don't remember a damn thing about PLAYING that night. ETA: This would have been around 89, I don't think he had 2nd Edition AD&D yet.

Shadowrun hasn't been the same since they took "Turn to Goo" off the core book spell list the first time.

No ICE MERP? Kidding. I have not yet played, but I have read through everything for One Ring 2E and the core book for Lord of the Rings RPG 5E. I would lean toward One Ring 2E for all the reasons given here: flavor, rules, and the books are just dang beautiful. Also, they've turned me into a...

I was coming up with "nothing" from 5E that stands out like the Githyanki ( Fiend Folio ), the statue's gem eye (1E PHB), the party with the young green dragon (inside 2E PHB), or Lord Soth's ride, but I'll give that Strahd a vote for art remembered once we're on 7E. @Uni-the-Unicorn!'s...

Following. The .pdf link is sitting in my inbox, hoping to make time to look at it starting Friday.

Laughing: this was exactly my reaction. It's a pleasure to see I'm not the only one.

Same. And I got the same feeling with "Witcher: Blood Origins," but in "Willow," I felt the PLAYERS were more experienced and mature, just learning a new system. "W:BO" felt like less mature players who know how to abuse the system.

Thank you for this review; it echoes my reaction to the book exactly. I'm absolutely in love with Free League's "The One Ring" products, and am voraciously collecting and reading them, even though it's doubtful I'll ever actually play the system.

A frighteningly in-depth knowledge of early 1980s GI Joe file names: "Conrad Hauser" has been a dwarf mercenary, a barkeep, a cleric; "Dashiell Faireborne" has been a bard and a rival adventuring party captain; "Clayton Abernathy" has been a paladin; "Lonzo" has shown up a few times, as have...

Not to be picky, but wouldn't this be FASA at the time? Great retrospective, though! I agree that it always felt like...something...was waiting to happen. I guess they did "something" with the Fifth Age/SAGA-times, but...well, it wasn't for me. In retrospect it did shake things up; I'm looking...

Mine showed up yesterday. Have not unboxed, but not impressed with the shipping box packing; quite a few corners of the "bundle box" are dinged and crinkled.

Time of the Dragon was the first boxed set I owned, so yeah, Taladas IS "the D&D world" as far as pre-teen-me was concerned. I STILL pull inspiration from characters from that worldbook.

Someone must have let Tasslehoff get a hold of the Device of Time Journeying again...

My memory's a little rusty, but isn't Branchala the only CG god on Krynn? And Sirrion the only CN? DragonLance never was very fond of the "Chaos" axis. But seeing as B. is the god of bards and kender...yeah, this exactly tracks.