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My main reservation about the new WotC Planescape set is that it just doesn't do the planes very well. Which is a strange thing to say about a Planescape product, admittedly. But it really depends what you want out of your Planescape game. WotC 5e planescape is an excellent Sigil resource...

You could do it. A class that's all about muddling though and getting by, with no special talents but the touch of fate and Being A Designated Main Character. But a class based around luck and destiny and Just Not Dying, perhaps the halfling's Luck ability, a bunch of re-rolls, the persuasion...

I’ve played a roll20 game but we found the voice feature to be basically nonfunctional. Continual dropouts, and absolute refusal to work for all players at once. We ended up switching it off and running the game on roll20 but the voice over a Facebook messenger call.

Agreed. I know I’m a broken record on this, but WotC needs to bite the bullet and write up a class that is primarily about the pet, with thematics/details customisable in the same way that the pact/patron/invocation choices let you customise a warlock. Tacking a pet on to a pre-existing class...

I suspect this might be a bigger deal for a lot of people who were deeply involved in the hobby at the time. Back then, Gygax’s name was in everything, he’d stick his oar in on debates in Dragon. He’d created the whole hobby, he was the face of the hobby and it gave him a level of aura. I was 8...

I played an alchemist artificer who was heavily Frankenstein-inspired for a while in a Tomb of Horrors campaign. The verbal component to his Healing Word spell was ‘Arise, minion!!’

I HATE that the reanimator can create their undead companion without requiring a corpse to be handy! Way to miss the grave robbing point of the entire archetype. Bard’s Spirits from Beyond ability is much more dice-dependent now that the ability triggers immediately you use the bardic...

PCs met Lord Soth. He and his retinue arrived at soon-to-be-attacked Kalaman in the guise of regular knights, then at the ceremony to honour their arrival, Soth revealed himself and killed the governor with a power word (for the ‘crime’ of usurping his authority by assuming the role of Lord...

Pretty sure it’s public domain now, it appears to be in project Gutenberg if you don’t mind the ebook thing! I read Kij Johnson’s actual sequel novel when deciding whether to back this one. I’ve got a second hand copy of William Horwood’s The Willows In Winter en route as well.

I know Ben Riggs inspires mixed feelings among some on here, but I think he’s currently working on a history of post-TSR d&d. Hopefully it covers some of this ground.

I vaguely remember that one, didn't back it though. I think it was a mega-adventure book, and they're not really my thing. I hear you about the ancillaries and accessories and tchotchkes though. I wish so many campaigns weren't loaded up with that stuff, all they do is delay fulfillment. I...

That's a rough run. I've got a few which are looking shaky, but in general I try to only back stuff which has a large team behind it. Solo projects with ambitious art/production design goals are a recipe for things going wrong, much more than it simply being an indie project. Of the ones in...

Let her earn it though play. When she finally gets to multiclass into bard, everyone will cheer a bit...

To be fair, I’ve backed a lot of first time kickstarters, and while sometimes the product has been underwhelming (which happens for well known publishers too) I’ve never gotten completely nothing. I’m reasonably sure the production is quite far along, given this has been advertising on Facebook...

Thief rogue with the entertainer background, for mine. The 5e bard is a spellcaster first and foremost rather than a performer (which was a bad design choice, but that’s an argument for another thread!), and while Olive is interested in magic and a skilled musician, a caster she is not.

I really like the idea of Keshanar, and I’ve backed at $1 with the possibility of increasing later, but they’re doing something very strange with postage. Shipping is (I think) charged at campaign completion and it is at an EXTRAORDINARILY high rate. Here in Australia the shipping cost is much...

Not exactly what you asked for, but this is currently on kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gneissgames/the-gunslingers-guide-to-rexfald/rewards

Overproduction is absolutely standard and normal for every Kickstarter of course. The whole idea is to leverage preorders to, well, kickstart the production run. I have no industry experience so I don’t know what the usual amount of overproduction is. But bear in mind a couple of things. First...

Yeah, they're real pricey these days. My near-complete set of the FFG 40k books sit on my 'retirement savings fund' bookshelf directly above the FR grey box and the original Planescape box set...

There's approximately a million 3rd party steampunk supplements for 5e out there, I wonder if they'll be using an existing one, or homebrewing. In my limited experience (a level 1-5 Iron Kingdoms campaign), the main headaches with emulating the steam vibe in D&D are: making stuff. Engineering...