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We had an entire 1st-level party fall off climbing ropes and die on the way to the very first dungeon of a campaign once. First rolls of the game. Nothing above 5. Party wipe. It was the old 3e Gorgoland's Gauntlet introductory adventure, I'm pretty sure.

I used that encounter for a one-session introduction adventure i ran for friends' kids, and I had the goblins and PCs encounter each other while the goblins were chasing a small cute furry animal.

Yeah, but when he's 14, and he's got a choice between taking his early-teen crush to grab a milkshake OR to take her sailing with his best friend the magic dragon?

I won't get to play this for probably another year, but when i do, I'm going to play an obnoxious nose-picking cha 4 dwarf with warts, and amuse myself watching the hot NPCs fall over themselves to be romanced by him.

Seriously though, besides being a jerk who neglects his friends, Jackie Paper has no game. Grows up past being a little kid, and not even once thinks of taking a girl (or guy) that he's trying to impress to hang out with dragons and noble kings and princes in Honah Lee?

Not unreasonable. It takes 20 bloody hours to get anywhere from here by plane, and you’re lucky if there’s no 9 hour layover on the way. Australia certainly seems a VERY far realm when you’re starting to hit the travelling for 40 hours’ wall…

Serenity was the one i was thinking of. I co-GMed a game (mostly as an ideas sounding board rather than a GM at the table, fortunately for my sanity) and the mechanics were just disastrous. It's been many years now so the details are fuzzy, but it got to the point where we were posting on the...

The Unisystem Buffy game was great, some really innovative minor mechanics that really nailed the feel of the show. Just don't run your campaign too long because it breaks down when PCs have too many XP. Alien looks excellent, but i haven't played it. The worst I've seen is possibly Firefly...

If you're going to have an unpopular opinion, it might as well be REALLY unpopular! :ROFLMAO:

Unpopular (and certainly financially unrealistic) opinion: Cinematic universes are bad. Stories need to end if they're going to be stories. There's all sort of money in nostalgia and sequels and spin-offs and nerd completionism, but the whole business is corrosive to good filmmaking. Stories...

I was thoroughly drowed out by the time this one came around, so I never read it (hell, I was thoroughly drowed out by the time the WoSQ happened...) Most older D&D novels are available on kindle from amazon these days, if that's your thing. Hell, Amazon AU tells me that it actually has a new...

Different perspectives I guess. For me, it just added an extra (hundred year thick) layer of cruft, and didn't even bother to explain most of the cruft or put it in the remotest context with ... anything at all that had gone before. I was 100% alongside the idea of bringing FR back to a steady...

I can't speak for everyone of course, but from what i was seeing and reading at the time, the FR metaplot even back in its 90s heyday seemed to be actively hated by a large proportion of the player base. Novels came out much faster than game material, and the communication/coordination between...

Maybe Tales of the Old Margreve, by Kobold Press?

I'd never read that one back in the day, but i checked it out in the leadup to SotDQ. Couldn't finish it. The whole point of Soth is that he's a good knight who falls, but that book makes him a murderous jackass from day one.

CoS is a flat-out retcon, I don't think there's any realistic way of denying that. I vaguely remember WotC just being relatively open about the fact when CoS was new, but honestly, there isn't any way of fitting it in pre-5e continuity and WotC shouldn't bother trying. I mean hell, with the...

Urgh, I already didn't like 5e Spelljammer for a bunch of different reasons, but that hadn't even really registered with me properly. Who decides to make a swashbuckling spaceship setting, then neglects both fighting other spaceships in your spaceship, and also actually having any damn...

Oddly, Planescape is up for preorder on Amazon AU (at an absolutely gruesome pricepoint, mind you), but Phandelver is not yet available for preorder at all.

Presumably in the infinite multiverse, there are an infinite number of universes in which the universe numbering scheme is different and allocates different numbers to different universes…

It's far from optimal, but I've been poking around with the idea of using a poison-focused draconic sorcerer to represent a sorcerer with medusa ancestry. Poison Spray being the snakes in her hair spitting venom at her enemies. The natural armour thing works nicely in theme, and you can focus...