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Interesting that they review the Sleeping Dragon. The Guardians of the Flame series is one of my favorite series, even though I haven't read it in quite some time. Hard to believe it's This Old, though.

I love enspelled food. I think for candies, they should be quick effects - bonus to the next attack, a breath weapon (peppermints giving you cold breath for example), etc. I think other things that give buffs, like cold resistance, would be more substantial - in a campaign I ran, they found a...

I don't know. When Acq Inc started during 4e, it at least used the business as a framework for why these idiots stuck together.

There's a joke in there somewhere I can't quite put my finger on.

It would be nice to see, but I think the issue is scheduling the players. They are active working voice actors that need to be available for their real job - unlike CR where it was their hobby before it became their second job.,

It's not that Wizards is allergic to good ideas. I learned during the Kickstarter that became Legend of Vox Machina, a single episode - with the players voicing their own characters - would have been $750-800k USD. The KS exploded, and they kept expanding it. It ended up with, I believe, over...

Watching now. I feel this is a good way to leverage BG3's popularity and make people who liked BG3 maybe take a look at 2024 5e that may not have been exposed to it already.

I think we now tend to undervalue people picking up game systems and playing them in ways unintended by the creators. I was born in '74, and I got the Red Box maybe in '83? (It had the red dragon, and the warrior's back to the viewer). We learned the best we could and then did the DM book...

I'm not always a horror person, but I love when it's done right. There are two that come to mind I enjoyed, that I saw on Netflix, and luckily watched during the day. Grave Encounters - for all of its corniness, I think that came from the fact they were modelling those 'ghost hunter shows'...

Personally, I was hoping for Romulans.

I think this is a struggle in a lot of forms of communication, not just in gaming. To use an example we often see on this website, if rules are too brief and not concise enough, we end up arguing Rules as Written and Rules as Intended. It's easy to run into that when you're publishing a...

I would recommend people who don't play 5e, and haven't in a long time, could find better, more actionable advice elsewhere. I would recommend author John Wick's 'Play Dirty' books - chock full of good, system agnostic advice on situations more generally applied. Otherwise, it really reeks of...

I feel saying that because WotC turns one way - let's say towards milestones - that everyone else tends to turn that way is a gross oversimplification. If that were the case, there would be even less of a market for other systems. Other systems, including OSR, come about because a community...

I like it. It doesn't seem to be any different than 3.x with DR 5/silver or DR 10/magic.

As someone who, in 3.x, fell behind fairly rapidly because of massive item creation, XP imbalance can be bad. It was worse in my situation where I was outfitting one guy who had to pull the whole party (2 PCs, 1 DM, no cups ;) ) I get the want for XP. It's handy. But I feel gaming systems...

EDIT: To be a little less JMS for a moment... I can still sort of recall those days. I remember feeling the system was strange, and weird, but really... amazing and simple. It went through a 'simple-hard-simple' phase cycle between our play time with it. It felt like no matter what, this was...

We were there, at the dawn of the Third Age of... D&D.

Makes sense. Speaking of Seattle, I could use some Piroshky Piroshky, but I'm in east Tennessee. Blah.

It sounds like, to me, Starbucks then is the Seattle version of the way Australians feel about Fosters. My understanding is No True Aussie drinks the oil can of it.

I suspect this is yet another reason the DMG has a magic item distribution tracker SPECIFICALLY in there - to make sure martials aren't falling behind. To me, it seems there's a lot of pearl-clutching for the poor single classed fighter in What If scenarios... meanwhile, many posts about...