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As a teenager, I loved it.

I have everyone roll initiative and then intercut between characters in initiative order.

Having played a campaign through 20th level, I feel that monsters are undertuned. In some cases they need more hit points, in nearly every case they need to do more damage. I've started tweaking monsters in ways inspired by 4E, such as: Solos get 4x the number of hit points. Elites get 2x hit...

Sounds like a good book. Wish I'd had it for my last campaign that climaxed with the 20th level PCs slaying Tiamat...

2nd episode of my Banewarrens campaign using the Shadow of the Demon Lord system. 5 characters all at level 1. The goblin magician with the Necromancy and Forbidden traditions already has 3 points of Corruption, failed his roll to gain a Mark of Darkness, and now weeps blood. "That happened...

Ha! I actually used the imagery of the Lady's Light, which is a lighthouse from Pathfinder.

There are definitely some solid setting books out there. But I'm gonna go with... Storm King's Thunder. Unpopular opinion! While the adventure has structural flaws, it has some awesome set piece dungeons that feel truly epic. It also has a solid gazetteer of the North that does two things...

29th session of my Neverwinter campaign. Three PCs of 5th and 6th level: evoker wizard, genie warlock, vengeance paladin. Aided by an NPC using the Archer stat block. In the previous session, the wizard was captured by a cabal of aberrations and taken to a lighthouse for interrogation. The...

Just curious, how much damage does "harsh language" cause?

Session 1 of my next D&D campaign. The Banewarrens for 3E by Monte Cook using the Shadow of the Demon Lord system from Robert Schwalb. Five players starting with Level 0 characters. Technically these characters started only with an ancestry, not a class. But this is the direction they went when...

100% agreement on this and I came here to say the same thing.

30th session of my Dragon Heist/Deck of Many Things mashup. By now we are waaaay off track. Previously, the 3 player characters had chopped down a dozen members of the city watch and become Waterdeep's most wanted. Realizing this was bad (a classic case of too little, too late) they decided to...

I have 100+ D&D books from all editions in hardcover and a few dozen more in PDF. Not to mention a few dozen Pathfinder products. Specific to 5E, I have most of the hardcovers, plus D&D Beyond. I've not purchased most of the recent setting guides -- Eberron, Wildemount, Richtoffen's, and all...

I guess I haven't spent a whole of time thinking about how much money CR is making...but I hope it's a LOT more than $9 million. $9 million, minus overhead, minus taxes, split 7-ish ways, over 3 years, in Los Angeles? That's not enough to buy a house. I want the biggest nerds on the planet to...

This.

I think there is a low likelihood that anyone at Hasbro is worried that Gamma World might cannibalize market share from Transformers or GI Joe in the TTRPG space. It's a stretch that anyone at Hasbro is micromanaging the brands in that way. And even if they were, the risk of actual...

I've been pondering why WotC isn't doing the Transformers and GI Joe RPGs. I suspect it might be simply because the Transformers/GI Joe business units have their own P&L, and any collaboration muddies that accounting. There might not be some master plan (or even discussion) between that business...

In my 1-20 campaign with 5 characters I had 3 deaths. One at 5th level, one at 7th level, and one at 19th level. Only one of those was permanent. It was exceptionally hard to kill characters at high level (and I have issues with how combat runs and how monsters are built) but it can be done...

29th session of my Dragon Heist/Deck of Many Things mashup. 6th level half-orc cavalier fighter, 6th level halfling swashbuckler rogue, and 6th level half-elf evoker wizard with one level of grave cleric. Previously, they'd managed to murder a squad of city watch that had been sent to arrest...

Agreed. But I still think it would be easiest for new DMs if there was a clear sequel to LMoP.