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Fantasy Grounds is easily my least favorite tabletop tool on the current market, and the price of this package is prohibitive. Still, it's a start. Here's to hoping other VTT makers follow suit.

Don't even get me started on Theoden and Eomer.

I think other posters pretty much nailed it. One thing I would add, is that 5E runs *really* well without a grid or battle map, and a mapless roll20 game is very quick to prep for.

I'm not sure why that would be good news, unless I actually wanted EnWorld to move toward a political discourse site. Which I absolutely goddamn don't.

I'm really happy with GenCon's response to this localized bigotry. I'm a lot less happy to have direct political discussion encroaching even more on EnWorld.

I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting mechanics, especially if they can be stolen for use in D&D. Chris Pramas has a really unfortunate habit of using the "if you disagree with me then #$%^ you" formula to make his points. Personally I find it rankles (a lot), even when I'm in full...

Good list.

I've converted quite a few monsters and magic items from 2E, and so far haven't run into any serious problems. I can't think of many 2E class features that I really want to see in the game. Other than the Sha'ir, of course.

Steep progression curves force the game into a relatively linear format, because at any given level there are a more limited number of monsters that you can reasonably expect to fight against and win. (4E addressed this problem by decoupling monster race from CR; Paizo by embracing the model's...

The new Geek and Sundry twitch game had eight players, and as a viewer I never felt like there were too many.

You might also check out Being Everything Else with Adam Koebel and Steve Lumpkin--it operates within the same vein and is in several ways more accessible to your average listener. (Tho one of the guys is a computer game designer and it's a youtube/twitch thing rather than a podcast.)

It pays to be a bit of a jerk about attendance, and get rid of the players who can't/won't respect the schedule.

The key difference between a railroad and a sandbox takes place outside of the game, on the social level. If it's a sandbox, you (the players) can decline to go to the temple of elemental evil and go do something else instead, and no one will call you out for being derailing jerks. On the other...

The premise is the one part of the game that you (collectively as a table) have complete control over without any implications about railroading or sandboxing. IOW: your hook may be contrived, heavy handed or uninteresting, but it won't dictate whether the campaign is a sandbox or not...

A campaign is an adventure or series of adventures that's continued long enough to exhibit an emergent plot arc.

Not to derail the thread, but ... how does this compare to Golarion, I wonder?

Yeah, for sure. I consider world building a different thing again than campaign prep, although there will always be some overlap. But the question of published setting or homebrew setting is orthoganal to the ideas of sandbox/railroad/procedural generation--one could just as well use use any of...

Geeze with the dismissive antagonism. For the record, and as most posters in this thread are probably aware, there are lots of ways to keep pets below pokemon levels by without restricting pets to class features.

That isn't a sandbox; at least, not in the sense I meant. Computer games draw a clear distinction between open world/sandbox levels on one hand, and procedurally generated levels on the other. TTRPGs have not embraced this distinction, (I suspect) because one of the "big lies" of this hobby is...

I would try to role play it out so that they were at the character's back. In that case, they would get auto surprise. If that didn't pan out, I would force the doppleganger to make a stealth roll vs. target's passive per to get the drop.