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I see a lot of laments about the loss of personality traits, bonds, and flaws... and while I agree in theory, in practice I cannot recall a single time in the past decade where one of my players actually bothered to incorporate those ideas into their character in a meaningful way. It's entirely...

With a quick read through I’m pretty happy with it. There’s probably some tweaks to be made. I would be happy to see a new Eberron release—we could use an update on the species and dragonmarks, maybe a few other mechanics, but I don’t know that we need another Khorvaire setting book. I’d like to...

I just wish I could still play 5E (or any other older edition) with my books... but Elon sent Pinkertons to all of our houses to collect them (We all really should have read the terms of service on D&D Beyond, YouTube, MuskWorld (formerly enworld), and every other D&D related website!). It's...

With a masterpiece like this in the world, why were other adaptations ever made!?

I saw it Saturday. I disagree with most of your points. I thought Cynthia Erivo did a fantastic job—the audience in my theater broke out in applause after a couple of her songs—I think Ariana Grande did a great job as well, but I don’t think there’s a question of the stronger performance. I...

Yikes. This is super petty and reads little desperate to me. I haven’t read it cover to cover yet, but so far, I think the new DMG is pretty great—leagues above most other editions’ versions in terms of organization, usefulness (skewed toward the new DM, but still useful for a 35 year vet like...

Yeah... I've had the sense for a while now that variant rules were more or less getting the axe in this DMG. I'm a little bummed, since I use a few (plus I was hoping to see some things like critical hit variants they toyed around with in the play test). But, I still think i's going to be a much...

Next month will be my group's 4th "Cabin Con" where we rent either a group of cabins or a big lodge and have our own mini-con. Since the non RPGer spouses come, it's mostly board games, but it's a lot of fun. It's an updated version of something we used to do years ago, where we'd have a long...

I know Greyhawk has it's fans, but I always found it to be pretty similar thematically with Forgotten Realms--at least compared to say Ravenloft, Dark Sun, or Eberron, which all have a distinctly different flavor. I think this makes sense as a way to put the setting out there to honor the...

Years ago, either in high school or college, I had a fletcher that sold a magical quiver that was effectively endless. The trick was, every time it replenished arrows, it magically teleported new arrows from his shop at twenty times their normal price automatically deducted from the character's...

I hear you... I made the joke even though my favorite uncle took his own life with a shotgun several years ago. I envision that the dwarf was grasping the gun by the barrel, kinda like a spear, hands literally nowhere near the trigger.

Given the text, a really funny (and dark) picture would have had the dwarf holding the shotgun by the barrel with with the stock pointed at the troll... But one piece of goofy art aside, I think everything they actually talked about being in this chapter sounds really good. A lot of it sounds...

I thought this was a real head scratcher myself. I would have left Linguist as an Origin feat and included more subclass features that granted rare languages: warlocks getting the language of their patron, clerics getting Celestial, Infernal or Abyssal, Wizard getting a couple of bonus languages...

While I am intrigued by the idea of Bastions, I wasn't a fan of the UA version (and was very disappointed there was a never a second pass). My specific mechanical issues aside, I feel the system would be tough to integrate in most of their published adventures; I'll be curious to see if they...

Technically I'm eligible for a piece of any settlement. Given the choice between $100 (or more like $2) and an ugly cybertruck, I'll take the $2!

I could live with that--it would be an improvement over the 2014 DMG--especially if they differentiate prices between major an minor items of each rarity. But given the format of items int he new PH, where every described piece of equipment has the price listed in parenthesis after the...

I'm honesty surprised the FFG/Edge license doesn't specify that they have to put out new supplements at some regular interval. It seems clear that as soon as the license expires, a new Star Wars RPG will wind up elsewhere. I'm not sad about that--I've played this version, and while I thought the...

I was surprised that custom backgrounds weren't int he PH, especially since in the play test it was the default assumption and all the backgrounds were just samples. But given how friendly to new players this PH is, I probably should have expected custom backgrounds would wind up in the DMG. It...

If I had to base my purchasing decisions--much less my feelings about any given product--around any corporation, at best I'd be living in the woods scavenging for food and shelter... at worst, I'd be dead, because I'm on medication!

I completely agree! I get why they cut the cultural stuff from the PH--a drow or a halfling from the Realms couldn't be more different from their Eberron counterparts--and it makes perfect sense to reintroduce things like names, customs, and religion into the setting books.