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White Dwarf had really great Traveller material. And D&D material for that matter. It all seemed to have more flavor and detail than TSR and GDW work at the time.

I don't do one shots, and my campaigns are long term. I've also never run an adventure path or a short term campaign. What can I say?

Holloway was my favorite artist. Always love his stuff. And falling... never was satisfied with various attempts at "realism". I kept 1d6 / 10' and added a saving throw. Make it and its stun damage, fail its real damage. Stun damage fades at 1 point per turn) with the player unconscious until...

How about one shot, adventure path, and ongoing campaign? For me, a setting can encompass any of these three. A military campaign may have a fairly specific goal or a broad goal, but it's not necessarily accomplished by a single path,

What am I picking up off this list... Dolmenwood. And I think I'll finally pick up Shadowdark (obviously not on this list). That's pretty much it for me this winter / spring. I've been waiting for them to re-print Shadowdark and I understand it will be available in February 2025. I like PDFs for...

The time dilation aspect only really shows up between battles when they go home. Everything is different and keeps getting stranger and stranger to the protagonist every time they "go home." It exaggerates the real life disconnect between combat veterans and the civilian world they return to...

I liked issues like this too. Of course I was 25 year old graduate school me at the time... You people are young :D

I like my magic to be obvious. Originally my players had a habit of casting some pretty destructive magic anywhere. In the town market, the village square, a church yard etc. Not to speak of indoors. Fireballs in a wooden town. Yep. So, in one of my campaign's occasional "refreshes" (between...

Throw in Ashes Without Number and I'm right there with you.

I had to switch mode to light / white to see / vote... then it was back to black :D For ordinary reading I find the dark mode better, but for this, the opposite.

I agree with you, but it's not "real world science". I had to veer away from that because all my initial players in 1974 were wargamers :D Dragon's being blown up with barrels of gunpowder, steam engines and ships / trains, cannons etc. were on the way if things worked like the real world. So...

Bingo. None of that other science stuff either. Creatures are composed of the four elements and spirit. Diseases are parasitic spirits. Things fall down because they are supposed to (if not held up by forces / magic). The world is flat (it's a giant table set in a crystal sphere that contains...

Maybe, but the people I play with at the table are the important ones to me. I've always done my own adventures (there were none in 1974 and the habit stuck) and my players have always enjoyed it. Tailored to my world, the settings ongoing events, and my players.

Sigh. FEAR. "More Beer" popped into my mind instantly.

The UAs are aimed at book material. And what happens if you put in unpopular material? If it's books fewer sales as people weigh the cost versus what they are getting. Now, for something like D&D Beyond it might work better, WotC might (at some point) consider the cost / benefit ratio of...

Here I am trying to down-size my collection and there's another Kevin Crawford book... PDFs are useful but physical books are just more so much more... satisfying :D

Best wishes for a complete and speedy recovery.

That sounds really promising,

Under getting started... if there are 12 classes, and 48 subclasses, then shouldn't it be 4 subclasses for each class (and not 2)? Or is it 2 subclasses for each class and only 24 subclasses? I'd imagine it's 48 with 4 for each class... Sorry to be pedantic, but I haven't looked at it yet and...

I started in 1974 and there were no modules etc. I had to do my own. Easy at first, it was all about dungeon crawls. I never got in the habit of buying modules. I leaned heavily on my habit of buying every fantasy novel that came down the pike and reading a lot of mythology and history (not...