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Well, there's the proteans' warp wave table from Bestiary 2. There are some small tables in the ogrekin section of Bestiary 2 and an even smaller one in the Mana Wastes Mutants section in Inner Sea Bestiary. I've heard the Metamorphica (pay what you want from DriveThruRPG) is a good...

I don't have a ton of experience with modules, mostly just reading them for enjoyment. I took about a twenty year break using them between the first printed one I ran (Jacob's Well from Dungeon #43) and the next I remember running (Rise of the Runelords Anniversary Edition). In the intervening...

Hey! Free PDF of the only book I actually wanted! There's a decent chance we still won't be interested, but at least I'll get to read it this way. Cheers! Kinak

I find it works pretty well to just scale things up. Just use the normal combat system, treating each army as a character. When an army is "destroyed," it's morale is broken and the survivors scatter. The trick is integrating characters into that. I usually have the leaders of each army duking...

The first thing that hops to mind is that the ghost of the old baron was watching over his people. It could be that the last of the people alive during his reign finally passed away, releasing him from his oath. Or Death just finally came for him. On a darker note, perhaps he knew the king had...

Excellent summary, thanks! Cheers! Kinak

That didn't sound like what he meant, but it is definitely an option I've considered. That's what I'd mean, but it could also mean 5e tools on DDI. Or free web tools. Or the vestigial DMG/MM in the back of the PHB like 3rd. Or something else they think meets those needs that I don't think does...

I also hope that terminology goes away soon, but it seems like it's mostly a complaint by people who were expecting a full D&D basic game. So I don't think it's a question of understanding. If people didn't understand they aren't getting a basic boxed set, they wouldn't be complaining. The...

Well, the two D&D settings I've always really wanted to play but have never really gotten the chance are Spelljammer and Birthright, so... A game of nationbuilding and political machination on an interplanetary scale, where the gods themselves have set their scions on the path of conquest. What...

I wouldn't call myself "old school" but this is exactly where I'm at. The basic rules are the only product for 5e I was really interested in, so I guess we'll see if they're actually going to be a print product. Obviously, if they offer them for free, I'll download them and take a look. But I...

It's true. Even free games can be bad. Cheers! Kinak

That's actually an interesting point. It could be raw HTML or, in theory, even some sort of Silverlight or Java abomination. It sounds like a PDF to me, but that's reading a lot into "15% of the PHB." The worst I'd expect, though, is something like the SRD/PRD that's spread around and a pain to...

Thanks for braving the wilds of twitter to bring this back for us :) It's a heck of a lot better than we had yesterday, that's for sure. That said, I'm holding my applause for the exciting thing that Mike Mearls and RPGPundit were talking about that apparently isn't just downloadable character...

Yeah, it's a shame, because "The Basic Rules" are all that I was looking forward to. Now that they've vanished, I'm not sure if I'll be getting anything. Cheers! Kinak

I'm not really sure "D&D Multimedia" is where things are headed or should be headed. D&D is more like a game console than an IP. Sure, people love the NES, but nobody is going to market an NES comic. A Mario Brothers comic? A Legend of Zelda comic? A Metroid comic? Absolutely. But not an NES...

Ha! I didn't run into the guards either, but that's classic. I was actually just talking to one of my players, who's gone to GenCon with us the last few years. When I mentioned that WotC was sticking with their plan from last year, he laughed because he thought I was making fun of them for not...

From what they've revealed? Absolutely not. They may have some secret sauce that they haven't shown us, but living up to those promises was probably never in the cards. For what it's worth, I put that mostly on whoever set the goals. Falling short of goals like "a game that feels like 2nd...

If they have a complete basic game that looks fun, I'll pick it up and make further decisions from there. Until last week, when I mentioned that the answer I got was "that sounds like the Starter Set." Now, I'm not sure what the answer is. It's looking increasingly likely that they won't be...

Yeah, it seems to fit the bits and pieces we've been getting. The conversion rate for organized play is also potentially pretty exciting, depending on how they'd handle it. But we'll see how they handle it. Yesterday I was assuming character creation rules were in the starter set. Who knows...

Well, in the announcement of the "D&D Adventurer's League," there's mention of a Player's Guide. It doesn't say anything about it containing character creation rules, but that does seem like the sort of thing they might be excited about. Cheers! Kinak