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My current 5E Greyhawk campaign has run for 61 sessions so far (2.5-3 hours each) and the party are just hitting level 16. Cheers, Merric

I blame... Outdoor Survival! Cheers, Merric

The thread title should really say that it's a platinum seller on Steam. (Who knows what other platforms are doing). Cheers, Merric

I think you're wrong - but in a very unusual way. See, I don't this the OSR knows what it is. Or, more correctly, there are SEVERAL OSRs going on under the banner. You do have the hardcore-mode "We die and we like it" going on, but you also have the "rulings not rules" crew, and several more...

I'm mostly noticing it in the realms of "This one effect gets added to every attack the character makes". As in - for a given character, little variety in how it plays at the table. It's a far cry from the interest of the (multiple) at wills in 4E where there was a decision to make each turn...

Does not need attunement Ring of Animal Influence Ring of Resistance Ring of Swimming Ring of Three Wishes Ring of Water Walking Needs attunement Ring of Djinni Summoning Ring of Elemental Command Ring of Evasion Ring of Feather Falling Ring of Free Action Ring of Invisibility Ring of Jumping...

Sigh. Yeah, same. (Well, at all).

Putting a manticore (flying, high damage) against first level characters is such a horrible DMing trick from Wizards. But - honestly - most of their recent low-level writing has been "let's get it over as fast as possible." While I rather enjoy good first level play. You just need situations...

The lack of these in the new DMG (and strong dungeon creation rules) is a major factor in me being disappointed in the 2024 DMG. Moldvay is incredibly important as a refinement of the ideas Arneson and Gygax were hinting at in OD&D and later. There's a lot that is actually innovative in his...

B10+ are just too late for me (and were hard to find likewise). B2 is the one I'm most familiar with. B7 The Veiled Society I really appreciate. Looks like I've reviewed B1-B8 on my site. Cheers!

The original version (by Jean Wells) had some art that seemed to be mocking the TSR leaders, plus some otherwise racy art (for the time) and rather odd monsters. Stories vary a little on what it was that so enraged TSR leadership - but it was recalled and destroyed. The module that was widely...

I've been watching Cubicle 7 doing a lot of expansion of the downtime system, and at some point I'll try to properly bring that into my campaigns. Some of the oddities in the new DMG relate to how stuff hasn't changed. Which feels very odd when looking at all the major changes in the PHB...

The physical edition is a true rarity. For the collectors out there, it is something unusual. For most of us, we'll happily just have the pdf. But having one of the very few copies of an adventure that was recalled and destroyed? Yeah, it does have a value. I'm not that well off to add it to...

I did at the time they first released that pdf. It's a most peculiar product!

I have a lot of (mostly stylistic) problems with "So You Want To Be a Games Master" by Justin Alexander, but just at the moment I'd give it to a new DM who wants to run & design adventures over the DMG 2024. There's stuff that the new DMG does it should be commended for, but I don't come out...

I find it a profoundly disappointing book. It's not that it's all bad - but a lot of it is superficial, and I feel the style is incredibly handwavy. There's stuff I think is fantastic and I turn the page hoping for a continuation of this usefulness, only to be disappointed. The stuff on chases...

Yeah, that's an awesome analogy. One of the weirdest things is that I see Greyhawk as being incredibly regional in terms of storyline and campaign tone. So, if I run a campaign set in the Great Kingdom I'm likely in a different genre than if I run a campaign set in the Free City of Greyhawk...

Vecna: Eve of Ruin has a Greyhawk chapter. (The Tomb of Horrors one). The dungeon is solid. The setting stuff is what you expect from the Wizards that brought you Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen.

Worth noting that Detect Poison and Disease spell still exists, but now refers to "magical contagion" instead of disease. Unfortunately, the only way of getting rid of a magical contagion in the PHB 2024 is True Resurrection! Cheers, Merric

AD&D is a bit weird, because it's Gary's clean-up of the original Ranger (fan-created) rules for OD&D, which were very definitively based on Aragorn. So, Joe Fischer created the ranger (first presented in The Strategic Review #2). They're always Lawful (the Law-Neutral-Chaos axis was the only...