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The real thing I'm wondering about is why Mearls is apparently paying monthly for a blue checkmark.

Many mimics develop a fascination for humanoid society, as evidenced by their replication of manufactured objects. Some develop better means of interacting with the wider world around them, such as lessening the magnitude of their adhesives and growing limbs allowing them for finer control. As...

Y'know, there was a prior 5e product and a prior Dungeon Crawl Classics product I reviewed that both had rules for sentient weapons as playable options. Which is a surprisingly large amount, but I ain't complaining. Stories and adventures abound of Intelligent Weapons, from the prototypical...

Gremlins are fey beings with an intuitive understanding of objects, their foundations, and how to jinx others with bad luck. They thus find it easy to put their talents to destructive ends, and are more likely than not to be evil. But this doesn’t necessarily mean that this is the vast majority...

Dungeons are typically thought of as places and things, lairs containing a dizzying amount of creatures, traps, and environments. Nothing is out of the question when venturing into such eldritch areas. But sometimes they get even stranger, and awaken to a state of self-awareness with a distinct...

As the writer of said product, thank you for your detailed and honest review. If I were to write it again, there's quite a few changes I would make. As can be evidenced by my recent Let's Read, expanding playable options of less conventional humanoids in fantasy RPGs is an enduring interest of...

While rare in terms of numbers, doppelgangers are incredibly spread out and can be found in almost every humanoid society. Their vaunted shape-changing ability lets them seamlessly blend in with the majority population, which gives them a reputation as untrustworthy manipulators. While such...

Several of the Battlezoo books were published a few years before Remastered and 5.5 D&D, so they do make mention of legacy mechanics here and there. The only Battlezoo Ancestries book that is being made with 5.5 mechanics is the Year of Titans series, given that its KickStarter was released...

Roll For Combat Store Page. Foundry VTT Store Page (5e). Foundry VTT Store Page (Pf2e). Roll for Combat is a third party publisher that makes products for 5th Edition D&D and Pathfinder 2nd Edition. Mark Seifter, one of the writers, was one of the co-designers for the latter game, meaning...

Glorious Legends of Sorcery & Sword: Kobold Class for Dungeon Crawl Classics Drive-Thru RPG Store Page. Itchio Store Page. Class available as a free article on the official site. At first a creator of third party 5th Edition products for the al-Qadim setting, Miniature Giant Space Hamster...

DM's Guild Store Page. Back in 2021, a group of gamers got together under the moniker of Giant Space Hamster Press to write an in-depth 5th Edition update to the Al-Qadim setting. As it was technically set within the Forgotten Realms, the product was permissible under WotC's fan content policy...

Feel free to do so, and others can as well. Just keep in mind that I can’t guarantee I will review them.

I haven't heard of it until now, thank you for bringing it to my attention! From what I can tell from the product blurb, it looks more of a DM's toolkit type of book with NPCs, so it would be outside the focus of this thread unless it does have character option rules. Right now I plan to review...

Itchio Store Page Goodman Games Store Page Dungeon Crawl Classics is an odd duck in the OSR space. More willing to make major rules departures from the Editions it emulates in favor of a gonzo feel, its products are more than willing to embrace the weirder side of fantasy. DCC’s bestiary has...

The Monster Team, by Ioana-Muresan of Deviantart. The worlds of Dungeons & Dragons, and its many inspirational spin-offs, are filled with all kinds of intelligent life forms. Elves, beholders, and countless creatures more derived from all manner of older folklore and recent pop culture. Only a...

Just picked up Rival Academies and NPC Core sourcebooks for Pathfinder 2nd Edition. Had some time to skim through the latter, I like what I see. Has a good amount of stock character archetypes, and also has alternative "challenge levels" for NPCs specialized in certain non-combat tasks. For...

Right now I'm listening to the Dungeon Dudes' campaign for Dungeons of Drakkenheim. Their current campaign, Fate of Drakkenheim, is a continuation of their old campaign in the same fictional universe. I'm also a fan of 3d6 Down the Line, who specialize in OSR modules; currently listening to...

I used to use Roll20, but it failed me on multiple accounts. Once I finished DMing Curse of Strahd, I migrated over to Foundry, of which I'm a player in 2 games for. It's been a wholesale improvement.

Appendices would normally begin with a listing of ship Upgrades, but as we reviewed those in an earlier post, we instead begin with some new Items. The majority of them are magical, and unlike typical 5e products the magic items have listed prices for PCs wishing to buy them with gold or...

I've been meaning to add it (as well as Pugmire, Historia, and some others), but as I haven't gotten around to reading or skimming the book I would prefer to do a write-up once I'm more familiar with the lore and options. Beast World, Humblewood, etc I'd classify as "furry-centric" as well as...