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A feat would work. I'm also imagining a rewrite of the dragonborn as a more whimsical dragony species, not the traditional more earthy dragonborn. The ability to create magical energy as breath and wings, (with the wing slap built in) now makes more sense, as they are more fae like. They'd...

When we play F20 games, we vastly prefer Level Up or OSE and can't wait for Dolmenwood to be released physically. I find reading 2024 grating. In my mind I'm reaching for a red editing pen, not to fix the grammar, but to untangle some of the sentences and vastly reduce the jargon. The...

My favourites are: Trail of Cthulhu: I really like the investigative system in Gumshoe games Old Gods of Appalachia: I have some qualms with the Cypher system but this game is packed with awesome lore and game hooks Vaesen: I love the folklore horror in this one and the art is fantastic The...

I think at one point Gary said AD&D was for tournaments and Basic for your home games. The term, advanced, however, made fans feel more special. A lot of the ideas in the 1e DMG were never playtested and Gary admitted he never used them himself, so I always wondered how he expected them to be...

No, no no! The warlord is just living on a big beautiful farm.

By this logic, WotC should not publish anything, since there will always be complaining. 😏

It's quite possible our hobbits are the only PCs too.

The D&D designers make monsters, a lot of them. If they can't give fans guidelines for creating new monsters, then something is off. Just tell fans how they do it. 13th Age has an excellent monster creation system because the book gives us procedures the designers used themselves.

Me too. And I miss the little bonuses they granted wizards in 3e. Having a hedgehog granted an armour class boost, a cat gave a boost to stealth, I think a pig gave boost to diplomacy? That was fun. It meant something if your familiar or animal companion got killed. Now you can just resummon...

Just told my husband I'd really like this game under the Christmas tree this year. Thanks for the review!

I was looking forward to this as a fun adventure show. It was disappointing and I just couldn't engage with it.

Could be a very relaxing gaming session. Cakes, tea... Oh and a dead body. 😏

And Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan is an awesome game designer/writer.

This sounds fun! Gumshoe and hobb, I mean halflings, what's not to love?

Last night's session went well. As I mentioned, I started off the campaign with All Hallow's Scream from the mysteries in the core book. The players had a lot of fun interacting with the quirky characters at the Hallowe'en party and exploring the shlocky mansion of retired B movie...

The Between is a game I'm hoping to get my hands on soon!

I'll be running a new Brindlewood Bay campaign this weekend. I have 3 players and they made their Murder Mavens last week. We have: Opal: elderly Goth girl with Dale Cooper move and painting hobby. She's a little bit Addams Family. Violet: cookbook author with Columbo move and the baking...

Because new players and GMs might not realize that players creating their own background features are an option at all. Since D&D is most people's first game, I want the book to encourage as much player creativity as possible. Customizing in 2014 was often ignored because the option was buried...

I can easily see a new player not wanting even more spells. A bard may not want even more ways to inspire and even more instrument proficiencies. Yes, they might, but lots of players won't want their background features being more of what they already do. And the way the book is organized...

I might be wrong, but I remember Crawford stating the background playtest rated very high and would not need tinkering. I'm thinking the loss of customizable backgrounds as a player option is a later decision that came without playtest feedback.