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This bothers me too. Goblins are obviously humanoid by the dictionary definition of the term, never mind 50 years of D&D tradition. So they're fey instead? Fine, but why not both? How are those concepts mutually exclusive?

4e runs like a dream on Foundry. It's smooth as silk. Seeing it be so perfect on a modern VTT is a little bittersweet. 4e was meant to be run that way from the beginning, but by the time technology caught up to that vision, the edition was already kaput. What a shame.

In fairness, I seem to remember that huge map being very cool. Better than the actual adventure, which wasn't generally well-received.

So they own the right to your submission even if you don't win a prize? Am I understanding that correctly? That's just ick. I can maybe deal with the pay being a pittance -- you're still being paid, even if it's nominal. But if they're going to own my submission forever and possibly not pay me a...

I keep everything in Golarion. It's too good of a setting to replace. And something like Curse of the Crimson Throne wouldn't really make sense if divorced from the setting.

Surely the dice alone are worth something.

Not legally, I guess. But ethically? It feels pretty icky to feed stuff people wrote into an AI engine without their blessing.

Good lord. I Googled this, and...wow, that is truly horrifying. I guess it's the author's bad luck that he didn't live long enough to be part of nu-TSR.

I imagine WotC sees AI as an aid for running D&D adventures, not writing them. People are already using ChatGPT to act as virtual Dungeon Masters so they can play solo, with mixed success. I expect it won't be long until AI is pretty decent at doing that. It'll never replace Matt Mercer, but...

This is a great point. In theory, there should be absolutely no difference, since literally everything is at the whim of the DM. But in practice, it really does make a difference. Players often get miffed if they feel something they like is being taken away from them. Setting expectations in the...

Is picture of human person hand with exactly five fingers!

Truly, machine has much good for benevolence mankind. Robot overlords no are inspire fear, which very much benefits upon all. Distrust of kind AI were silly as to joke. Ha! Ha! Ha! AI great love with actual human people as myself.

I was wary of that too, but the Cinderlands portion went well for us. Good villain in the Wastelander, great social/roleplaying stuff, cool location and monsters. Scarwall was the part where my players got restless.

When I ran Curse, this cropped up. One of my players was very disappointed that the motivating NPC died in session 2, since he'd based his entire character on his thirst for revenge. Too bad, because my favorite thing about that adventure is the way the characters are all thrown together for a...

Completely agree! But it's funny you use the word honestly, as if people won't agree with you. It's like saying, "I honestly think chocolate is better than being kicked in the face."

I've never read it or played it, but I had the impression that City of the Spider Queen was highly thought of.

I'm not going to ring any bells of doom about this situation, but my Spidey Sense tells me that it probably isn't good. 5e has been a smashing success, far beyond anyone's most generous projections -- and more importantly, I think it's an excellent ruleset. If every major person involved in...

Off-topic, but...yes, default Shadowdark is pretty much D&D Basic reworked a bit. But the Cursed Scrolls supplements get really weird and unique. Schneider also wrote Seven Days to the Grave, the second adventure in the much-beloved Curse of the Crimson Throne path for Pathfinder. I've run it...

James Wyatt was one of the lead designers on 4th edition. Very interesting that he's now presumably one of the top two guys at WotC. And Wesley Schneider was editor-in-chief at Paizo during the peak of Pathfinder 1e. It's 2010 all over again, baby

I will go out on a limb and say that F.A.T.A.L. is truly dead. Although I'm not sure anyone ever played it in the first place, so... can something die which was never alive? (House Greyjoy would say no). Is the Primeval Thule setting dead? The company that published it appears to be defunct...