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God, yes. This can be a big problem with PF 1e stuff (I don't know about 2e material). For example, the megadungeon that is the 5th module in the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path is much, much, much too big for 5e. I cut out all the sub-floors and it was still overwhelming. It took...

Reading this article filled me with joy/disgust. These morons/geniuses will end up saving/killing our game. In a just world, they would all be executed/given dictatorial power over everything. But seriously, I like this a lot. I'm generally tepid on the 250-page super adventure format, and I'm...

I love the idea of this book. D&D really needs more short adventures -- call me a grognard, but I think the prevalence of massive hardbacks and adventure paths has probably not been good for the game. Ten adventures in one hardcover means each individual adventure will be roughly the size of a...

Down to the last 24 hours! In order to be funded, the Kickstarter needs to do better than $-2,205,170 over the last day.

To prove it's still a good game even without the massive dollar total, Kelsey should give half of the two million to me.

Supposedly he was behind the proposal to make crafting older cards in Arena cost twice as many wildcards, which was met with absolute fury from the player base (and was thankfully abandoned). If that's true -- and to be fair, underline the word "if" -- this guy has quite the record of doing...

I thought the hexcrawl part of Tomb of Annihilation was hit-or-miss. Some really fun encounters, some pretty blah ones. But the dungeon at the end was absolutely exquisite. It brought back vivid memories of going through Tomb of Horrors as a kid, but also had some clever modern touches. Fusing...

The new necromancer is awesome. Not what I was expecting, but in a good way. Realistically it might end up being weaker than the wizard, but in terms of flavor it blows the wizard out of the water. When I finally get the chance to play this bad boy I might slather myself in eyeliner like a...

As the old joke goes: who is we, kemosabe? I don't have any right, because I'm not a game manufacturer. But what about the people who are? We probably have some reading this very thread. Don't they have a right to know what this organization is doing in their name? This is a trade association...

I play and run a lot of games with strangers on Warhorn, Discord, etc. and more than once I've encountered players who are surprised (and sometimes annoyed) that something in 5e works differently than it did in BG3. I would say that's pretty clear proof that BG3 brought those people into...

Yeah, I was already peeved about Command. The fact you have to choose from a menu in the 2024 version is doubly bad. I'm not inflexible -- I admit that sometimes you need to loosen restrictions. If Vicious Mockery only worked on creatures who spoke your language, it might be too narrow to be...

Possibly a bit off-topic, but this thread made me realise that Tasha's Hideous Laughter now affects enemies regardless of INT score. I hate that. There's no reason a creature of bestial intelligence should be vulnerable. It makes no sense (how do you make a stone golem laugh?) and removes a...

New starter set where the pregens are all the BG3 NPCs. Includes a pre-painted miniature for each. There you go. If such a thing existed, there is zero chance I don't own it, in spite of my more-or-less personal boycott of WotC. Would that bring gobs of newbies over to tabletop D&D? Well, it...

In fairness, that post is taking about level 20 fighters. I can't condemn 5e because of the shenanigans possible at max level, where your character is practically a demi-God. That said, it is nice to go back to Shadowdark where even skeletons are terrifying.

There's literally no telling how much growth Sigil might have been able to add. But we'll never know. No telling what might have happened if they'd tapped into the insane popularity of BG3, either. It's like Larian won the lottery on WotC's behalf, and then Wizards cashed that in by...doing...

I didn't get the impression that the author of the article was doing any such thing. The point is that the massive success of BG3 is a huge opportunity -- one that Wizards has largely squandered. Ditto for Critical Role. It's not as if D&D isn't successful at the moment, but considering the...

Accidental double post

You lost me here. I'm not aware of the Gamergate crowd being especially enamored of BG3, and I find it very hard to imagine, given that game features two of the most badass females in the history of video games, neither of which is at all conventionally attractive. Also tons of gay-coding up to...

John Cena catching strays in here

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