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Yes, yes it is. Not really. If the book had the 40-pages of monsters the other setting books had on average, and comparably large sections on "building adventures" and the introductory adventure, the book would be 240-pages easily. Heck, if it were designed like the other campaign settings...

Thinking on that bard cantrip I mentioned earlier, seemed like a good idea to write it up for 5e as an example of what I'm talking about: Inspire Courage cantrip enchantment Casting Time: 1 action Range: 60 feet Components: V Duration: Instantaneous With your words or a song you encourage an...

The catch is that's still not much. A 5th level bard will be lucky to have 18 Charisma and use their Inspiration/ Words of Power four times between rests. If you have three combats, that's once per combat with a spare use. It's something you'll use once at the start of an encounter and then skip...

I did also do a few bard-focused spells for my book 'o homebrew. Allegro 8th-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 60 feet Components: V, S, M (a coffee bean) Duration: Concentration, up to 8 hours You produce a lively toe-tapping rhythm that accelerates up to 6 creatures of your...

I've been avoiding these forums the past while. But I need a distraction, AND the bard's design is something that has bugged me since release (and prior, since I was not fond of the playtest and super disappointed that they left the bard until the very end when it's arguably one of the hardest...

Breaking this down, you write a 500 word monster entry, where you have the chance of “winning” a $25 prize. Which is like writing a freelance monster for $0.05 per word, or half the typical freelance rate of ten cents per word. The total prizes for the is $5,500, for the 101 entries. Which...

I’m hard on licensed RPGs and had super low expectations of Alien RPG and it blew me away. I want to play it and run it, and it just became my go-to October one-shot RPG, supplanting Dread. Even if you want to drop the Xenomorphs and do Event Horizon or even Predator it would work. If you...

At a quick, casual glance the Witcher RPG looks good. Gorgeous art and a clean layout. But once you look closer or hit the rules the game begins to seem clunky and dated, potentially slow and fiddly with a surprising amount of imbalance and almost retro design. The more you look past the art and...

A month ago I had little interest in the Aliens Roleplaying Game. It looked okay and sure did get a lot of hype, but I generally thumb my nose at licensed RPGs (despite owning many); the hit : miss ratio is unfavourable and there have been some pretty bad licensed RPGs over the years. Plus, I...

If you don’t own a prior edition’s version of the Eberron setting (or the Wayfinder’s Guide to Eberron) but the setting sounds interesting, then I heartily recommend that you buy this book. There’s multiple new mechanical options as well as a great campaign setting that can send you on endless...

I loved the world and style of Eclipse Phase when I discovered the ruleset back in 2011. But, at the time, the rules felt too heavy and character generation too dense for a game I would likely use for mini-campaigns and one-shots. With some reluctance, I set the game aside and moved onto other...

The D&D Essentials Kit is a decent starter box. Arguably one of the best starter boxes D&D has ever done. Because it includes character generation and tries to walk brand new players through the game, it’s an excellent product for players new to RPGs in general and D&D in specific. And the...

After succumbing to sandbox fatigue, my expectations for Descent into Avernus were low. I was expecting more of the same… but in the Nine Hells. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised how the adventure presented a linear adventure with a solid story that has an assumed climax and dramatic ending...

3 out of 5 rating for Pathfinder Core Rulebook 2nd Edition Unlike the playtest for 5th Edition D&D, which was more of a series of concept tests, the Pathfinder 2 playtest was very much about testing the game, and was intended to balance of the new edition. The final product of Pathfinder 2 is...

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4 out of 5 rating for Acquisitions Incorporated This is an exceeding tricky book to evaluate. The audience for this book is the narrow group that plays D&D but also enjoys the Penny Arcade live games. I’m uncertain how it will be received by D&D fans who aren’t Acquisitions Incorporated...

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4 out of 5 rating for Ghosts of Saltmarsh This book is what Tales From the Yawning Portal should have been. It’s not just random adventures slapped together but a series that is connected, both thematically and potentially as a campaign. And the inclusion of lesser known adventures great...

I don't deserve this. ENWorld has just become a site I visit to argue and become frustrated. And I think this is the straw. So yes, I think I will.