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The one from season 2 involves resurrection of the body but not the character as previously known, from what I understand. Which is the big reason my friend was still upset even after the campaign ended.

Huh. I personally thought the way that went was a lot more interesting than just having Vax die. But I guess that's the difference between watching a story and playing it.

Yeah, that's the impression I got from what I heard. (I never actually watched the campaign, so it's all filtered through what I've heard from others.)

Eh. I've been a DM long enough to know there are ways around that if you want there to be (especially over the next few sessions).

I don't know the details of the "controversy." Were people mad at the guest? Oh, she absolutely will. But it may rake up the trauma and let me in for more ranting. That's what I'm kind of dreading, especially if the show becomes a hit and becomes unavoidably visible in geek spaces. (That said...

How far into the Vox Machina campaign are we? In other words, about how many seasons would it take to animate the whole story? Also: I'm kinda dreading Mighty Nein. I have a good friend who was traumatized because they killed off her favorite character on her birthday, and this is just going to...

My first game was Fantasy Hero. After that, I played D&D 2E a few times when visiting friends, but when I actually found a group and got into gaming on a weekly basis (around 2004), we were playing mostly BESM and GURPS. Later, I taught myself D&D 3.5 so I could run a campaign for an online...

Substitute "ruleset" for "game" and see if that helps. Adventure path versus sandbox being two different ways to use the D&D ruleset (i.e. "same game"). D&D versus any other ruleset (Blades in the Dark, Hillfolk, etc.). We've got multiple threads of conversation in this discussion, but as far...

I don't think this analogy works because you're talking about two different ways to play the same game, rather than two different games.

I wouldn't object to pregens per se, but I'd like to know why the DM isn't letting us make our own characters. Is it to tailor the characters to the setting and storyline? Cool. Is it because the DM doesn't trust the players to make characters correctly or not to make them OP? Less cool (but...

Well, we'll see. I personally will be surprised if they're looking to replace Van Richten's Guide, but it could happen.

They are, however, what differentiates one game from another.

In terms of the pacing of 5E releases, that is soon. In my opinion, at least.

I could be wrong, but I have my doubts that they'll revisit Ravenloft in hardback so soon after Van Richten's Guide. But they clearly have horror-related plans, as evidenced by the recent UA. So if that's not more Ravenloft, what would it be? Maybe a Vecna-style adventure path visiting multiple...

At what point does it stop being conservatism and turn into a simple preference for one game over another?

Also, one person's "rapid rollercoaster" is another person's reasonable pace. That first person's reasonable pace is inevitably someone else's excruciating snail crawl.

Try Kobold Press's various Books of Lairs. They are exactly what you're looking for.

Well, that explains a lot, like how people keep ranting about too much magic and too many hitpoints. For what it's worth, I'm also old enough to remember 1987, but I use PDFs and even Discord freely. I believe @payn is the one you're referring to about milestone experience. I personally prefer...

I guess that's fair. It just seems strange to me that people who spend so much time online, including many who have mentioned running games on VTT, are so resistant to PDF adventures.

I'd love to run or play Courts of the Shadow Fey from Kobold Press. I've been wanting to do something interesting with fey for a while now. I've been running for and playing with groups of 6 or more for the past few years, so I'd like a nice, tight 4-person group that are into in-depth roleplay...