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Yep. And to be fair, they were kinda rubbish and I don't in the least blame anyone who didn't buy one. I ended up with a copy of the boardgame because i bought it in the deluxe bundle, which arrived in my country a solid 3-4 months ahead of the book alone. It just seemed - pointless. Limited...

I entirely agree with you about the prominence of the DL novels over the modules in the public nerd consciousness. The whole story of Rastlin and Caramon, and the death of Sturm, and even bloody Tasselhoff's pickpocketing are 100% THE iconic elements of Dragonlance, and they're all straight...

That's a bit of a chicken-egg question. The gods departed Krynn (and took all their spellcasting clerics with them) a considerable time before the Cataclysm. It was I believe meant to be a sign of godly disapproval and a warning to Istar to change their ways, but didn't get read that way...

I heartily agree, but I don’t think the difficulty of doing that is the major barrier to it being made. The risk-averse nature of the money people who look at the source and think ‘oh crap, x and y and z will get us panned’ is certainly a bigger one, admittedly. I mean, LotR made a bunch of...

A live-action dragonlance done to modern sensibilities would certainly require change but would be far from impossible. If could have had enough landmines to make risk-averse Hasbro execs nervous though. I wonder if they just saw a BG3 adaptation as a safer and more zeitgeisty option.

Yeah, that's kinda what I expected. Disappointing, but realistically they were never going to rewrite the whole thing from scratch like I wanted to see. At least one subclass based on actual performing is a nice and very overdue change though. Capstone abilities are relevant in...

So, as someone who's largely missed the playtests, what DOES the UA bard look like? I've found it one of the most confused classes in 5e - it's a performer that doesn't need to perform, and turning it into a full spellcaster has hamstrung the customisability of it to fit other archetypes and...

Yeah, I'm DMing tabletop now for the first time in over a decade, and the mini thing is pretty hard to come at. I've got a load of old prepainted minis from the 3e era, so i can cover a lot of the bases for most routine combats, but the price point for more specialised stuff is kinda daunting...

Honestly, I'm not so sure? The vast vast majority of kickstarters seem to get delivered. Late, usually, but they get there within a not-ludicrous timeframe (and honestly, anyone backing a KS probably should factor in a reasonable 'inevitable time overrun' buffer, especially if any physical...

The Factions and Threats section of this book is utterly great, and anyone writing a setting book (including WotC, who did something very similar in Eberron and promptly forgot about it) could be well advised to read and learn from. Normally when i read a setting book that I like, I'm...

There hasn’t been a WotC in literal decades that wasn’t just a branch of Hasbro that stuck a different logo on its products and did its social media with a different Twitter handle. I started up a new D&D group recently. It’s going well so far! Four out of six of the group have only ever known...

Yeah, it leaves most of the domain decisions up to the DM, there’s nothing prescribed. Although it does explicitly state that the adventure and world setting are built on the assumption that the abrahamic god is the only god. Some 5e domains like Death and maybe Trickery seem like a stretch, but...

From memory (i could be wrong here), they didn't really grasp that nettle, instead just basically assuming that full plate exists with its PHB stats, but that it's made of something other than metal. Purely a cosmetic change. I found it a bit unsatisfying, but I don't entire blame them. The...

First session of the new campaign! Dragonlance, stealing the early bits of Shadow of the Dragon Queen then heading off in an entirely different direction. PCs meeting each other, roleplaying out the paladin getting his holy calling, fighting some draconians, meeting a few NPCs, saving some and...

Presumably, given he's been at WotC, he's got a pretty good idea what 5.5 will look like, so he's probably able to be ahead of the curve with making anything he does compatible with the new core books.

Is what you really need strong continuity rather than a strong villain then? Candlekeep is a strongly location-driven adventure. PCs hang around the place the majority of the campaign, get invested in recurring NPCs etc. I suppose the key to a good campaign is emotional involvement, and...

I suppose the classic structure for using a recurring villain in a narrative where protagonists are expected to advance in capability, is Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy. First act, when they encounter him, early on when he can easily crush them, he doesn't even really pay much...

Urgh. This is going to be more stupidity and unpleasantness, isn't it? I wouldn't be at all surprised if this product isn't just loaded with nasty caricatures and personal attacks against his enemies. Like that time that V:tM writer stuck a child molester character in one of their products...

So here's a question. What published previous-edition campaigns do this best? What are the classics that get it right? Which ones set up the best villain, have the villain most central, and keep the PCs involved with (or aware of) the villain all the way through? It's not an easy thing to...

This was one of the big problems i had with SotDQ. Lord Soth is all over the cover art, and has something of a presence through the campaign, but you never get to speak to him, and because he's a big marketable canon character with a canon history and destiny, the adventure doesn't want to...