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I'll give you one of my examples. I was running it for my group. In a two-hour game, the group exploring the 1st level found an immense room that had as its solitary detail a single dwarven boot. Granted, the path they took was not especially interesting, but it ended up "empty room after...

It's bad. It's boring. It's incomplete. In my group it's described as the "big, empty dungeon of nothing." It's basically the equivalent of someone just drawing a bunch of rooms on graph paper with nothing to fill them. Just download some free maps from Dyson Logos and populate them yourself.

GM has enough responsibilities than to need to rebalance the game, restructure the flow of combats, figure out how to give non-magical healing, etc. If the players don't want to play the game on its terms, then the GM might need to pick a game that's not based on team-oriented play. Do Call of...

I'd like to rediscover the joy of gaming again. I'd like to put my creativity into games instead of running pre-designed adventures that follow a script. I'd like a "home base" of a system that I can be familiar enough with to let me not stress about learning mechanics and searching for the...

I have two weekly games and two games that are biweekly, averaging to 3 times per week. I also have a game that is roughly once a month, so we'll go with 3.25 sessions a week.

I have a gaming table. It can pretty comfortably seat 6-8 players. It has a recessed area for board games, attachments for drink holders, a DM side extension, plug-ins for charging electronics. It was one of the cheapest options on the market, and the company is now defunct. Is it MUCH better...

I think they're usually under your account. I had 1, and it was a source of shame and embarrassment. I never want to get another.

I bemoaned Eberron when it was first released in 3.5 ("no airships and robots in MY D&D!") and my 4E purchases were pretty light, so I never got the Eberron books for 4E. I picked up the Rising from the Last War when it was on deep, deep discount on Amazon several years ago. Only now am I...

For me, magic item values in later editions were a helpful addition. Too many times I've encountered an AD&D (or now 5e game) that has gotten extremely off course because a low level character got a magic item that was too powerful. I don't think magic items need to be in magic shops, but some...

My Kickstarter PDFs were fulfilled through DriveThru. I last downloaded them on Jan 21, 2025. The files are all designated "v 2." However, there isn't a clear indication which printing they are within the text. It still contains this confusing text (that has probably been errata'd) on p 450 of...

One of the things that I liked in 2E was that optional rules were in the PHB: Secondary Skills, Proficiencies, Individual Initiative, Weapon vs. Armor, Classes aside from the "Core 4," etc. It showed to the players that DMs can customize the rules, instead of hiding all that in the DMG where...

Something about the D&DNext playtest felt more like 2E than 5E later turned out feeling. It could be that I had been playing 4E, so the callback was more pronounced. But then 2014 5E felt more like 2E than "later day" 5E did (probably post-Tasha was when I first noticed it).

No. It is not available to peruse locally. However, it seems like it would be simpler just to reduce character Hit Points than change the damage of everything.

I tried using that as the basis of my recent 9-month 4E campaign. No one really interacted with it, however. We ended up spending most of our time in a standard dungeon crawl before having a terrible experience with Madness at Gardmore Abbey (despite the fact I loved it when I ran it a decade ago).

I guess my experience with 2E was different. I didn't interact with the lore at all. I didn't collect the campaign settings and didn't read the novels. Or play the CRPGs. Some of the feeling was from the art. They didn't have "one unified brand." The artwork showed a variety of campaigns, as...

AD&D 2nd edition is at my nostalgic core for TTRPGs. It was my first edition. It was the one game that I felt got "yanked out" from me when my players demanded we upgrade to a very different 3rd edition. It was the home of my longest and most "meaningful" campaign (in case you're wondering, it...

The interview was interesting. I wish Stan!'s voice was louder and his doodling is clearly taxing the computing power. 5E might be like 2E without the HP bloat. HP and the preponderance of healing are what keep 5E from being backwards compatible with the older products and frankly makes the...

I don't need the 3D maps, but the automation is nice. Of course, I play more PF2 so that's more of a thing with that system. Still, having stuff like tracking spell slots and ammunition, being able to highlight a group of enemies and roll saves, apply damage, etc. That would be helpful to have...

I find that there is a gamist need for certain games to have low level "fodder" bad guy statblocks. These can be bandits, guards, or whatever. I have used generic elves, dwarves, gnomes, etc, as antagonists in certain adventures. As long as there's something mechanical, I can add details to say...

It hurts when I'm not the smartest (or most educated) player at the table. I'm barely in the Top 10, and there are four of us.