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    RPG Crowdfunding News – Invisible Sun, Reaper Miniatures, Templars & Tyrants, and more

    I’m legit curious about this product too. I’m not churchy but neither am I offended by it. In particular I’m curious how well this game integrates fun gameplay with pedagogy. I should probably keep my expectations low because educational games (Biblical or otherwise) are typically pretty lame...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Justin Alexander's review of Shattered Obelisk is pretty scathing

    Yes, I gave you a like when you originally posted it, but went back and upgraded it to a love.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Justin Alexander's review of Shattered Obelisk is pretty scathing

    Okay, perhaps a brainstorming session: How can we make the five factions more relevant to this plot? (Lord’s Alliance, Zhentarim, Order of the Gauntlet, Harpers, and Emerald Enclave) The original adventure leaves the faction engagement very open ended—it didn’t affect the original plot much...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Justin Alexander's review of Shattered Obelisk is pretty scathing

    It would’ve been cool if Phandelver and beyond was fleshed out as a local setting, and then chapters featuring different genre-takes on the same setting. It seems like even WotC realized that the psionics and body-horror themes of Shattered Obelisk are a major break with the tone of LMoP...
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    Player Core and Gamemaster Core Remastered Review

    It’s the same ruleset, just tweaked to remove OGL content. But it should be fully compatible.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Justin Alexander's review of Shattered Obelisk is pretty scathing

    I see what you’re saying here and agree that 5E has been a runaway success because of a number of factors. But (controversy ahead!) I strongly believe that the 5E ruleset is, at best, a mid-sized factor in the explosion of popularity for D&D over the past decade. I truly believe the biggest...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Justin Alexander's review of Shattered Obelisk is pretty scathing

    Fully agreed. Dragon of Icespire Peak was definitely a less cohesive, less complete adventure than Lost Mine of Phandelver, but it did flesh out the same area to an extent. But when I previously suggested that this new product should integrate both and make a thorough mini-setting of the...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Justin Alexander's review of Shattered Obelisk is pretty scathing

    Fair enough! I guess I’m hoping for suggestions and solutions
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    D&D 5E (2014) Justin Alexander's review of Shattered Obelisk is pretty scathing

    This thread has turned into talking about “Where did that hydra come from?” and “This map doesn’t need a key!” for so many pages that all the other criticisms are being drowned out. Personally, the point from the review that concerns me the most is that the new content isn’t integrated in an...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Justin Alexander's review of Shattered Obelisk is pretty scathing

    You’re right, PotA is basically “One Huge Dungeon” (well, 13 large dungeons all directly linking to each other). But that fact by itself is compounded a couple of ways: 1) it’s an elemental adventure, so a lot of the enemies are the same flavour in each segment, which gets repetitive; and 2) 5E...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Justin Alexander's review of Shattered Obelisk is pretty scathing

    That’s true. I actually quite liked running Elemental Evil/Princes of the Apocalypse BUT by the end we were all finding it pretty tedious—lots of colour-coded dungeon crawling there. My favorite parts were all custom segments I wrote for my party, not written into the module. Overall that module...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Justin Alexander's review of Shattered Obelisk is pretty scathing

    Definitely not anyone I blocked, I checked and my blocklist remains empty. Must be someone blocking me. Well shucks, thanks mate! You too! I’m gonna be riding that compliment all day. 😃
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    D&D 5E (2014) Justin Alexander's review of Shattered Obelisk is pretty scathing

    Ahh thank you. That’s disappointing. Genuinely unsure what I must’ve said to offend someone so badly as to earn a block. (I’m guessing this person must be fairly active in this thread given the number of places that seem to be missing something.)
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    D&D 5E (2014) Justin Alexander's review of Shattered Obelisk is pretty scathing

    (Sorry to interject, but who are you replying to? Idk maybe the page isn’t loading correctly for me, but I can’t see a quote in your comment and it doesn’t seem like you’re replying to the comment before. Just curious, sorry!) EDIT: There are other comments that seem to be missing quotes too...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Justin Alexander's review of Shattered Obelisk is pretty scathing

    I’m one of those people who generally considered Tyranny of Dragons to be “the worst”. But to be more accurate, I actually felt that adventure has an awesome ending but starts out weak. My main complaint was always with Horde of the Dragon Queen (the first half of the adventure), partly because...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Justin Alexander's review of Shattered Obelisk is pretty scathing

    Thanks for sharing this! Lots of excellent context.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Justin Alexander's review of Shattered Obelisk is pretty scathing

    Who here is doing that? Personally I don’t care about several of The Alexandrian’s points, including the hydra. However, I do care a lot about how well-integrated the new content is with the old content, so this review is extremely useful for telling me how badly the new enemies are integrated...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Justin Alexander's review of Shattered Obelisk is pretty scathing

    Well, if merely “putting adventure ideas out there” is their goal (and I agree with you that it isn’t), then WotC is choosing a very inefficient format to do so. They could put a lot more adventure ideas in a much smaller, less expensive product.
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