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  1. Juomari Veren

    D&D 5E (2014) New Unearthed Arcana: Heroes of Krynn Revisited

    The amount of knowledge I have on Dragonlance could fill a thimble, but didn't Raistlin bounce around robe colors on occasion? I'd argue that someone who can turn one way and then redeem themselves another fits the mold of "good black robe and evil white robe". I have no strong feelings of...
  2. Juomari Veren

    D&D 5E (2014) New Unearthed Arcana: Heroes of Krynn Revisited

    That breaks my heart in two. I've never hated a UA feature more than that Moon Sorcerer. The tables were too thick, the paragraphs were overwhelmingly populous, it was a nightmare before they even added formatting and visual polish to it! And that poor pre-revision Kender, I don't know how...
  3. Juomari Veren

    D&D 5E (2014) New Unearthed Arcana: Heroes of Krynn Revisited

    Still not a big fan of free feats from backgrounds, for the simple reason that most of the feats they offer here are incredibly bloated with little benefits all over. I'm also surprised that it seems they took incredibly little input from the survey, besides the Kender being fey-adjacent (but...
  4. Juomari Veren

    Dragonlance DRAGONLANCE is coming this year!

    I would like to think that these people knew what they were getting themselves into when they sold their rights. Besides, Ed is incredibly laissez-faire with the Realms, otherwise he probably would've piped up 8 years ago when they decided to make his world the main setting for the game to be...
  5. Juomari Veren

    Dragonlance DRAGONLANCE is coming this year!

    In prior D&D crossovers, Planeswalkers are just used to signify particular creatures or characters of note that have the ability to transcned their plane or whose reach extends well beyond their home plane (such as Mordenkainen, Bahamut, Lolth, and Zariel). It's a much lower bar to clear than...
  6. Juomari Veren

    Dragonlance DRAGONLANCE is coming this year!

    In anime that's called an isekai, they're very popular. I prefer the faux-intellectual ones where people just stand around and muse on the blurring of reality and fantasy using the game as digital escapist medium (like .hack). Most of the other ones out there either lean into the concept without...
  7. Juomari Veren

    Dragonlance DRAGONLANCE is coming this year!

    Demonstrably false. They just released an art deco 1920's mafia set, and I have such a mighty need for it to be turned into a D&D book.
  8. Juomari Veren

    WotC WotC to power other IPs with D&D and M:TG

    That won't be an issue, the Power Rangers one in particular was incredibly rough and didn't read well. I hear the G.I. Joe one fares a bit better, but the PR one didn't even have stats for NPCs! Plus it only really covered the first few seasons lore-wise, which isn't surprising since those are...
  9. Juomari Veren

    D&D 5E (2014) Dragons of Stormwreck Isle: New D&D Starter Set Is Coming This Year

    I'm the only person at the table who's done it twice, and I did it on opposite sides of the screen both times. Everyone else had a single go-around. This is purely from the standpoint of people who played through it once, and thus far are enjoying our romp through the area with a fresh set of...
  10. Juomari Veren

    D&D 5E (2014) Dragons of Stormwreck Isle: New D&D Starter Set Is Coming This Year

    As someone who's played and run Lost Mine, is running Dragon of Icespire Peak currently, and every player in that campaign also having already played Lost Mine - Incredibly hard disagree. It's not even close how much more enjoyable DoIP is. Plus, that doesn't really change my statement - The...
  11. Juomari Veren

    D&D 5E (2014) Paizo's 'The Abomination Vaults' Pathinder AP Coming to 5E

    I don't know how familiar you are with Paizo, but most of their APs go that way, albeit with different backdrops and starting events, as well as some ramping up at drastically different rates. And to be fair, WoTC hasn't really been doing that recently. The adventure anthologies aside (which...
  12. Juomari Veren

    D&D 5E (2014) Paizo's 'The Abomination Vaults' Pathinder AP Coming to 5E

    I doubt they made an entirely new version of their system just to turn around and release 5e conversions of everything, but I wouldn't be surprised if their long-term plan wasn't to continue to capitalize on the very same licensing that allowed them to branch off of WoTC in the first place...
  13. Juomari Veren

    D&D 5E (2014) Paizo's 'The Abomination Vaults' Pathinder AP Coming to 5E

    Maybe Goodman Games will use the leverage and goodwill they've generated from the classic adventures they've published to ask them for the ability to publish some of those Dragon APs.
  14. Juomari Veren

    D&D 5E (2014) Paizo's 'The Abomination Vaults' Pathinder AP Coming to 5E

    Oh, I never said that there was too many choices, just that you make more of them in PF2E than you do in 5e. Overall, it definitely compounds into more little valves and knobs you can use to tweak your characters, but that's not a bad thing at all, especially since most of them are actual...
  15. Juomari Veren

    D&D 5E (2014) Paizo's 'The Abomination Vaults' Pathinder AP Coming to 5E

    As someone who wasn't surprised but was disappointed that of all of the game studios they could've loaned the rights to create an official 5e module for (Kobold Press, Green Ronin, AND Sasquatch?) that Paizo never got the opportunity, but the SRD has quickly righted that it seems. I don't not...
  16. Juomari Veren

    D&D 5E (2014) Dragons of Stormwreck Isle: New D&D Starter Set Is Coming This Year

    Given that the Essentials Kit was a backdoor push of new rules (Sidekicks) that later got expanded upon and reprinted, I wouldn't be surprised if this was our first official taste of some of the rereleased core rules actually, especially if it really does have a $50 price tag. Some things that...
  17. Juomari Veren

    RuneScape: World's Oldest Free MMORPG Comes To Tabletop

    As someone who's sunk an immeasurable amount of time into every iteration of Runescape, and still hasn't reached the current level cap, I'm very excited for this.
  18. Juomari Veren

    Making it All Up (With Help)

    Dang, those Scrying Stones look so nice I wish I had a solid golden gauntlet to display them all in! All of these types of products are usually intirguing to me, but I never know which one to really buy. I need so many things, and while there probably isn't an all in one product, I don't know...
  19. Juomari Veren

    D&D 5E (2014) In Scarlet Flames/The Hidden Page: 2 of 5 Free D&D Adventures from WotC

    I actually like it too. It's terrible, but in a lovable way. How is that possible?
  20. Juomari Veren

    TSR Just when you thought it was all over.... now there’s a fourth TSR!

    It's like a spelling and grammar hydra, cut one head off and the two that grow back spell worse than the last ones. But hey, at least Ernie allowed someone who works for him to say that he thinks trans lives matter instead of just doing it himself, so I guess we're at least growing in some ways.
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