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I agree with Aramis. The storyline adventures are likely for the near-term to begin at level 1 and for the in-store Encounters to work the same way. The reason is that in-store programs are designed to draw in new players more than they are meant to maintain invested players, because invested...

I have updated the main thread now that Wizards and the Adventurers League have announced the upcoming storyline season, Elemental Evil! As with Tyranny of Dragons, Elemental Evil ties together a number of offerings all around a central story. The adventure, Princes of the Apocalypse, is the...

4 out of 5 rating for Shadow on the Moonsea Shadows Over the Moonsea was a lot of fun when I played it at Gen Con 2014. We had a mix of new and established players at the table, and they all had a great time. The adventure had some very fun combats (one was particularly challenging) and some...

4 out of 5 rating for Secrets of Sokol Keep We had a great time playing this at Gen Con. A common sentiment seems to be that it can be confusing, and in some cases it was, but it was still a lot of fun for us. We liked the different elements brought into the adventure which created a compelling...

4 out of 5 rating for The Courting of Fire When I read this adventure I was worried the investigative scenes would fall flat - they seemed simplistic. I've run this adventure at least five times at PAX Prime 2014, and I was really impressed with how it actually ran. The investigative portion is...

5 out of 5 rating for Defiance in Phlan This is an exemplary adventure - so good it should be mandatory reading for every organized play author who is writing an introductory scenario. The task behind this adventure was supremely challenging for an author: write five 45-minute adventures, each...

4 out of 5 rating for Legacy of Fire Adventure Path We had a blast with the majority of this adventure path. It does a great job of capturing the setting. Locations are distinct, flavorful, and interesting. NPCs and NPC foes are cool and captivating. The plot is engaging and as players we...

2 out of 5 rating for Kingmaker Adventure Path There are some great concepts in play here, and we had a great DM, but the source material tries to embrace the sandbox concept and suffers for it. The concept is that the players will carve out their own kingdom, exploring lands as they choose and...

4 out of 5 rating for Age of Worms Adventure Path This is one of the beautiful artifacts of the lost age know as "pre-edition wars", when Wizards and Paizo collaborated. Here, the Paizo editors and writers (many of whom were at the time in the employ of Wizards or former staff) worked to craft...

3 out of 5 rating for Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Core Rulebook This book has a beautiful artistic quality befitting the rich Star Wars universe, bringing it to life. The rules have many bright points, working to promote flexible characters and interesting results that trigger story. However...

4 out of 5 rating for Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Beginner Game This is an excellent boxed set with everything you need to have a (provided) adventure in the world of Star Wars. The components have excellent artistic value and are suitably constructed to be used several times. The adventure...

2 out of 5 rating for Iron Kingdoms Core Rules This is a really beautiful book and overall it is a fun game. However, the game seemed to our group to suffer from insufficient playtesting and poor mechanical design. Character options often had traps, obviously stronger options, and dead ends...

5 out of 5 rating for 13th Age Bestiary This book should be a reference for designers of any RPG, because it takes the traditional monster manual and re-invents it for maximum flavor and utility. You can't help but read these monster entries and want to use them in your game. Each entry is full...

The Winter Fantasy convention just opened judge registration. Judging at this convention is a ton of fun. You can get loot, a free badge, and even a free hotel room. It is an excellent way to pick up DM skills and learn from other players, judges, and organized play organizers. As it is a...

5 out of 5 rating for 13th Age Core Book 13th Age is a superb game. It is a completely different approach to 5E, feeling much more like a mix of 4E and previous editions (rather than combining all editions equally). It shows its heritage, being created by designers of 3E and 4E, with the result...

3 out of 5 rating for Numenera Core Rulebook This game suffers from unrealistic expectations and an incredible amount of attention. In truth, this is a fairly simple Indie-style game. The core rules needed to play the game would fill just a small booklet... so small that you wouldn't need to...

5 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Starter Set I have now used the Starter Set with four different groups. The first was with 6 kids from our neighborhood, ages 7-12. I then ran it again for a group including a father and his 10 yr-old son. I've then run it in for two other groups of new...

5 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Basic Rules Overall, this is a free product that provides excellent content to anyone that wants to play D&D. This is fantastic for the growth of our hobby.But, the file could be reshaped to be less like a PH without images and more like an intro for new...

4 out of 5 rating for D&D Icons of the Realms Starter Set The Starter Set minis are created by WizKids under a license with Wizards of the coast. The set contains the 5 race/class combinations found in the pregens for the 5E Starter Set, plus a Drizzt mini. The Starter Set minis have a nice...

5 out of 5 rating for D&D 5th Edition Player's Handbook For all that the various beta playtest packages gave us reason to worry, the final 5E PH pulled everything together and smoothed out nearly all the rough edges. The book is gorgeous and incredibly well written. The rules are elegant, speak...