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I believe the new model is for WotC to publish the book (or set) which then provides inspiration for community content on DMsGuild. However, if no one bothers to expand on the content at DMsGuild then its not a good sign for the future of that setting. DMsGuild has served as a hold-over for a...

The Jewel of the Seven Stars, too.

For me my "D&D alt" is, in order from most D&D-like to least: Pathfinder 2E Savage Worlds GURPS Dungeon Fantasy The Fantasy Trip Mythras Zweihander

The game inherently supports both approaches (its codified within the Revised rulebook, in fact). The main reason to split XP into two resources is primarily to disabuse players of the notion that the only purpose of XP is to exclusively level up. Once players get into the idea that there are a...

I felt exactly as you did, once. But these days its the only system I tend to really enjoy anymore, so things did change. YMMV of course!

I've been hooked on Cypher System for about 5 years now, after I finally took the time to really try and figure it out. For the longest time I had the game in my collection but found its core conceits just too weird and different for me. When I finally "got it," and started trying the game, I...

I don't think most of that is due to Ed Greenwood's influence, but because of how TSR and then WotC changed their approach to the setting over time. All the really big changes during 4th edition, for example, were to try and simplify the FR and make it more accessible to new gamers, but in the...

At the time, it may have been a major seller, but the brand was mishandled (likely due to issues with EGG) for years after that. WotC tried to earnestly make it the de facto setting for 3rd edition but for reasons I don't know that seemed to fail as well. The one thing I know is that today's...

True, FR succeeded where Greyhawk, as a counterpoint, ultimately failed. The weirdest thing WotC today could do would be to bring Greyhawk back in the 5E/One D&D era.

I did contract work for the Conan RPG with Mongoose in 2004-2005 and was getting paid about $5K for 64 pages of material so yeah, this number seems low. But the mid-eighties were different back then, and the idea that D&D would go way beyond being its own cottage industry seemed like a pipe...

I don't follow, it seems pretty clear to me. When the curse sets in, ask the player if the PC embraces or resists. Then, come full moon, everything hits the fan. When is the full moon? If the world your gaming in hasn't thought to make things weird its pretty safe to assume the fantasyland in...

Although I love this stuff, I found it added way too much prep time to layout all the pieces, which often then get scattered with an accidental move. dry-erase with a blank grid map has always been easier and quicker.

Yeah Quests of Doom are just reprints and not new or revised. Doesn't even look like they upgraded the art?

I suppose it depends on how you wish to define what it takes for something to qualify as a 6th edition. AD&D 1st and 2nd were entirely retro compatible, despite there being some specific technical differences and approach differences between the two editions, and I strongly suspect that the 5E...

They go out of their way to say everything will be retroactively compatible. Your Xbox comparison is unintentionally a good example here as it. in fact, is entirely retro-compatible, and you can play all your Xbox One and almost all Xbox 360 games on your Xbox Series X.

I may be wrong but I thought to cartoon was from the early eighties, so closer to 40 years ago. I don't get it either, and I got in to D&D in 1981 at age 10 and never even knew the cartoon existed until later as an adult. It seemed (to me at the time) like advertising for kids to lead them in...

I feel this deserves elaboration. I'm looking forward to this. I ran a lot of 13th Age at one point and love it, but I also have a medley of minor grievances which ultimately added up to why I don't run the game anymore....which boil down to the following: Icons - the icon influence needs a...

I am totally with you on this. We are nowhere near the apocalyptic ground zero of 2nd Edition elf proliferation, and I love weird fay types in general, so the more freaky elf subtypes the merrier!

I was thoroughly into this preview, love the flavor and style, then read this post which left me feeling like some sort of freaky reality shift. I mean....I don't even....okay then..... EDIT: and finished the posts. I feel for those who are overloaded with elf options (I survived the entirety...

If it means they all stop at some point, find a trainer in town and pay 1,000 GP I will be shocked and amazed.... :ROFLMAO: