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Reynard's game philosophy here seem a little chaotic for me, but I don't think I'm that far off either. My usual group are all close friends, I know they aren't bad actors, so I allow them to make characters without any input, using official materials. Anything 3rd party I would ask to see...

Forgotten Realms, though its a love-hate relationship. With so many different authors over so many years, I think the setting has an identity problem and has become a bit too generic in modern versions. However I really love the old-school Greenwood stuff, which feels far more consistent and...

I dunno if I'd say that. I just wish Pathfinder had Beholders and the Warlock class, as an example.

Pathfinder 2nd Edition has been my main game for the last year. I'm Satisfied with it. The reason it isn't higher is mostly for what I've lost, coming from D&D. Certain OGL creatures, spells, classes, etc that I had to leave behind. The remaster added on to that with further tweaks to spells...

Just listened to the first one today, and I did find it more engaging than my first watch of the full episode. But you can tell there are cuts and sometimes they can be a bit jarring. I think a hour podcast is ideal for actual plays, but they're usually designed that way from the get-go...

You might want to look at Dragonbane for inspiration. The box set includes 11 short adventures, that can be played in any order (except for one, which is to be played last.) It has a pretty classic setup: There's a nice rumor table to seed the different adventure sites. I started with the...

True, but does it matter if they're actually live or just debuting a recorded episode live? If you enjoy watching it with the Twitch chat and finding out what happens every week like a TV show, I feel like it shouldn't make much difference. But perhaps I'm the outlier. I always fall behind...

Have to concur. They're obviously obsessed, but also the first to be super toxic about the latest episode or how bad Aabria's DM'ing is, etc. Better than the Twitch chat though.

Not sure how much the liveplay aspect really matters. All the other big shows and podcasts are pre-recorded, but who knows. Maybe that was a significant factor for the fans. The CR subreddit has been pretty critical (heh) of this campaign since the beginning, though I can't say how...

I totally agree. D&D has this sort of assumed and implied milieu of Dwarves, Elves, Humans and Halflings that all look and behave a certain way. The actual Default setting of D&D has changed multiple times over editions (Example: Greyhawk for 3rd) but the implied setting remains largely the...

Really don't like your suggestions, since I think we're well past the point of using a 1d4 for Hit Dice (Seriously, that's just brutal) and downgrading a bunch of classes to smaller hit dice (particularly the d6) doesn't feel good either. Fixing that Caster/Martial divide isn't going to be done...

I haven't played many of them, but you should check out Tarondor's Guide, it was very helpful for me when deciding which ones I wanted to try out.

Baldur's Gate 3 has no day/night cycle, passage of time, etc. It makes sense to limit it in that context, since you have no time pressure to limit their use. (Either from hours available in a day, or from an impending threat. Time mostly stands still in BG3.) Similarly this is why Long Rests...

Well now that I've been playing D&D for over a decade, I can safely say Nostalgia has a big part of it. The clatter of dice on the table, the smell of beer and pretzels, pushing painted (and unpainted) figures around my well-loved vinyl battlemap, worn and stained from a decade of battles. The...

I used to see these types of arguments come up when it came to combat and meta-gaming. Questions like: Should players know Monster AC? Hit-Points? Or the absolutely iconic, Do you know a troll has regeneration? People who argued that players shouldn't know this would often cite "realism" or...

Definitely a "No" for me. I moved to Pathfinder and I'm pretty happy with that, nor am I the biggest fan of the playtest material. That being said as a fan of all things D&D and D&D adjacent, I'll probably acquire them eventually. But in 2024? Not likely. Maybe a year or two after that, when...

I don't think the act of tracking resources is fun, but it can create fun gameplay. Example, Darkest Dungeon. Not a table-top RPG sure, but that entire game is centered around "Resource Management" and is basically an homage to Old-school D&D. Those resources include equipment like Torches &...

I don't hate it. Some things seem better, some things seem worse.In general, its kind of hard to be excited for "more of the same." I'm somewhere between 'Low' and 'Meh.' Voted low because the Druid playtest is a mess.

I need to wait for more information. The OG three Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik and Scott Kurtz made AI for me and it seems like Scott and Mike aren't really invested in it anymore. The crossovers with the C-Team mand Dice, Camera Action just don't interest me. Of course I liked Rothfuss too but...

Can't go wrong with Dragonslayer