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Team Lake (Aywin) Aywin threw a stone through the archway into the Strange Object on the banks of the underground lake. The stone clattered on the worked slabs of its floor, and did nothing, though Aywin was certain that he'd seen a pattern emerge in the series of the runes that were carved on...

Team Caves (Torhak) Torhak had hugged the walls, staying in the shadows. The big chambers that held the kobold village were dimly lit by a glowing moss, that hung in patches from the ceiling, which was some twenty to thirty feet overhead (though some patches of moss hung low enough that you...

Oops! His Icon simply didn't paste when I c&p'd them from my Ambush map, and somehow I didn't notice! He's with Urgan and Merrick, of course.

Sounds a bit silly, but I'm not sure that its wrong.

Team Infiltrate (Copper) The cultist was busy hitching the wagon up to the chain contraption that would keep it steady while going down the stairs, but he stopped to give Copper a startled look. He stammered, "Uh... no one here talks about that sort of stuff. All you need to know is this - know...

Team Caves Kobolds scattered, screaming in high pitched squeaks as Merrick called out in a voice that boomed like a dragon's. The kobold guards bashed the hilts of their swords on their shields, in some kind of salute, and the original, brave kobold who had been guiding them waved its arms in...

It could be a Multiversal "Everything"-book, with chapters for different worlds with different themes - it's true that the UAs have been themed, but they could still be that way for a book (or books).

Now!? C'mon - you know that I did nothing that will change anything.

They simply weren't as good, and were MUCH lighter on content. LMoP took 40-50 hours to play. Dragons of Stormwreck is probably a couple of sessions. Essentials is longer, but not even close to LMoP. And neither are quite as "good". I'm not disparaging them, either! They're both pretty decent -...

Yeah, it looks unlikely at this point. We'd have to be ordering it in the next month or so, and they usually give us the deets before they make us order it. That they haven't even spoken of it, makes it seem like a certainty that it's been pushed back. It seems likely that it's the Magic...

It does, but... as the subsequent starters have shown, WotC has struggled to repeat that successfully. This is something new. if those learning tools work, I think it will be worth it.

As usual, Snarf, you are fully correct here. On every single point.

I've learned that there are plenty of people who have no ability to visualize "cinematic" scenes in their heads. I likely once scoffed at them (not to their faces, that would be rude, but internally) for that inability, because I'm so good at it, myself. Now I understand that it's not their...

It was also fully expected that you already owned a plethora of miniatures, because the game was designed for extant wargamers to play, not for non-wargamers to pick up. That came later, and the game had to change to support it.

Team Lake The kayaks were beached on the muddy bank and their occupants disembarked. Loklafd tipped the kayaks up on each other, making a little wall that would cover them against threats from the water, while Shade-9 scanned the water's surface. Aywin made his way up the muddy bank, with...

Team Caves The kobolds ushered Urgan and Merrick forward, until they came to a large cavern where the largest of the tent-huts was found. This one was large, circular, and had a fence made of sharpened animal bones surrounding it, like a miniature parapet. Two guards stood at the parapet's...

Terrin overhead the cultist refer to her as "Mistress Siobhan", though she seemed to object to the honorific. Still, she was obviously his superior. She held herself as a competent warrior, and the side of her head was shaved and tattooed, hiding a vicious scar. She was definitely guarding the...

I also regularly teach beginners to play, and I have done so for thirty years. I think I've taught around a thousand people? Across multiple editions. I think this boxed set looks great. I'll have to see how it works in practice, but it has a lot of the right ideas. In no way am I asking you to...