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Of course he is.

The thing that sucks most about being an older gamer is looking back at all the things I should have done when I was younger.

Probably the two thoroughly-beaten-up booklets from the old Red Box. (The box itself is long gone.) That's where it all started.

About as serious as one of the early MCU films.

I'm not sure if this is new, or if it's been the case for the past week, but Amazon UK appear to have most of the not-quite-newest 5e hardbacks at fairly hefty discounts for Black Friday. It looks like the books from this year and last year are excluded (so no PHB 2024 - yet), but things like...

I tend towards preferring a weak monarch who is 'advised' by various nobles - there are therefore a number of factions that battle to pull the strings, with the goal to become the power behind the throne. PCs can then throw their lot in with one of the existing factions, form a faction of their...

I'm going for Elementals, largely because I'm happy with the coverage of Aberrations and Fiends from 3e days (and of course Dragons and Giants have been covered for 5e). So something that hasn't been covered, or hasn't been covered for a long time. But between the Temple of Elemental Evil, and...

That's a shame. D&DHAT was probably never getting a sequel, but it was a fun enough film. And the Transformers films had been slowly improving (from a very low base).

Elon vs WotC is basically Alien versus Predator - you can pick a side, but neither of them is exactly benign. And, frankly, by this point in the series they've both had better showings in the past.

For me, it depends what it's sold as. If they're selling an adventure for me to add to my campaign, what I'm mostly looking for is something I can slot in easily - a fairly tight location and relatively little outside impact. If, however, they're selling a "campaign in a box", like most of the...

Only four: "The Shattered Circle" (2nd Ed), "The Sunless Citadel" (3e), "Shackled City" (3e/3.5e), and "Lost Mine of Phandelver". But that's only because of the "run to completion" rule in the OP - I've read way more adventures than I've run, and more often than not the ones that I have run...

Pretty much everyone who has ever worked on D&D could have made more money doing other things. If money is what inspires them, they're in the wrong industry.

IMO, the value of a list like that is less for the "big hitters", and more about the smaller titles that someone might not be aware of: while GRRM, JRRT, and Pratchett would obviously have their place on the list, something like "The Black Company" is less likely to be known, and worth the shout...

My big problem with fixing 3.5e was that there was always one more thing wanting a fix - I'd start with a small list of fixes, then find a few more, then another... just one more... I find exactly the same issue with 5e. Which means it's probably a me thing - I just won't be happy unless I've...

It's not really a good idea in general for producers to publish "reviews" of their direct competitors products. Even if "competitor" isn't really a realistic description given the relative sizes. To an extent, Dragon mag got away with it back in the day by using an external reviewer (and not...

Not really related to the new DMG, but if you're going to be drawing your own maps I'm inclined to give a shout out to two books by Jared Blando on the topic: "How to Draw Fantasy Art and RPG Maps: Step by Step Cartography for Gamers and Fans" (country maps) and "Fantasy Mapmaker: How to Draw...

Mixed. For adventure material, the rate has been good - too many to actually use, but only a subset is of interest anyway. (And that's a good thing - the adventures that interest me won't be exactly the same ones that interest you.) Unfortunately, I've found the rate of hits to misses rather...

In that regard, Dragon and Dungeon were always a little odd as magazines - most magazines seem to be a collection of news and articles to consume for a few days, and are then destined for the bin. The notion of keeping them for ongoing use seems unusual.

I would very much like to see them both, especially now. Twice in the past I've gone through spells when I haven't been gaming for one reason or another, and in both previous occasions the monthly deliveries of one or both of the magazines has served as a really strong tie back to the hobby -...

It was also the time of the Edition Wars as well, of course - for every person who loved them, there were also a few who were extremely vocal about being pissed off at the print versions ending, and missed no opportunity to dump on the online versions as a result. Putting all that work in on a...