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Yeah, the more time goes on, the more convinced I am that this Vecna adventure is going to feature some sort of partial-reset of their multiverse - something to give them cover to get rid of anything they now consider controversial or problematic, while simultaneously allowing them to retain...

Oddly, it's probably most interesting if that is never actually revealed. It looks very much like the New Republic is just unavoidably doomed from its inception - in order to run a Galaxy-spanning government they need to absorb much of the Imperial bureaucracy, which itself was absorbed from...

Plus, it's Star Wars. You must never, ever leave your child with anyone else, because they will get abducted. :)

Like a couple of others have said, I'd rather not have a single market leader or game - I'd much rather see several large companies supporting multiple game systems at the top of the heap. I don't particularly mind WotC's dominance of things, but I do wish D&D wasn't quite so overwhelming. And...

Yeah, we had one way back in 2nd Ed days. Like most of our characters back then, he didn't last long - our campaigns tended to cycle fast.

Somewhere in my parents loft are a handful of BECMI adventures (R7 Rahasia, X2 Castle Amber, and maybe a couple of others), and possibly the Expert and Companion rules. In theory, there are also a load of Shadowrun 1st and 2nd Ed books, and a load of WEG Star Wars books, all of which...

That's a perfectly valid interpretation. It's also possible that it's all true, that Yoda and Qui Gon both saw the future, took the guidance differently, and thus came to different conclusions. Which is why I limited my objection specifically to this: Hell, it's even possible that the prophecy...

There was the kid at the end of "The Last Jedi"?

As someone who was a big fan of Spelljammer back in the day but never quite got into Planescape: this sucks! Not because this set looks bad. The opposite. :)

Given that Jacen heard the lightsabers, I'm inclined to think she was in the World Between Worlds. However, I'm not absolutely wedded to that view. (That said, I doubt we'll ever get definitive confirmation anyway.)

Not so. Anakin was both the Chosen One who brought balance to the Force by eliminating the Sith, and his training was extremely dangerous. Two people can look at the same guidance, choose to emphasize different aspects, and therefore come to different conclusions.

Agreed. When I said "buy into the premises", that wasn't quite what I had in mind, though - I was thinking more of not bringing a CE assassin to a White Hat Heroes game (or a LG paladin to an evil campaign), or when playing Star Trek not trying to turn the transporters into the ultimate weapon...

I pretty much only have two: I expect players to actually want to be there. I've encountered both the reluctant partner dragged along because they wanted to spend time with a significant other who wanted to play, and the kid dragged along by a parent. Neither has ended well. And I expect...

I'm inclined to think there's a not-inconsiderable faction within the highest echelons of the Republic who are allied with our BBEGs. They're probably responsible for Hera being ordered to stay away and for sending those cruisers to go get her back. In both cases, the reason is the same: to help...

It will actually be really interesting to see what happens. In the past, every time there has been a revision, TSR or WotC found that their biggest competitor was the previous version(s) of the game. But we're now at a point where, for the vast majority of the player base, this is actually...

Fantastic episode. I thoroughly enjoyed it, start to finish.

I think the market will essentially split three ways: the vast majority will shift to 2024 5e (either whole-cloth or with some sort of hybrid with 2014); there will be a significant minority of 2014-only holdouts; and there will be "the rest". And while within that grouping there will be a few...

As others have mentioned, the sandbox section of "Storm King's Thunder" is good. It's a shame about the rest of the adventure - indeed, it makes for a far better setting guide than it does a published adventure!

For the most part, IMC the "knowledge" skills are mostly passive - when they become relevant I'll either call for the appropriate check or, most likely, just give the PCs the relevant information (I like it when characters know stuff about their world). Not that that helps them much - knowing...

This. Back in Session 0 we'd discuss things that are likely to be an issue. If any player isn't happy with that, we play something else. Which is absolutely fine with me. But a player at my table doesn't get to individually opt out of something like that - it's either on the table for all the...