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Yes, I know what Beyond20 is, and that was my experience. I installed the Beyond20 Firefox add-on, fired it up on Roll20, and the first attempted test roll sent the Game Chat into Dark Mode, but the read-outs were black-on-black, rendering them useless. I fiddled with the Dark Mode settings, and...

I imagine the AboveVTT devs have discussed it on the Discord, but I'm not on it, so I don't know what they might have said. As of yet, they haven't somehow spiked the code to make AboveVTT unusuable, as it has worked fine in all my tests, at least on Chrome. I imagine they won't do anything...

We are currently in the middle of switching from Roll20 to AboveVTT. Today we played on the new DDB Maps tool just to get used to using the DDB character sheets. Next game will be on AboveVTT and we’re hoping it goes smoothly. When we first started gaming online in 2015 (I live in Japan, the...

Well, as a matter of fact, the names Sepuchrave II mentioned come from the Against the Giants G-series modules. And B1 and B2 were written for the Basic Rules by Holmes, not the Basic D&D line, as it were, which would not exist for another 2 years after B2’s publication. Holmes’s rules were at...

I have to say, I’m liking even this limited offering over Roll20 just for how easy it is to upload perfectly scaled maps. This may bite them in the butt when it comes to creating a distance pointer, but for right now they have my attention.

GroupSNE released the Adventurers Guild Box Set in 2020. It is essentially another Start Kit and contains many of the same kinds of content: PC cards, Magic cards, and Monster Cards. But more of each! There’s an unboxing video here if you want to see what it looks like. For PC cards, it...

Thanks. Glad to know that these threads and the fan translations are getting SW2.5 a little more well-known outside of Japan. One thing I forgot in the above post is the price point. The Start Sets retail for 3,300 yen, including tax. With the current weak yen, that's about $22, but even with...

This was originally going to be part of my Let's Read of Sword World 2.5, but I thought this might be of interest even to people who haven't read that thread all the way through. Because Sword World 2.5 has some incredible starter sets that I think RPG publishers could learn from. SW 2.5 has...

You know, I thought I was more or less done, but I realized that I never got around to Rulebook III or the Starter Sets. So here's Rulebook III: New races: Rulebook III introduces two new races: Tienses (tee-ens) and Leprechauns. Tienses are a race created by the old Mage Kings that combine...

I make frequent use of the Expert D&D wilderness encounter tables. Also, I essentially use the Basic dungeon exploration rules as is: 10 minute turns, 1d6 for Wandering Monsters, a Caller to facilitate group actions.

Unlikely. Reported budgets are generally the final production cost, not the initial budgeted amount.

The hard part about prognosticating about D&D:HAT is the unusual circumstances of its $151M budget. We know eOne put up half of that. We don't know what the agreed upon ratio was for division of revenue. We don't know if or how marketing was split up. Both Paramount and eOne benefit from...

Well, it’s a list of skills possible in a perfectly spherical D&D player, not necessary conditions to be a good player. Most folks only achieve high levels in a few of these skills. IMXP, though, I’ve benefited as a DM from having players well-versed in the rules. Rules lawyers tend to be rules...

A super God-tier D&D gamer would be able build a wide variety of characters adaptable to any party and most situations encountered in the game have an encyclopedic knowledge of the rules, to aid the DM and other players in resolving procedures understand the tropes and style of a DM’s game and...

Whoa. That’s a crapload of PHBs that suddenly got moved.

Sure. By “his illusion,” I meant “the illusion of him.”

You know, one thing I was pleasantly surprised with was Edgin and his lute/singing. Admittedly, I was somewhat primed for this from the first trailer, but I expected it to be played for laughs. Like they do the Jack Benny thing where he has the lute, but never plays it in earnest, or if he tries...

Well, I was there, and don’t recall the issue being that lovers of 1e, with its brazen strumpets and gender-based ability caps, were afraid that 2e and the ascendancy of FR would lead to their game becoming more sexist. Quite the opposite, in fact.

Noice!! (I’m just noicing your noice!)

While I think that in general, a summit like this shouldn’t have to involve tears, hugs, and “speaking truth to power” if everyone is conducting themselves professionally, I think it’s a mistake to write this off as people making D&D too much a part of their identity. This wasn’t a fan caravan...