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I don’t know what it’s called nowadays. I do a search on YouTube for “Acquisitions, Inc.” and click on the one that has “all the seasons”, or something like that. There are 70 something videos in the playlist. Season one episode one starts out with Scott Kurtz (the creator of the PvP comic)...

I don’t know about 5th edition rules, but the 4e PHB2 had druids, and one of their powers allows them to change to “beast form”, which is a natural or fey beast of the Druid’s choice. The owl bear is a fey beast. The main difficulty is that the Druid remains the same size in beast form as in...

I wonder if Omin Drann will be in the movie. He is, canonically, one of the Masked Lords of Waterdeep. If Jerry Holkins is in the movie as Omin Drann…

Did you know that the print copies of the 4e rule books don’t have the price for oil? The core PHB says that a lantern produces light for eight hours for each pint of oil, but oil isn’t included in the equipment list. The pdf of the core PHB has it, now, but the printed book didn’t. The only...

It reminds me of the scene in Bellairs’s The Face in the Frost when Prospero gets to a town, checks in at an inn, and finds everything boringly weird and weirdly boring. Then, he gets a shock. “Why won’t he go to sleep?” she mumbles…

Just saw an interesting article in Dragon Magazine #418 (published December 2012), discussing inns. There are several charts for generating names, the names of owners (based on racial heritage), the types of food offered based on location (in the desert you can get "meerkat dumplings with...

From the Parcast Podcast, “Unexplained Mysteries”, this is part one. It details the incident of a wolf-like beast that attacked people in France in the 1760s.

“Okay, friends. We’re gonna start a new game, but I’m gonna start you all out at level 9. Each of you pick out three magic items, as well.” during the first dungeon “Well, it looks like the wight knocked you all down to level one, and got away with all your cool magic items, but it left you...

In the RC, the 7th level clerical spell “Restore” will, well, restore one level that has been lost to a wight, etc. The cleric casting the spell loses a level of experience, but gains it back after resting for a while (two to twenty days). The spell restores only one level, but presumably...

Throwing an idea for level recovery if a PC has been level drained. Add one to every level that has been drained, and treat it as a multiplier for XP gained until the PC is back at the pre-drain level. For example: a 5th level fighter is drained three levels during a fight with a wight. The...

I am watching a YouTube video of someone playing it, and it has appeal. It moves quickly, at least the way the guy in the video plays. Do the players get to carry over the magic items they find from one adventure to the next?

Up to level 4, right?

What are your favorites?

Is there leveling-up in Heroquest?

One of the best videos on the Internets. I think this video was the reason Hasbro decided to do the reissue. captcorajus has done a video comparing the new and the old versions. The rules are the same; it is the artwork and miniatures that are slightly different.

They aren’t. If you know some other board game, please relate why it should be considered. What I am really after is something simple, but with elements (miniatures, dungeon tiles) that can be used with straight up D&D rules. That way, when I don’t have time to prep an adventure, I can still...

The other consideration is availability. I am unsure where to procure a copy of Heroquest in a reasonable amount of time, while I know of a FLGS nearby that says they have a copy of Ravenloft. Has WoTC produced Ravenloft-style board games beyond the initial three?

Which would be better if one intended to discard the rules and just use the tiles/board and miniatures to run straight D&D? I am thinking that getting Ravenloft and Ashardalon together, which would be comparable in price to getting Heroquest, because then I would have ten hero miniatures as...

If one were considering purchasing a rpg-ish board game, which would be the preferred choice: the new Heroquest or Castle Ravenloft (or similar, like Wrath of Ashardalon)?

The 4e Essentials dragons could act twice in the first round. They rolled initiative, then added 10, so they probably acted first, no matter what. The personality descriptions in the Monster Vault were also nice. White dragons were tough, but kind of dumb. Blue dragons were the most vain, but...