Search results

Actually only LMoP and ToD are eligible for Adventure's League home play. All of the Expeditions modules (all of the rest of the AL modules currently out) are not supposed to be available for home play, they are for public play only. Here is the announcement from the AL Community Manager. If...

And not everyone has the time, energy, ability, and/or desire to create things from whole cloth. Just like some people may want to build a house from scratch, while others may be happy just picking out the colors and furnishing in order to call it their own.

Down in the bottom left corner of the page there is a drop down to choose the style. Reborn is the light background (and I think the current default), Legacy, Eric Noah, and Eric Noah's Half Fiend Love Child are all black or dark gray backgrounds. I personally find the dark background to be...

I had actually completely forgotten about Codename: Morningstar, and if it hadn't been for ENWorld I wouldn't have known it existed at all. As opposed to the 3e and 4e tools that were advertised as "coming soon" in print in the respective PHBs on the day of release. I have always been told...

I've also been in corporate America for a long time (just shy of 17 years at a Fortune 500 company). There are bad decisions made at big companies, especially when you get into decisions by committee or the impact of corporate politics and yes-men. There are also good decision made when the...

The thing about most of these examples of corporate failures is that they are notable because they were against the trend. Apple has become known for smashing successes in the market to the point of becoming a lifestyle brand, Coke and Time Warner didn't get to be as big as they are without...

Digital format doesn't necessarily reduce the product development costs, just the production costs after development. There is also still a distribution cost for digital goods, just lower per unit than physical goods. Digital products also have less consumer exposure (no chance of spotting...

It is sad, but the reality is tabletop RPGs are a very niche market that is also highly fragmented, and while D&D might be the best known brand, it hasn't necessarily been the most popular brand recently. So out of the small percentage of the population that plays TTRPGs, only a fraction of...

They very well can lose money when putting out a professional grade product. Once you factor in the author's, editors, and layout folk's time, plus the cost of commissioning the artwork and maps, the cost of managing the project and doing things like getting an ISBN number, and any cost of...

If you absolutely need psionics for your game, then 5e may not be the right system for you. In every edition of D&D after 1e, Psionics has been an optional module that wasn't published until 1-3 years after the release of the PHB. Even if WotC was planning on the splatbook release pace of the...

Shadowrun 5e just came out in 2013, I first bought it in 1993 when it was 2nd edition (released in 1992). So 3 editions released in 21 years, with no minor revisions that I know of like Skills and Powers, 3.5, or essentials mixed in. On top of that, each edition is actually lasting longer than...

With the current schedule, they will have released the PHB, MM, DMG, HotDQ, RoT, and the Elemental Evil adventure in the first year. By my count that is 6 books (7 if you count the Starter Set) in the first 12 months. At this point we don't know what the next 12 months will hold for their...

Say I planned on getting my kids a Wii U for Christmas but didn't tell them, and then due to unexpected financial situations couldn't afford to do it. One of the kids went snooping on my computer and found a document where I was making notes about what I was planning on getting everyone and saw...

I would love to see a revival of Dungeon and Dragon. I think back to all of the old issues of Dragon I read from the 1e/2e days, a lot of the articles were talking about things like unusual magic items, small optional rules modules (arctic weather, fleshing out art objects and gems, random...

I had a thought this morning about a variant way to roll stats to give more variety than point buy or standard array, without the potential impact of hot or cold dice. Take 24 cards and number them so that you have 4 each of the numbers 1 through 6 (or if you have an Uno deck, just grab the...

When I was running 3.x, it was pretty common once the players got to higher levels for them to find weapons that they couldn't use because that is what the enemies used. For example, noble salamanders use large +3 longspears. Nobody in the party used longspears, and nobody was large, but after...

This is a complete tangent, but in Hero System 6e (the latest version), they converted the derived characteristics to regular purchased characteristics, so now your Con has no bearing on your Stun and your Dex has no bearing on your OCV or DCV. So as a result characters have a truckload of...

For me, I'd like to see each PC be better than the rest at something, whether it is a unique ability, some aspect of combat, some out of combat skill, or even some RP based contacts or relationships. If there is something that they are the best in the party at, then there is something they can...

Not every tradition. The tradition of putting a star on top of a Christmas tree was never grounded in practicality, neither is watching the ball drop and singing Auld Lang Syne on New Years Eve. The traditions can just as easily be grounded in cultural or spiritual significance instead of...

I don't see a morale check as having anything to do with making a well reasoned retreat or surrender, it represents whether an enemy panics and either gives up or routs independent of whether that would be the desired course of action, and in that case Wisdom (being the save that is used to...