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Sort of. The original promise of the Kickstarter was for an animated short film. Then as the money kept on coming in they expanded this to ten 22 minute episodes. After the Kickstarter ended they signed a 2 season exclusive deal with Amazon who is funding the show as they see fit. The...

Having just watched the first 3 episodes this is what stood out to me the most. The characters need more depth and to have more than just 1 default reaction to everything around them. As an adaptation of a D&D game this show is pretty good, but it's in a genre of animation that places it next...

I have no real evidence for it, this is true. It's how I feel after many failed attempts of getting an Eberron group together and the relative ease of getting generic D&D groups.

There's a catch-22 with fantasy stereotypes. If your fantasy species have familiar traits, cultures, aesthetics, etc, then you have created something most find derivative, some find offensive, but it's generally what the public expects and wants from their fantasy role playing. If you...

If you mean the monstrous races, they had very little next to their actual statistics, but there was an entire previous chapter dedicated to monstrous lore. For instance, the goblinoids shared 12 pages of lore text and illustration, kobolds had seven, etc. For the regular player options each...

Keith Baker still publishes original Eberron material on DMs Guild. I have a physical copy of Exploring Eberron, it's easily the best 5e setting book made thus far. If you want to support a creator that's actually passionate for their setting and a highly talented game designer I'd suggest...

From what I can tell, he means that putting the text amount in those terms is a spin to make a paltry quantity look large in aggregate. I'm of a similar mind to @Shardstone here, a small chunk of introductory lore each is insufficient, especially since many of these races were originally...

So there’s nothing new in the book, just revisions of older material? How is this worth my money? If they wanted to revise old stuff they should do so after the next core books or edition update, not this weird in between that will be outdated soon anyways. I just can’t agree that abridged...

Usually accusation of barbarism come from claiming that a culture doesn’t respect the “correct” rule of law. Granted this is an easy viewpoint to take when you’re being subjected to inhumane treatment at the hands of invaders, ie the Danes against the Anglo-Saxons, but it’s ultimately reductive...

Nobody new to the game cares about FR because wotc has done a terrible job of describing and communicating basic aspects of the setting. The Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide is too short, too slipshod and too half-assed with new developments in the setting like the Spellplague, Dragonborn, etc...

OP never called these peoples primitive. They're brought up as examples because their contemporary neighbors leveled that claim against them to make them appear less legitimate. It is a strange thing to try to fit "barbarian" cultures into a fantasy world, because such a thing is just a...

It adds more variety and power to the Hero Point system, but still doesn't address the fundamental issue of GMs just forgetting it exists and not having a standard to assign Hero Points. The guideline is "1 every hour of play time" but since the language of the system implies it should come...

Changing companies is how you get a salary raise in America. This is pretty standard stuff. Still, he did great work on the APG, Secrets of Magic and Guns and Gears, and I'm looking forward to Dark Archive as well, so the loss of one of their premier class designers is a bit of a bummer. I...

I don’t get this book at all. Removing subraces, removing spells from monsters, and all being reprints of past stuff, is this what wotc imagines veterans of their game want? Did they think after 7+ years of playing their game people wanted less detail and less options in the content they...

Am I interested in a Christian lore game? No. Am I interested in playing the Roman republic/empire eras? Hell yeah. I’m a bit torn.

I wouldn't go so far as to say he angers me, but yeah, I just can't get a read on Matt Colville at all. Sometimes he has good ideas, sometimes he says literally the opposite of what I would consider good design or taste (ie endorsing Greyhawk Initiative). If you want a better D&D youtuber for...

The initial reasoning from the OP sounds like it's running from the assumption that game rules and systems are the selling points, when I think in reality it's IP and story potential that catches people's eyes and gets them to investigate further. D&D is no exception in this case, it commands...

I’m glad I hear that level +2/3 isn’t an issue, I always get paranoid about running my group into a statistically unwinnable fight. What are your thoughts regarding very low level PCs? I find balancing legitimate challenge that doesn’t get outright fatal is an issue (same as it ever was I...

Fair enough, I agree with the sentiment. I find much of the discourse goes beyond just finding what’s effective and devolves into the usual arguments about why certain choices are optimal and anything less is stupidity, that sort of stuff (why ever wield anything other than flickmace...

If all that was newly offered was a single, combined PDF at the combined cost of the adventure path, that in and of itself represents a significant increase in convenience and enticement. Clicking on "buy now" once to get a single document with everything you need is much less of a barrier than...