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  1. Weird Dave

    GenCon 2022 misc thread

    Sob. This isn't the first GenCon I've missed in over 20 years, and likely won't be the last, but I'm still bumming here looking at the pics. It's just so ... much. Every year it's so much of everything. Here's hoping to GenCon 2023, and I'm definitely looking forward to Gamehole Con 2022 and...
  2. Weird Dave

    D&D General Monsters of the Ethereal Plane

    Great article and intriguing list of monsters! You can also find more information on the Ethereal Plane in my Codex of the Infinite Planes article, Vol 7 Ethereal Plane! Codex of the Infinite Planes Vol 07 Ethereal Plane - Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild
  3. Weird Dave

    Spelljammer Beadle & Grimms’ Spelljammer Platinum Edition

    Personally, I have a hard time swallowing the cost for the Beadle & Grimm products for adventures. If you've got the capital, or can go in as a group, I think they can enhance play, but they're still a "one and done" kind of thing for me (I typically don't run adventures multiple times)...
  4. Weird Dave

    D&D 5E (2014) Hasbro Acquires D&D Beyond For $146M

    I didn't even think about this! I'd love to get my DMsGuild stuff up on DnDBeyond without having to kludge it into the homebrew section. I mean, it's probably still going to be a kludge but at least the efforts would likely be more rewarding!
  5. Weird Dave

    DMs Guild Tales of the Infinite Planes in PDF and POD!

    Tales of the Infinite Planes Explore the World Serpent Inn and the Multiverse with 8 Adventures! Adventures previously released have been collected into one convenient package! The magic of Dungeons & Dragons and other roleplaying games is the unfolding story that happens at the game table...
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    D&D 5E (2014) What Genre of Fantasy would fit an Adventure in the Abyss?

    For the Abyss, I would personally steer away from urban environments. I like the idea that the unrelenting chaos and malevolence of the plane simply breaks down conventional constructs of even demonic civilization. Things collapse, reshape, reform, and ultimately are hostile to all creatures...
  7. Weird Dave

    News Digest for the Week of January 28

    As I recall, FFG snagged up two of the runners up for the setting competition - Midnight and Dawnforge. Dawnforge had a fun, "early age" fantasy feel where everything was big and epic without it being high level. Pretty enjoyable setting, I hope they revive that one for something in the future!
  8. Weird Dave

    Tell me your experiences with RIFTS

    My experience with Palladium RIFTS echoes a lot of what everyone else said - a lot of cool ideas, but if there was an execution it was kinda messy and a bit overhanded. But the world was still fun in that crazy "anything and everything" kind of way. Magic and technology and demons and cyberware...
  9. Weird Dave

    TSR Best D&D Novels

    I read loads and loads of the FR and DL novels in the late 90s and early 00s, but fell off the novel bandwagon as D&D 3E waned. I enjoyed the various Forgotten Realms anthology series ("Realms of..."), and I recall really liking Mel Odom's Threat from the Sea trilogy (Rising Tide, Under Fallen...
  10. Weird Dave

    D&D 5E (2014) Zooming In On Monsters of the Multiverse [UPDATED!]

    This certainly is going to change the value of counterspell as a player! And I don't think that's a bad thing. And, unless it's part of the monster/NPC's core features, they probably won't have counterspell either.
  11. Weird Dave

    D&D 5E (2014) Dancing Hut of Baba Yaga on DMsGuild in POD/PDF!

    Dancing Hut of Baba Yaga In PDF and Print on Demand on the DMsGuild! Explore the Wonders of the Dancing Hut Rumors have been spreading in small towns and hamlets, regions isolated in the far reaches of the wilderness and cut off from major cities and trade routes. Rumors of strangeness in the...
  12. Weird Dave

    Planescape (+) What would you want for 5e Planescape?

    I can't agree with this more! I started playing in 1995, in the heyday of the TSR setting glut, and I loved the idea of Planescape and the planes. But the sourcebooks all felt like they were fiction reading material, fascinating but not enough there to help me run the campaign as a DM. I get...
  13. Weird Dave

    D&D 5E (2014) Connecting the Planes: What New Interstitial Setting Do You Want?

    Having written extensively about the planes in the Great Wheel cosmology, I actually just wrapped up a year campaign that was my attempt at a Planejammer mashup, where the characters awoke in a Styxian ferryboat minus their memories. The ferryboat was a variant on the skyships used by the Noatun...
  14. Weird Dave

    D&D General Abyssal breaches?

    My adventure Blight of the Demongate contains a table for a Fiendish Blight modeled after the Supernatural Regions presented in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. My Codex of the Infinite Planes article for the Abyss also includes tables for randomly generating threats and hazards across the...
  15. Weird Dave

    D&D General What's your Campaign Success Rate?

    I have been playing and DMing for over 25 years, and my personal record for campaign completion is ... not great. Like, at all. In those 25 years, I have been running games near constantly, usually weekly or bimonthly, though a few periods saw more or less. During that time, I had one straight...
  16. Weird Dave

    D&D 5E (2014) New Unearthed Arcana: Folk of the Feywild!

    The jumping rules are a bit wonky in the core game. You can jump but the amount you can jump can't exceed your speed, so the rabbitfolk hop is meant to get around this and gain a bit of a boost. A random boost it seems, which when rounded down on the tabletop does make it 0', 5', or 10' hop...
  17. Weird Dave

    DMs Guild New Planar Adventure - Blight of the Demongate

    Tales of the Infinite Planes Blight of the Demongate A Planar Incursion Adventure for 1st-level Characters featuring the Infinite Layers of the Abyss On sale for DMs Day only - Get it on 3/4/2021 for $0.99! Welcome to Blight of the Demongate, an adventure in the Tales of the Infinite Planes...
  18. Weird Dave

    DMs Guild Heroes of the Infinite Planes OUT NOW!

    Heroes of the Infinite Planes Character Options from Across the Multiverse! Fully bookmarked 130 page PDF with 45 new subclasses, 30 backgrounds, 34 new spells, and cultural overviews! The planes hold an abundance of wonders, treasure, and excitement, enough to fill any campaign with untold...
  19. Weird Dave

    D&D 5E (2014) Astral Recovery Adventure Ideas

    Might I suggest Codex of the Infinite Planes Vol 6 Astral Plane to help with some ideas? https://www.dmsguild.com/product/235505/Codex-of-the-Infinite-Planes-Vol-06-Astral-Plane Monsters, more information on hazards and travel, along with a host of interesting sites and places to visit...
  20. Weird Dave

    D&D 5E (2014) What are your D&D buying habits?

    Is there an option for "buy every book in both standard and special editions along with the DnDBeyond version"? I didn't see it but ... uhh ... I'd check it if it were there. Shut up, I don't have a problem, you do! ::sobs into 3rd spare copy of Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, you know, the one...
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