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I really dig this, and my Storm King's Thunder campaign is just getting to the point where it's going to be really useful (I started with Legacy of the Crystal Shard so my players have been kicking around Icewind Dale for awhile now). I'm going to have to dig into the terrain around the North...

The Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG uses 0-level characters in a novel way through adventures called "funnels." Essentially, each player rolls 2 to 4 random 0-level characters, which can include halfling cheesemakers, dwarven brewers, human chicken farmers, and a whole lot of other fun. They each get...

I'm not super interested in the Genesys system, but I've been looking forward to a Terrinoth setting book since Runebound! Definitely looking at getting this one and seeing what I can do to hack a 5E campaign out of it.

The secrets of the Plane of Fire ... revealed at last! The mythical Codex of the Infinite Planes is a massive book containing information on the very planes of existence. Too many for one document to tackle, so it's been divided up into volumes covering individual planes. Crack open the codex...

I like the abstraction in these rules and the fact that you can use these with other rule systems - anything that abstracts out the "challenge" of a monster. That's pretty cool. I wish the combat results were a bit more varied - critical hit, critical fumble, scale with larger BR units, but...

I've been a Kickstarter enthusiast for RPG products for the past 5 years, and I fell in love with the idea as a means to get cool products into my hands. I've backed 150 projects, and I've only been burned by a handful of them (and like others, I now avoid video game Kickstarters of any shape or...

At least there's *one* dragonborn-type character. I believe that's the first one that's been produced in the Icons of the Realms sets since 5E launched. Also, I think it's the first tiefling character too. Here's hoping the next sets have a few more of these non-standard PCs, because even though...

Mutant Crawl Classics RPG

I just watched the second D&D movie, Wrath of the Dragon God, and I was struck by how much fun it was. It wasn't great, and suffered from a lot of clunky storytelling and really poor pacing, but I think the essence was there, even if it was WAAAAY heavyhanded ("you five champions are being sent...

I'm super excited for POD titles from Wizards' back catalog, and I've been very happy with the results so far. I love the Known World gazetteers but finding them in print has been ... prohibitively expensive, to say the least, so when I saw GAZ14 The Atruaghin Clans available I leaped at the...

I love boxed text, as long as it is flavorful without being too verbose. As an adventure designer, I try to keep the boxed text to an interesting view of the scene and generally then only for static locations. Dynamic scenes with lots of moving pieces, or anything with dialogue really, should be...

Since GenCon 2014 I've run games at conventions for Adventurers League and I've had an absolute blast doing so! It coincided with a realization on my part that if I wanted to play games at conventions, I needed to be the one running them - fighting registration systems and timeouts was too...

Many of the game mechanics of 5E are based around action economy - you can only do so much on your "turn" in a combat round, but here are some nifty tricks you can alternate between. Changing that would be difficult, and while I agree that initiative might be one of the more "this is a game!"...

Honestly, the case incentive for this set intrigues me more than the other ones. I realize I'm probably an anomaly in regards to my miniature collection, but I'm more excited for the set dressing pieces than the bevy of common NPCs that are going to clutter up my character box (how many of those...

Make NPCs interesting outside of combat. As a lifelong GM, I pity players - they only get to play one character at a time. I get to play ALL the characters! Or rather, I get to play characters that I want when I want without having to focus on them for too long. Give your NPCs something easy for...

Like: Acknowledgement and support of the fact that the game needs a Dungeon Master. Players have their class abilities, and many of them are worded loosely to create interesting and unexpected situations that a DM is required to arbitrate. Absolutely fantastic, as a DM I haven't felt this much...

Pick up sword and spell and toss the dice, OLD SCHOOL STYLE! Take heed and harken back to the days of high adventure, when a Game Master could sit down with an engaging prefab module, guiding parties through scenarios of danger, darkness, and the promise of hidden treasure. The stories...

Has anyone heard anything regarding the Troy Denning Orcus novel? Chris Perkins mentions it specifically in the forward to Out of the Abyss. I bet that would have been a fun read, I always wondered what the Demon Prince of the Undead was doing down there in the Underdark. I think his storyline...

Very surreal, if true. I've been reading the Forgotten Realms novels since Douglas Niles' Moonshae Trilogy. The books vary wildly in style and quality, but I've found them all to be enjoyable on some level. I recall Chris Perkins talking at Gamehole Con 2014 about their novel plans and how they...