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Precisely why a Dracorage campaign—which lets you fight the dragon types that in Tyranny you're allying with, as well as dragon types entirely absent from Tyranny (gem dragons)—makes a lot of sense. I get you that WotC has so far wanted each new adventure hardcover to have a theme that's...

It just occurred to me that 5.5e will surely at some point get its own dragon-focused epic hardcover adventure, to mirror the first one for 5e. They're going to want to showcase these new dragon designs, and that seems like a great way to do it. I know a lot of folks want WotC to set the...

The bronze is a mixed bag. I like the features but hate the coloration. Bronze is mostly copper, but it doesn’t all look like it—hues vary depending on the composition of the alloy. Some oxidize just like copper, while others that start out more yellowy oxidize toward the shade used as...

Thanks for the tips. Feats: yes; multiclassing: yes for only one PC, who's playing a druid with a one-level monk dip (admittedly does help that PC's survivability a bit, but I don't think it has had a huge impact); magic items: only what the adventure itself has provided. So the only "variant"...

Some of them. A couple of my players have become pretty deeply unhappy with the unlosability of 5e in recent years.

I’ve been running the Yawning Portal version of Against the Giants for a four-PC party of characters at the level suggested by the module, and I have tried as hard as I possibly can to kill them without changing the module or pulling shenanigans, which was the deal from the get-go (the players...

That's not a dragon, that's a dude in a mid-1970s Marvel supervillain outfit.

No one has mentioned the biggest (by quantity) RPG-based novel line—namely, Forgotten Realms. Probably because of its reputation for iffy quality. But I think it depends on whether “the best” in this case means the mean average quality of all books published in the line, or just the quality of...

It's Vajra Safahr of Waterdeep.

I can see 5.5-era WotC making a Fantasy Asia book. There would be a number of prereqs, such as having the project led by designers with Asian heritage. But it could happen. I can even see them calling it Kara-Tur, maybe, and bolting it onto Faerun just like the old Kara-Tur. What I can’t see...

TLDR: I found it lacking, and I imagine anyone expecting the kind of adult-oriented storytelling of D&D novels of yore will, too. My twelve-year-old loved it. Most of the classic FR novels were written for adults or older teens. (I don’t know Dragonlance well.) A lot of us read them at younger...

Vecna. It has been a very long time since WotC published an adventure of any length, original or "updated"/converted, that I thought was worth running. But I do still find their campaign-length adventures amusing to read through as novels-in-adventure-format.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE After a very brief search, Wizards of the Coast, subsidiary of Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS) Gaming, announced today that it has selected David Williams to replace outgoing Cynthia Williams as company president. Reached for comment, David Williams said he plans to embrace modern...

WotC runs a survey that seems to have no purpose other than to answer the question, "Do our customers really hate us? How much?" and then shuts it down almost immediately—presumably after seeing early results coming in. A few weeks later, president's abrupt departure is announced. These two...

"What You Thought a Tire Tread Said"

That "satchel" is worth more than the pile of treasure it's lying on...

That may be concerning inasmuch as he is an excellent game designer, so firing him may indicate WotC doesn't value excellent game designers as much as it should. But he hasn't been working on D&D at all for years now—he was moved to a non-public-facing role on the Magic side of the company...

I’ve read Johnson’s earlier FR novels and figured this one would be more like her movie prequel, but thanks for the confirmation. I haven’t read the Eberron fiction and didn’t know they were generally less R-rated—my kid loves Eberron so we might try those next. I’m an old FR junkie, the kind...

How would you rate its kid-appropriateness? I'm a longtime FR novel reader but there are precious few of the old books that would be appropriate for a 10- or 12-year-old. The new batch seem different, even the ones not explicitly aimed at kids or "YA" readers. Does this one continue the trend...