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I have a pet theory about this trilogy (based really on nothing more than a hunch and some tea-leaf reading), that it’s going to climax with [definite spoiler for several 5e hardcover adventure paths] so that [spoiler for the upcoming Drizzt novel trilogy if my theory is correct, in other words...

You're right. Reading it over, I think that wasn't a fair characterization for me to make. I retract that. Here's a better version of what I mean: saying "I do not use premade adventures, and I am not familiar with building 'conventional' D&D adventures. I fully expected that my adventure would...

My five cents on the Book of Cylinders kerfluffle, for what they're worth: 1. Neither side looks good here, at all. 2. POCGamer admits "I do not use premade adventures, and I am not familiar with building 'conventional' D&D adventures. I fully expected that my adventure would be edited and...

I mostly agree with this—if the published adventure is well organized. Right now I'm running Princes of the Apocalypse and that thing is an underrated adventure path but a total mess, organization-wise. Unless I had a very good memory and/or reread a great deal of the book between every play...

I think your breakdown is likely correct. I'd tweak just one thing. Here's what I am anticipating as the new baseline: 1 adv. anthology 1 full adventure path/campaign story 1 setting 1 splat / monster / IP book 1 box set and an additional "floater" slot that is usually either a 2nd setting or...

Agreed. I'm disappointed they're using Dyson Logos, but I'm hardly a basher; as I said above, DL's maps are "fantastic" in miniature, on the page, in the books. I've never used printed-out versions for live play, but maybe they do work great there too. The problem is they look really, really bad...

Are all the Rime maps reprints of old maps? Edit: Schley did maps of Icewind Dale for Legacy of the Crystal Shard (2013), but the eleven maps in Rime are different from those. His website says they were "created for" Rime. I'm pretty sure they're new.

I don't think anything happened to him, and I would expect to continue to see his work in future products. There's never been a period in which only he illustrated maps for WotC (they've always used other cartographers alongside him, often even within a single book). And his maps are prevalent...

Should be, yes—but according to the book’s page on the FR Fandom site, it has been officially set as 1492 by WotC, and indeed the BG3 video game (whose plot takes up where Descent into Avernus leaves off) begins later in 1492. So the book’s own internal evidence doesn’t jibe with the place it...

I'm with you, and very disappointed this book uses DL's maps. They are fantastic in miniature, in the books, but terrible for online play. I'm currently halfway through a Descent into Avernus campaign on Roll20 and we're wading through muddy chicken scratches in every location. The players all...

That used to be so but they haven't stuck to the practice exactly for a while now. Princes of the Apocalypse is explicitly set in 1491 and that book came out six years ago, but we're definitely not up to 1497 yet. The farthest-ahead material we've seen in 5e is 1494 (Descent into Avernus)...

I’m up against this problem right now, as I prepare to start running a campaign of Princes of the Apocalypse. For those unfamiliar with that adventure, it’s a sandbox multi-dungeon crawl. It’s a great book that still holds up in a lot of ways, but it deserves its poor reputation, which rests on...

Exactly right—but from a nonfinancial standpoint there are a couple of reasons to go ahead and create a new (or revised) edition: 1) you think the game could be improved mechanically in a way that would enhance players' experiences without alienating other players or pissing them off about...

For me the low point is the Hunter’s Blades trilogy, which I think is next up in Goonalan’s reading order (next for the Drizzt series anyway). Those books felt very stale to me. They still have their moments, though.

Of course! It's a fantastic success.

In the comments, Free League has said you just click "Manage My Pledge" and then you have to do math. (Add the extra money to your pledge by manually increasing your pledge to the new total—in SEK.) Seems it might crack $2 mil USD—but doesn't look like it's going to beat Strongholds and...

I liked this one more than you did, though I agree with your criticism of the out-of-nowhere final act with Artemis—which I nonetheless sort of liked on its own terms as a Tarantinoesque real-world-issues revenge fantasy. I remember reading an interview with Salvatore about this in which he...

As long as we're doing musical references about selling out, here's mine—and it does sum up my feelings on the matter: "I don't believe you. You're a liar! (Play ****ing loud!)"

You can wait as long as you want to get it, of course, but (in the USA at least) Candlekeep Mysteries goes on sale two weeks from today. As for the map in Elminster's Candlekeep Companion, it is indeed excellent. There's a different map of Candlekeep coming as a tear-out poster in Candlekeep...

Thanks for clarifying, sorry I misunderstood. Yeah, international shipping from the DM's Guild is very expensive, so the buy-in-bulk-and-mark-up strategy sounds like a potential winner for international shops. Funnily enough, shipping to for example Europe is (according to the site's FAQ at this...