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Annoyed at the limited licenseable supplements released on D&D Beyond only for the upcoming Forgotten Realms book got me to look at older Forgotten Realms products available in wonderful downloadable PDFs on DriveThruRPG. I picked up a bunch and a few stuck out at me as good lore-rich products...

I really like this map pack and I think I'm going to buy it. I think there's room for it in my house...somewhere... I've been going through old FR material available in glorious PDF on DriveThruRPG and one of the things I like about this map pack is that it's an evergreen product. I could play...

I mean, am I right? We're paying them our money! (Technically, I received a review copy..)

You and I talked about this elsewhere but just for our friends here on EN World, I'm totally good with the open approach but it had me scratching my head when you have four encounters along the road and two of the four have no connection to the others. Why are they even grouped together? It felt...

I can make up whole adventures! What am I paying them for? Yeah, I can, but in the case of the cart in the first scenario of the wilderness, one big missing factor is "who was robbed? where are they now?" For my player, this was the main question they had. Have they been kidnapped? Are they...

I really feel like it wouldn't have killed them to include a little more connections between encounters. I've only run the wilderness part so far, and only two branches of it, but the lack of any cohesion between scenes just felt like it was missing something. I had a lot of "so what" moments in...

In fairness, I wrote parts of the TOV GMG. They also have the Monster Vault 2 which just came out and has a bunch of other cool stuff in it beyond just monsters. I wrote some of that too, including an expansion on Doom points.

I hear about Legend of Avantris a lot but I think a lot of those views are shorts, not actual liveplay campaign videos. I could be wrong, of course. Looking at their top-viewed videos, they have a handful above a million views. Critical Role has pages of videos with more than a million views. I...

Who are the bigger ones? How many and how many views are they getting?

I believe them when they say they didn't take compensation and I believe them when they say they chose D&D 2024 because its what they and BleeM were comfortable with. I don't know that they did any big sort of analysis on gaining or losing viewers. People aren't publishing to the DM's Guild...

Sure, and lets not forget that the two lead designers are literally on staff at CR now. BleeM even said he can just text them on a rules question and get an answer.

It really comes down to whether you think CR using D&D 2024 matters more to CR or more to WOTC. Neither of us are going to be able to prove it because there isn't an alternate universe where they use Daggerheart for CR. Is the reason their other non-CR shows got lower views because of the system...

I think its really easy to get lost in the details – maybe even moreso than if you played an entirely new system. There's a big risk of missing little things like how the Help action is different, how the Magic action plays out with rogue's cunning action, how different a lot of the spells are...

This one thing I keep coming around to. This is their system! They wrote it in house. How was it not taylor-made for the sorts of games they run? Before One D&D, a fair number of people talked about how the next version of D&D would be designed for streaming online because of how popular that...

It's easy to get big publicly traded companies mixed up with smaller private companies. Critical Role is huge but there's no reason to think that making money is their primary concern. My wife and I run Sly Flourish and earn enough to make a living (except for health care...) but money isn't our...

One thing I think is interesting in their decision calculus is that D&D may be familiar but D&D 2024 is not. If they made the decision a while ago, they made that decision when D&D 2024 was very new. Sure, it's mostly just 5e, but there's a lot of little changes going on in there. So, for that...

That's not what they said.

I wrote an article about duet-style games that might help: https://slyflourish.com/framework_for_one_on_one_dnd.html I think the method of having two characters, one sidekick that the GM roleplays but the player controls mechanically works really well.

I have a big list of RSS feeds I've been pruning. There's a lot of OSR in here but a lot of other RPG stuff too: https://dndblogs.com/rpg_blogroll.html There's an OPML file linked there for all the feeds. And, of course, I'd add Sly Flourish to the list... https://slyflourish.com/index.xml...