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Huhn. "Arcane Shadows" mentions the pentad books and that it is a follow-on to "Road to Urik", but I wasn't aware the others weren't related to the metaplot - other than "Forest Maker" and "Black Flames/Black Spire". Unfortunately, my group didn't have a good experience with "A Little...

Didn't they have their focus on establishing a video game arm (and a movie arm...) a couple years back and shut them down amid a bunch of half-finished products? With the news off programmers being laid of left, right and center lately I don't have a lot of faith in any new attempt they're...

I think with as many games, getting the right group who is positively invested makes a huge difference in attitude. Bad attitudes often come with poor play experiences. One of the things about 5E that really made me happy was that I was able to play with my parents (who were in their 70's), me...

5E (I'm not quite sure about 5.5) had a lot of encouraging to come up with your own description of how a certain ability worked or looked. For example, I could easily imagine playing a 5E Barbarian who is a sword rake duelist. His "Rage" wouldn't be a Conan-like battlecry of gusto, but instead...

They were there - "I cast Magic Missile" was certainly one of them. So was "I swing my sword" There's only no narrative component if you don't use it in the first place.

Another whose been playing since forever (Holmes Basic was my first) who really enjoys 5E. It feels like it has the right level of mechanics and story of all the different flavors of D&D I've done over the years. I'm not slavenly devoted to it though, it does have its warts - but it's easy...

On the bridge to Circle Isle, I was thinking there would be a need to move large objects/goods from Lambeth over to Cynelsa in some manner, as I had imagined that the Great Road was the main commerce line into the city. Having the bridge to Circle Isle does create a buffer to Lambeth directly...

It would be nice if they could get Brom back to at least do the cover/alt cover for a Dark Sun book and Tom Braxa to do some of the interiors. I'm honestly nervous about what WotC might come out with for a 5E Dark Sun, but I'll keep my fingers crossed. I'd certainly like them to hew as close...

I don't think it would necessarily be a good fit for every character, though I'm not against non-casters getting some out-of-combat abilities that can give spells a run for their money. There is, however the Magic Initiate feat you could use for the above (for those who want it, or give it...

My thoughts on Cynelsa: Mount Cynelsa: Simply called "The Cynelsa", this towering mound hosts the Ars Rex Magnifica (ARM) at its peak. The only access to it is a switchback road approached from the southeast. The switchback serves two purposes: defense against a straight push up the mound...

Actual young people; I recently had a group of college age players who wanted to do Star Wars, but demanded to use 5E instead of considering WEG or SAGA rulesets. I've had other cases as well.

My (crude) interpretation of the major interburough El lines (in blue) and major street layout in Hackwark.

In my experience, in older days people were a lot more willing to try other systems than I've seen of late. Nowadays I see a lot of people push back against playing anything other than D&D, or if they want to do a different genre they'll just use D&D for it with a couple custom tweaks.

I don't think we will, since 4E they've been trying to build brand identity for the visual look of creatures, so variety of appearance runs counter to that.

I feel like we need a Ribald Street somewhere in Hackwark. And some kind of Las Vegas strip - maybe the southeastern arm of the Grand Road?

I could see the roads in Hackwark expanding out in concentric circles from the Operium/Hackwark Hill.

There's a temptation at high level to make everything "world/reality endangering". Be aware of the implications to your game world they would create - especially if the PCs fail. Try to build into multiple states of success or failure to such themes; they're generally much better than binary...

More: (hope this doesn't seem like spam, this is the sort of design I love to do) The Skybound: Originally started as a cross-city courier service employing mounted Griffons, today the Skybound have two divisions - the long-vaunted courier service and a branch that acts as a form of aerial...