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Excellent point on the voice / video channels -- that is completely non-trivial to do yourself on the web as you need pretty beefy machines / fat pipes on the server side. Definitely want to use a service if you are more than a few people chatting. Setting up a text chat on the other hand for...

Some thoughts on (what we know about) the new starter set: Cards: Putting together characters from cards is brilliant. It seems like a way to really speed things up as it avoids copying things onto a character sheet and avoids pages of character options in a rulebook. The cards that make up...

If you have the desire and skills to run web servers and find nurturing and policing a community fun rather than a burden, then indeed, hosting your own platform can be smart. Lots of people don't have the desire or ability though,and are better off paying to support a service that will...

Folks don't even think about Discord as Social Media, as it has settled into a niche much much more like old fashioned Forums, but as a free service, and with a global login/account rather than individual self hosted software with individual accounts. I definitely expect Discord investors to...

Dear folks locked in the titanic, yet petty death struggle about the quantity and quality of errata: As this thread falls, trailing a ragged grey smoke into the trashheap of history, please reconsider how you are investing the few precious hours we all get to spend on this earth. Go sketch a...

Dear Darryl, glad to hear that you seem to be slowly winning the battle with your recent health challenges. Thank you for all the great deals, and I hope some of the folks saving money here are passing some bits of it back your way as support. :cool:

Around the time Tasha's came out, WotC seems have hired a full time artist whose job is to post-process all received art pieces to add "magicness". If they see someone who is supposed to read as a spellcaster they roll 1d4 and then add 1) colored fire 2) a glow-y aura, 3) orbiting runes or 4)...

Looks like they are doing a mini version of the little monster flavor tables like in the Levelup books and in the Monster Overhaul Bestiary.

I think the art teased here is mostly fantastic. Despite the generally high level, I HAVE had two gripes with the art in 2024 that in my opinion will make it look dated. Only the first is really a problem here: 1) Washes and layers over / obscuring the main image... Seriously it's gonna look...

Sorry to disagree but this is an AWESOME kobold! Unlike the MM24 ones above it exudes both aggresiveness and small size, which are the two essential kobold traits.

Indeed. Also I submit "Drylad" as the term for a male Dryad.

Get Well Soon Darryl! Sorry that this came your way this year. Happy to donate for transportation costs, and glad you are getting on insurance that will help a bit with direct costs down the road. Nowhere has perfect health care of course, but it's a sad pattern to see folks dealing with...

I voted: Dolmenwood (What a labor of love they are completing! I am so excited!) Discworld ( The lightweight system they are adapting for this sounds like it will be lot of fun ) Stonetop ( recently heard about it, looks amazing ) These three other heavyweights in the Fantasy space are going...

It's kind of hitting a grimdark behemoth vibe instead of being a ridiculous pulp magazine rock and role beast. Otherwise it looks pretty solid, if a bit long. One ( extremely ) minor point is that when calculating average damage in 5E, we traditionally take the die size halved plus .5 to get...

Hey, I agree Eberron is the gold standard! Wildemount and Theros I have't read deeply enough to have an opinion. Still I would put the Ravenloft book up there almost with Eberron in terms of sheer amount of play it opens up and feeds. I guess we are pretty off topic for a Chris Perkins thread...

In my second intervention against grumpiness in this thread, I have to say I don't know what Ravenloft fans are complaining about. Strahd is Awesome and Van Richten's Guide is one of the best D&D books I have ever read, full of evocative ideas and wise advice on horror storytelling. A lack of...

Hey @Morrus , can you get this headline corrected please? It's taking down your otherwise brilliant recent journalistic record.

Chris Perkins, if you are reading this, forget the haters, they are the grumpy minority. Thanks for the whimsy, the hard work, and all of the great times! Yes, I'm sure that you are not far away, and are leaving the role in great hands, but still I think it's nice for folks to have a round of...

Hurm..... D&D Beyond is mentioned exactly 0 times in the linked article. This, and the fact that D&DBeyond and Roll20 are strong competitors makes me extremely skeptical that your Journalism Headline Thingie is right.

Sounds heavily inspired by FATE, with "Traits" instead of "Aspects", a Narrative Currency (FATE points or Luck ) and negative Consequences instead of any kind of hit points. However, this system is even even somewhat lighter than a FATE variant, since there aren't skills, approaches or types of...