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Yup, gold standard IMO.

4e Neverwinter Campaign Setting. A really great focused and actionable book with inherent player goals, really cool ideas, and a bunch of FR’s best villains in one area.

We've got a couple pieces of art from a water color artist who pumps out incredible sketches into filled art (smaller scale) in an absurdly short time. Professional artists really are on a whole 'nother level. _______________ D&D art has been trending towards mostly "high heroic fantasy"...

I ran my first one last Sunday and we kinda eased into it but got the hang going pretty quickly. I did have to double/triple read some of the stuff in the full chapter and still missed a little! A couple things I did: Reminded the players they can just ask what somebody wants and if it's not...

Having HP, armor, and Stress to levy as a consequence on rolls & combat actions has been so satisfying on the GM side especially designing environments and adversaries. I’m sure it’s even more so when putting an entire domain / class together.

The only reason I have any attachment to FR is because of my childhood nostalgia for BG 1 & 2, and the 4e Neverwinter Campaign Setting is one of the most actionable "run a campaign" books I've seen. Without that and WOTC pushing it in our faces thanks to decades of similar nostalgia, I wouldn't...

Poking around in my mind at the idea of hacking Daggerheart into a WH40k thing (no I'm not playing Rogue Trader right this moment why do you ask). This would be a much bigger job then the Frames+ things I've been doing so far, which have just a bit of mechanics layered over the base game but...

The city gazetted in there is excellent. We set the campaign aside (it’s “get and complete a faction hook and then have 7 days to do???” Was silly) to do a player-led adventure off themes in there and it worked really well. Wildmount is a really good setting book within 5.2014’s pub period, as...

Yeah, like if the only criteria is "I don't want to have to deal with combat as my character" vs "no combat in the system" then like, a Blades in the Dark Spider or such would work. For the latter, The One Ring as hobbits? The system includes combat rules and assumptions, but you could easily...

Any forged in the dark game. Combat isn’t its own “thing,” but you can escalate to violence (or have violence as a consequence of your actions) that often resolves in a fictional framing and single dice roll. Wanderhome is a game that explicitly contains no violence, apart from one of the most...

I also wish that the "beast form druid" wasn't baked in as much tbh, it actually makes that class a lot harder to reflavor. A bit of a limitation of how closely tied the game is to current D&D tropes I guess. Does make you wonder if it would cause any balance issues to swap Splendor for Sage on...

Right, so what I think DH has done that's pretty clever here is figure out a way to distill down what PBTA's would call "custom moves" into something straightforward to construct for GMs. Like this is just a collection of pretty simply mechanics you could cut down even further, but putting them...

Think of Environments as three things: prep to give you permission and reminders to do thematic stuff that gives life to a scenario, an extra spotlight target to juice fights up (especially solos) and spend fear, and a container for focused rules. If you haven’t yet, go look at the Void playtest...

Look at the Environments in the Void, they’ve got good stuff. The heist in particular for this. Also if you want to escalate just spend a fear and say something cool. spend a fear “You turn around and bump into somebody, and it’s your ex! What flashes through your head in that instant before...

Players highlighted the Negotiation rules tonight, I love that they give a victory; they got really creative with free-form skills; and went ahead and cut their wins at 4 Interest. Also the Radenwights are a lot of fun to run, so mobile compared to the Goblins we were facing in the Tomb. Plus...

Trophy: Dark plays off horror game rules where if you try and face off against monsters it’s a losing proposition.

Ah, same way they reused most of the Crystal Shard stuff in Rime of the Frostmaiden. Edit: I'm sure there will be some shout outs to BG3 events in the book, for those that matters to.

The Murder in Baldur’s Gate module has a lot of excellent city stuff for the 5e historical transition.

This looks a lot like the daggerheart collector's edition style, love that sort of big bold color contrast and stylized tapestry-like / in-world mosaic type shapes. I have enough weird nostalgic fondness for the realms of my childhood I'll probably grab em to use with some other system, haha.

As an aside, I think you might say that urban fantasy a la Peter Grant etc romanticizes the idea of a time when (western?) humanity believed more widely in mystical things. They’re literally about taking the rational everyday mundane modern life and injecting magic back into it.