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I like having investigation be useful against traps specifically because rogues tend to have decent intelligence and often dump wisdom, so it improves their scouting ability. Plus, it then pairs well with sleight of hand to disarm the trap they found. And there are some situations where I would...

In our first game, the characters met and traveled together to the Keep, getting to know each other on the way. Then they interacted with the guards (I've tweaked Bartho to be a secret cultist, and connected to the vandalism at the temple), picked up a few rumours, and then proceeded to the...

Painting it in metallics would make me nervous; I find it much harder to keep texture with metallic paints because of how much they reflect light - your proof of concept is well painted but looks kind of glossy to me, for example. Could maybe approach it like a weathered vehicle?

I haven't seen One Battle yet, but my kid says good things; he saw it with his movie buddy on Friday. Your list is mostly correct except Boogie Nights goes in the number two spot, and Punch Drunk Love goes much lower. It's a personal thing: I can't stand Adam Sandler in general, so even when I...

You'd think your point here would have been obvious, but this part of your post has me rethinking my entire approach to the game economy.

You got me excited for a moment there. Yeah, been over a decade since the last book, so I ain't holding my breath on seven more, though I would love to be proven wrong. I'd have to re-read the first three, at this point.

The Devils is one of my books of the year, for sure.

Of late I've quite enjoyed Joe Abercrombie's various, connected books in the Logen Nine Fingers world. For big single-volume books***, I just re-read Stephen King's It. On the one hand, it's his best work, IMO; the premise of a bunch of kids battling a shapeshifting monster that apes their...

There's three different books of One Shot Wonders available on DDB; they are each really well designed for a mini-session, around two hours. There's enough content to run the adventure, along with maps, but each is basic enough to make them easy to tailor to a specific group and setting, if you...

I wrote a 5 page, 3000 word adaptation to give it a more cohesive plot and tie it to the setting I use; it took a few hours, but as a result, I am very familiar with the new adventure. As written, it is pretty much a complete sandbox; there is very little tying any of it together or really...

I too prefer more of a street level game. Even so, I have never found treasure to be that much of an incentive to most players. Uusually they are trying to help a loved one, deal with a threat, get revenge, etc. In my experience "get more gold" is a minor incentive that can be useful to help...

Yeah, wildshape was not great with the 2014 rules and is now substantially worse. Thanks to other properties, notably World of Warcraft and other RPGs, not to mention (checks notes) the official D&D move, Honour Among Thieves, the expectation of most younger players is that druids will be these...

As to what I do with the stuff: I build really elaborate sets for my home games, and then put everything back into storage, which takes up a large number of carefully labeled bins across several long shelves in the garage. I like to be prepared for almost any set I'd like to build, so I have a...

I've been mostly working on terrain of late, but I think I'm going to get back to miniatures for awhile - my "pile of opportunity" has grown since a few Kickstarters have delivered, though mostly I try to keep it from getting too big. Anyway, I just got around to this Balor from the recent...

Unfortunately, a lot of that stuff is from Gabrigame Workshop, a Russian company that used to sell on EBay at amazing prices, but seems to have become defunct. I bought a ton of their stuff back before the war in Ukraine started - it's 3d printed but excellent quality resin (unlike that bed...

I just grabbed the digital pack - I have group of 6 Grade 11s who want to check out D&D so I’ll try the level 1 adventure with them.

The adpatation of White Plume Mountain that I've been running over the past two sessions concluded with the the party finding and defeating the Archmage Keraptis himself, ssurviving as a half-failed lich, in the bottommost chamber (where the efreeti is in the published version). I had fun...