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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...

Yeah, I'm loving the old school style art. This seems like a really great starter set, which along with the Borderlands set gives us two quality starter sets being released at virtually the same time. That's a bit surprising, but maybe you can't have too much of a good thing.

I love this. I prefer to stay well away from "save the world" plots, as they can really only end one way, and so your stories become predictable at the same time as the stakes become less meaningful. Now I encourage my players to come up with interesting wants, needs, and flaws for their...

Hit points are a fantastic game mechanic, which is why they have been applied to a vast array of games since their invention. As a roleplay mechanic they have strengths and weaknesses. They're less dramatic than a lot of other systems, but make death a lot more predictable, which is essential...

Weapons constantly breaking just...doesn't seem very fun to me. I'm not sure what the sell is, here.

We also know that sometimes he and his team rush to build a set during the break, which is one of the reasons that they often break right before a big combat encounter. On a few occasions he has described frantically pulling something together, and in other interviews he has shown the extensive...