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I put it at a 5. They made some things better but also made some things worse and didn’t change some things that really needed it. I’m more excited about @mearls 5e-lite Odyssey game. EDIT: Another reason for my middling rating is that I've been bouncing pretty hard off the new art direction...

OK. Yeah, see I’m not familiar with any of the original versions of the Infinite Staircase adventures, so I have no idea what’s been changed.

What happened to the dinosaurs? They shrank.

I have been experimenting with a bastion for my Eberron group. It’s a floating tower on the side of Sharn overlooking the river. Each PC has their own floor. It’s still early days, though, and I am waiting to see what the new bastion options in the delayed Eberron book are. Don’t know anything...

Aha. I wondered if something had been left out. I’d heard a lot of praise for this adventure over the years and thought it was a bit weird to call it the lost “city” when it takes place entirely in a single pyramid!

I didn’t discover the existence of such games until I was a bit older in the early 90s. I remember getting a war game that was about re-enacting the battle of Gettysburg. I also got a game that was about B-17s going on bombing runs but it was far too complicated for me, and I never played it.

I mean, I’m OK with it if it’s like Vecna or Tasha or even just unnamed Archmage A, but when even a so-called Apprentice Mage gets a cantrip that PCs can’t get? No thanks. And not only that but regular mages get multiple attacks with their super versatile cantrip as well as extra damage? No PC...

Nope! Guess it just wasn't ever on my family's radar when I was growing up. We played things like Monopoly, Trivial Pursuit, Stratego, Uno, Battleship, Parcheesi, Clue, Life, card games, etc. Stuff like that.

I agree for the most part. Where it breaks down for me is the new spellcaster design. Not giving them spell slots is one thing, but the overly versatile Arcane Blasts that they all get, that are both melee and ranged attacks, which they can fire off multiple times in a round … sure it gives them...

OK. Thanks. I worry this is a potential bottleneck. If the players can’t figure out the clue (“Lay your offerings of food and drink for the gods in the blazing fire before Amun Sa. That which the gods accept will vanish within the flame.”), then they can’t progress through the rest of the...

I am intending to run Pharaoh next, and I have some questions. I’ve never run it before. Am I correct in thinking that the only legit way to get from the ground floor to the next level up is through the flame portal? There is the river connection but the text doesn’t say anything about PCs...

IIRC when I ran it, I set it in the Pirate Isles off the Tethyr coast. (The PCs stopped there on their way back from Chult post-ToA.) For Eberron, I’d probably set it in the Lhazaar Principalities or maybe somewhere in the islands between Khorvaire and Xen’drik. Or maybe even like a decaying...

Yes! That one recycles the original art from Dungeon, though, doesn’t it? Or did they commission new art? I can’t remember. (That was a fun adventure at least - I’ve both played through it and run it. I might run it again for my Eberron game. Plenty of places where the Styes would fit in!)

Indeed. I maintain that Lincoln’s assassination was one of the greatest tragedies in US history. If he’d survived, I think things might have turned for the better. Instead, we got Johnson punishing the southern states via military occupation and northern grifters (the so-called carpet baggers)...

I was born in 1981. Haven’t heard of any of those games before. Are they board games or computer games or what?

Oh OK! Weird. Thanks.

Sorry if this is slightly off-topic. I didn’t feel it warranted a whole new thread. Anyway, I was scrolling through FB yesterday, and there were some ads for Amazon Prime shows, one of which was Alien: Rubicon. What is that? And why is it on Prime, not Disney+?

Sure. This! The one in the illustration is also not half-buried in the mountain like it should be. I really do wonder about art orders for D&D books sometimes. Like the art director surely knows that the art isn’t right but they don’t care? Don’t have time to get the artist to redo it? Other...

Speaking of art not matching the map, that one is a prime example, since the chapter heading art shows an oversized warforged titan, not a warforged colossus. I’m still planning to run this adventure for my ongoing Eberron campaign as Vol: Eve of Ruin. I’ve done the ground work but haven’t got...

They weren’t originally going to kill her off. They decided that somebody had to die to up the stakes, though. I posted a link about it upthread.