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I'm running Death at Sunset next week. But my first change was to get rid of the brainwashed elves (my objection was more that I didn't buy the brainwashing and wasn't looking forward to roleplaying it, I didn't even think about how the information would be conveyed). I think I'm going to have...

A cake mimicking a mimic mimicking cake. That's getting pretty meta!

I'd just level up to Sorcerer 5/Warlock 3 if you're also doing a rules change and dip psion later. There's enough retconning happening without also having you forget 3rd level magic. Or else just put off the rules change until a later level-up.

I'm going to have to insist that when the buccaneer casts Find Familiar they can have the familiar manifest as a parrot (or, perhaps, monkey). I'm not sure why Rogue levels and Buccaneer levels shouldn't stack for sneak attack. That seems needlessly conservative, given how stingy you are with...

Well the basic 2024 Wizard chassis is pretty strong, and it's a good thing too because WotC seems to want to make all the Wizard subclasses a little underwhelming. I used to play a 5e Conjuration Wizard and my favorite part was Minor Conjuration. It had little practical value, but every use of...

I'm one Phoenician Scheme away from having seen all of them, and should have that dealt with before the month is done. Royal Tenenbaums is pretty clearly the best in my mind. Moonrise Kingdom and Grand Budapest Hotel are similarly masterpieces. Rushmore was a standout early work and the one I...

I this is what I went for in my own homebrew 5e clone. But I also gave everyone two attacks on the attack action at level one, so the damage curve at low levels was less affected. Meanwhile, while I was working to simplify, WotC was working overtime to come up with ways to make it all more...

I don't have high hopes for the actual movie, but this announcement video is pretty funny.

There was also "Paws of Fury" a couple years ago, an animated samurai homage/remake of Blazing Saddles with anthropomorphic cats and dogs, which he executive produced and voice-acted in. I don't think it's really about a paycheck. I think it's more about a now 97 year-old man (with a birthday...

Personally I think I'd prefer an equivalent set-up of "would-be hero turned and brought darkness to the galaxy" somewhere in the old republic era (or whatever distant Star Wars era you prefer), without the need to involve major iconic franchise characters in key roles. It's way less pressure on...

Oh, okay. I'm in the "fine with 5e and don't want anything to change" camp. So it sounds like it's probably still just a (to me) crappier version of 5e that adds nothing I like better (other than, it seems, the cover art). Good to know.

Okay. I kind of figured it was all along. But I got a new job as a teacher in a remote village, disconnected from my D&D groups, overworked, and often without internet, and haven't really followed the development of 2024 D&D at all since April or so of last year, and back then everyone here...

Well that's cumbersome branding. "Hey what edition are we playing". "We're playing the 2024 revisions of the D&D 5e core rulebooks!" Presumably "OneD&D" was just a nightmare I had.

So far this cover art is my favorite thing about 6e (or whatever it's called now).

Thumbed through it at the bookstore the other day. I mean they definitely went big, I'll give them that. But all the worst aspects of WotC official adventures for me revolve around shoehorning in "big characters", and this adventure seems to treat that as the main draw and selling point (I...

The Paladin is based on medieval literature and ideals of knighthood, not on medieval history. While I don't remember as much as I'd like from my graduate reading on the subject, one thing I remember multiple historians noting is that the literary knight actually arrives shockingly fast...

I think the standard 2 pack of minis retailing for $5.99 or whatever is the bread and butter of Wizkids, and I don't think it makes economic sense for them to undercut the retail sales of those. I would guess it is hard enough to get enough store space to display much of their range with the...

Well suddenly it got some momentum again today. It stalled out for like three or four days and I was getting worried. I've never been so invested in a kickstarter, but then again I think this is the first time one for something I've really cared about has happened and I actually became aware of...

50-75 for my own use and about 150 more I bought in bulk when I was running games for a Summer camp.

I guess "Alien 6 (but actually maybe 7, 8, or possibly 9... depends what you count" wasn't a punchy enough title.