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Kobold Press always made nasty monsters IMO. I remember using some creatures from the original Tome of Beasts and being surprised how much they could do for their CR.

I like it. Colorful, cool adventurers, dragons, clean design. Pretty standard if I'm being honest but that's not a bad thing.

I definitely agree. Designing encounters and eyeballing difficulty is my biggest annoyance with 5e, so its aspect of the rules I'm most susceptible to bending for the sake of an engaging combat. The presence of books like Monster Manual Expanded and especially Flee Mortals! seems to imply that a...

Yeah, well as much as it may not matter to you or I, having the "official" IP matters more to some people. I do think an official HP tie-in would probably sell more than "off-brand" attempts. (No shade intended.) I didn't hear that it was bad, just okay. Repetitive quest design and such. I've...

This is awesome, always glad to see MCDM doing well too.

It would definitely do well, but I'm sure would be damn controversial, given how JKR conducts herself these days. I mean, look at Hogwarts Legacy. That said, if JKR was Hands-off and you had a more considerate team producing the game, I'd be very interested. I was interested in Hogwarts Legacy...

Reynard's game philosophy here seem a little chaotic for me, but I don't think I'm that far off either. My usual group are all close friends, I know they aren't bad actors, so I allow them to make characters without any input, using official materials. Anything 3rd party I would ask to see...

Forgotten Realms, though its a love-hate relationship. With so many different authors over so many years, I think the setting has an identity problem and has become a bit too generic in modern versions. However I really love the old-school Greenwood stuff, which feels far more consistent and...

I dunno if I'd say that. I just wish Pathfinder had Beholders and the Warlock class, as an example.

Pathfinder 2nd Edition has been my main game for the last year. I'm Satisfied with it. The reason it isn't higher is mostly for what I've lost, coming from D&D. Certain OGL creatures, spells, classes, etc that I had to leave behind. The remaster added on to that with further tweaks to spells...

Just listened to the first one today, and I did find it more engaging than my first watch of the full episode. But you can tell there are cuts and sometimes they can be a bit jarring. I think a hour podcast is ideal for actual plays, but they're usually designed that way from the get-go...

You might want to look at Dragonbane for inspiration. The box set includes 11 short adventures, that can be played in any order (except for one, which is to be played last.) It has a pretty classic setup: There's a nice rumor table to seed the different adventure sites. I started with the...

True, but does it matter if they're actually live or just debuting a recorded episode live? If you enjoy watching it with the Twitch chat and finding out what happens every week like a TV show, I feel like it shouldn't make much difference. But perhaps I'm the outlier. I always fall behind...

Have to concur. They're obviously obsessed, but also the first to be super toxic about the latest episode or how bad Aabria's DM'ing is, etc. Better than the Twitch chat though.

Not sure how much the liveplay aspect really matters. All the other big shows and podcasts are pre-recorded, but who knows. Maybe that was a significant factor for the fans. The CR subreddit has been pretty critical (heh) of this campaign since the beginning, though I can't say how...

I totally agree. D&D has this sort of assumed and implied milieu of Dwarves, Elves, Humans and Halflings that all look and behave a certain way. The actual Default setting of D&D has changed multiple times over editions (Example: Greyhawk for 3rd) but the implied setting remains largely the...

Really don't like your suggestions, since I think we're well past the point of using a 1d4 for Hit Dice (Seriously, that's just brutal) and downgrading a bunch of classes to smaller hit dice (particularly the d6) doesn't feel good either. Fixing that Caster/Martial divide isn't going to be done...

I haven't played many of them, but you should check out Tarondor's Guide, it was very helpful for me when deciding which ones I wanted to try out.

Baldur's Gate 3 has no day/night cycle, passage of time, etc. It makes sense to limit it in that context, since you have no time pressure to limit their use. (Either from hours available in a day, or from an impending threat. Time mostly stands still in BG3.) Similarly this is why Long Rests...

Well now that I've been playing D&D for over a decade, I can safely say Nostalgia has a big part of it. The clatter of dice on the table, the smell of beer and pretzels, pushing painted (and unpainted) figures around my well-loved vinyl battlemap, worn and stained from a decade of battles. The...