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This was really useful for me to read, as it helps me realize that this has been the biggest stumbling block for me in the few PbtA games that I've played. I think if I grokked the escalation mechanic a bit better, I'd probably have enjoyed them more. Your remark about the "fictional persons...

10/10. I'd compare its beauty to a Rothko, but someone would tell me why Rothko is objectively PoMo trash.

Needs more use of the word "objectively." 7/10.

Although I play a F2F game once a month or so, I mostly play online: I run one game a week and play in a rotating DM game once a week. For DMing, I've invested pretty heavily in Roll20 for 5e and I mostly run prepackaged campaigns. For that, it's been great. For the game I'm a player in, we've...

I was 10 when my older cousin lent me the Mentzer red box set. I had played the solo scenario therein, but I don't know that I ran it for others before I had to return it. That said, I immediately started making my own games and running my friends and siblings through them until I could get my...

Aaaaaand we're back to the bolded font to indicate mind-reading. We went from a silly row over fighters to edition warring over warlords? Things took a weird turn.

Bolding the font of your unsubstantiated and sweeping generalizations is certainly going to sway folks.

Hi, all. Minor spoilers for Shattered Obelisk ahead. I started a Lost Mines campaign a few weeks ago, combining it with Dragon of Ice Spire Peak. Now that I have Shattered Obelisk, I'd like to run not only that, but also the expansions for DoISP: Storm Lord's Wrath, Sleeping Dragon's Wake, and...

As a Yooper, I assumed the same!

Curses! Haha.

I think it's in Waterdeep: Dragon Heist.

I get it, for sure, and 3.x's art style is probably my least favorite of the D&D editions overall. Even though I don't play Pathfinder, I really like WAR's stuff in those books because of how well he captures movement and action. I love the old Elmore, Caldwell, etc. stuff, but it's very...

This is probably the best example of what I mentioned earlier about my favorite 5e bits being the "quieter" moments. It's a great piece.

I really like WAR's dynamic style, but the dungeon-punk aesthetic always turned me off.

It's obviously this: KIDDING! I'm struggling to find images, but I in terms of the core books, I like a lot of the "quieter moments" where the PCs are at camp and such. For me, many of the module covers are more "iconic" than the contents of the core books. I love the cover art for WD: DH...

I'm glad you're enjoying it. My group has been playing it for the last several months and we're on the final chapter. While it's a bit more railroady than I generally like as a GM, it's been a great campaign. The attention to NPCs and place (especially in those early chapters) really gave my PCs...