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Aside from the D&D brand, which WOTC purchased and was then purchased by Hasbro, I argue that 13th Age is as much D&D as 4th edition is. Maybe moreso since the designers didn't have corporate mandates that guided design. Same with Pathfinder. I bring it up because I often see a lot of "I sure...

Backstabbing for a ton of damage and then firing off telekenesis and keeping it up as a bonus action was pretty gonzo. Another problem that we had a conversation about is the ability to use two magic items the same turn or even the same magic item twice because the rogue can use both an action...

Or find an alternative platform we own. I have dreams of a nice web-based compendium and character builder functionality in Foundry. No luck so far from what I gather.

I also don't know why we have to put so much weight on Hasbro for our RPG fun time. There are so many awesome RPGs with so many different feelings and flavors going on. Let's elevate those! Here are some that have my attention that run a wide range of playstyles in the fantasy RPG world...

This is one of those "I wonder how players would feel about it if I did it to them" sort of spells. I've always adjudicated that a pile of magic missiles only forces one concentration check because otherwise enemy spellcasters would pepper the hell out of the characters with magic missiles and...

The issue with Twilight Clerics and other WOTC-published broken stuff (Silvery Barbs) is that they're all considered default in D&D Beyond. If it weren't for D&D Beyond, it wouldn't be a problem. But players expect that if its in D&D Beyond, they can use it, and that ends up a big mess. DDB not...

I think it has always fallen to the GM to adjudicate these sorts of things and that should be built into the games we run. I now have a disclaimer at the beginning of my campaigns (which I talk about in this panel) that I tell players "hey, if something's not working out, I expect we can have a...

Each of us get to decide if something's not working for us. For me, the Twilight Cleric had way too much damage mitigation going on. It wasn't just healing, it was essentially giving every character a round-resetting damage threshold of 1d6 + cleric level. It also took a lot of time at the...

I still think fireballs are really powerful. I've played close to a thousand 5e games in the past ten years and no one has ever been disappointed with fireball. Light clerics love fireball and I think they shouldn't have it on their list. Our super high level wizard still casts fireball like...

It occurred to me that we shouldn't have expected a lot of AD&D players at a 5e panel. I don't know why I didn't bring that up.

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A lot of it depends on what I already have ready and where the characters are in the story. I tend to just pay less attention to things I used to focus on. A handful of descriptors for a location is all I need – even just one descriptor if I'm filling out rooms in a dungeon. Lots of little...

Me too!

I prep to improvise. About 30 minutes or so of prep for a 3 hour game using the eight steps.

My first D&D campaign was out of the FR boxed set set in Corm Orp opposing Manshoon and the Zhentarim! Back in the late 80s.

Annoyed at the limited licenseable supplements released on D&D Beyond only for the upcoming Forgotten Realms book got me to look at older Forgotten Realms products available in wonderful downloadable PDFs on DriveThruRPG. I picked up a bunch and a few stuck out at me as good lore-rich products...

I really like this map pack and I think I'm going to buy it. I think there's room for it in my house...somewhere... I've been going through old FR material available in glorious PDF on DriveThruRPG and one of the things I like about this map pack is that it's an evergreen product. I could play...

I mean, am I right? We're paying them our money! (Technically, I received a review copy..)

You and I talked about this elsewhere but just for our friends here on EN World, I'm totally good with the open approach but it had me scratching my head when you have four encounters along the road and two of the four have no connection to the others. Why are they even grouped together? It felt...

I can make up whole adventures! What am I paying them for? Yeah, I can, but in the case of the cart in the first scenario of the wilderness, one big missing factor is "who was robbed? where are they now?" For my player, this was the main question they had. Have they been kidnapped? Are they...