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— Brennan, can I have a strength 3 instead of 15? — Yeah sure. No matter how good I roll, I want one 8.

Beacon is Vimeo. Youtube is Google. Sure, Twitch is Amazon but considering how twitchy it is many people are using the other two. (For Age of Umbra, Youtube had far more live viewers than twitch.)

Having a cartoon on Prime doesn't mean you're automatically prioritizing them as a book distributor. They're probably using it for some countries hard to reach through more dependent channels, but Amazon has shown that they take preorders and then deliver new orders before fulfilling those...

But even so, I would have bought a Lorwyn-Shadowmoor setting book even if I seldom DM D&D. I'm not going to buy a D&D Beyond add-on.

I'm not going to comment on the folding MTG planes into Forgotten Realms because I am not the audience of Forgotten Realms at all. But if they're going back to doing the short digital releases of the MtG D&D stuff, I really wish they'd start doing to the Art of Magic books again. Those were great.

And there's a follow-up series too that I've yet to read but it's on the list for me. But yes, the world building and scope and all of that are things I love about these books. I really like how Steven Brust did with the Vlad Taltos books — they all fit together as a whole but they're also...

Worse than that, AD&D 2e also had Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue, an in-world Sears's catalogue for the Forgotten Realms.

While I do agree that C3 was a bit jarring and awkward pacingwise and with the plot and characters not really meshing, I really don't think it's worse than any other published adventure path. In fact, had it been "prewritten" I bet it would have been a lot smoother than it was.

And in this case, it makes sense that the plates are saved. Because they might have split up the print run in order fit the print queue but normally that's not a problem with rpgs because they rarely sell out this fast. (Print queues in a Covid-world if weird and a problem, not only availability...

Do you need Gods to feel happiness and hope and fun? I've managed pretty good so far. And I'd assume that if in a world where moral people killed gods, you can go pretty much anywhere. It says nothing about how everything suddenly becomes a dreary Dark Souls world just because the Umbra world...

Didn't really care about C3 plot and it had pacing issues as well as it was clear players and GM were at odds about it. But I don't think anything CR has done has been as damn theatrical and dramatic as Vax in campaign one. Every interaction had an air of "this might be the dramatic scene!" I'm...

If you want new books asap and not having to go through the whole pre-press process from start, using the old non-errata plates will speed things up remarkably. Then you only need a place in the print queue. Considering that they just added some of the errata into the PDF but haven't had time...

I never finished it due to how Cortex licensing kept being obtuse and restrictive, but I did start something with the name Carts of Darkness inspired by Anthony Bourdain's street food episodes and Stephen Chow's God of Cookery : "This game is about a small community of food trucks and food...

Which is great for some but for others the idea Shadowdark rest on — dungeon crawl — is really boring. It's fine for oneshots but nothing substantial. Different games for different folks. Mythic Bastionland seems far more interesting to me, but that's also superniche. And that fine. Comparing...

Me just seeing the logo: Ugh, this looks like Tim Burton. Pass! Me seeing it's by Bryan Fuller: Give it to me now!

Apart from Liam most of the Critical Role cast are still rather reaction-based in their play. I think Ashley was leaning into it more as Umbra went along, but most of the others are "tell us Matt!" I agree that Matt's retelling of deathblows doesn't help at all and they all have the potential to...

And if you're uncertain, ask your players about things that their characters would know. Don't do "what do you see in the chest?" but rather "you know this person you stumbled onto, you grew up together. Describe them from your point of view."

As if he wouldn't funnel it into an RPG summer camp so more kids could afford to go. Possibly with a grown-up version too. "D&D in a Castle" seems like a good gig if you can get it, and people who can afford it clearly don't struggle for money to throw at it. But I have a feeling Brennan has...

I'm not so sure. Ashley is also a "what would be most fun" kind of person so remaking the character would be vibe-based. I think Laura and Liam would have more issues with picking appropriate abilities and finding what maps to their character best when there's no 1-to-1 choices.

Speaking only for myself, the sponsored actual plays had me go "oh cool, they're doing a campaign set in this frame! Wait, nevermind. It's just a oneshot. I'll pass."