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Yep, watched it and enjoyed it. Bought the DVD set when it came out, but of course it doesn't really hold up. But I have found the callbacks to it in the 2024 books to be fun.

I have always seen campaign setting books as sandbox guides for DMs. The 3rd edition Forgotten Realms book was very good for this purpose, with adventure ideas for almost every region, and I wonder if we'll see similar in the new FR book for DMs this year. Both the Starter Set and the Essentials...

I ran the original Caverns of Thracia several times back in the AD&D days and as mega-dungeons go, it's quite good. The many levels are interconnected in unexpected ways and it's rare for two runs to go exactly the same way. You can easily run a whole campaign there. I bought the 3e conversion...

In one of my non-2024 campaigns, my players have a villa with a dozen employees and a ship with a crew of thirty, including five officers/specialists. I laid out the basics (number of retainers needed, their respective roles, monthly payroll, etc.), and told them if they wanted the NPCs to have...

I have baked them into the plot of an existing campaign that I've updated to the 2024 rules, just moving a few events around so that the option becomes available as the group reaches 5th level. It's a city campaign with guilds and great houses that the players interact with so the Bastions will...

I checked my records for my online (Fantasy Grounds) weekly games. The first group plays for three hours a week; for their most recent campaigns they were levels 10-11th and 7th respectively as of the start of session 56. Their second campaign is going at a slower pace since it's very RP-heavy...

I spent $200 buying the 2024 hardcovers and The Shattered Obelisk, and $120 buying the 2024 books in Fantasy Grounds, along with Quests from the Infinite Staircase. I also pay for a room rental at my FLGS for my biweekly Sunday game, so probably just shy of $500 for the year altogether. Given...

The only thing I'm really looking forward to right now is the new Monster Manual, so we have a complete set of the new rules. I'll probably get the new Forgotten Realms books when they come out, but I'd just as soon have more time to get used to the new rules before they start dropping...

A lot will depend on the setting. In my current urban-focused campaign, History and Religion get used a lot more than Nature, for example. I find Intimidation and Persuasion to be somewhat redundant, in most instances. Medicine tends to be fairly unnecessary if there is a cleric in the party. I...

I started with Basic and AD&D in the early 80s. Played off and on through college, then stopped for a while. I joined a 3e group for a while in my 30s but found the combat encounters a drag, plus it was a pretty long drive (the host lived a few towns over). I did play over a dozen lengthy...

In my homebrew setting, dinosaurs are found on another continent far from the one where I run most of my campaigns (along with dragonborn and other "animal" humanoids like tabaxi). One of my groups made it over there, and their presence (bolstered a bit from the MM stock versions) really helped...

As a veteran DM, I read the opening guidance chapters once and will probably never revisit them again. But for a new DM they would be quite useful. As someone who runs games on a VTT, all three core books are essential to every session; having the magic items and various tables ready to go...

I ran the first five back in the day, and put together a 5e conversion of The Lost City well before the line up for Infinite Staircase was announced. I also have fond memories of Horror on the Hill, even though I know it's not widely considered one of the greats. I would have to mention Keep on...

Great news. As someone who watched the entirety of campaign 1 on YouTube, I think that the CR team has done a great job distilling hundreds of hours of videos into a coherent and engaging animated story. I grab a month of Prime each time a new season comes out (and unsubscribe immediately after).

This is hyperbole; there is a fair amount of space between a DM enforcing material component costs and "tracking every last copper in a game." Material component costs are a balancing feature that are there for a reason; it's not punishing players to require a caster to acquire them. Securing a...

Be sure to enforce the 10gp/use material component cost. It may not seem like much, but it helps prevent the spam-cast approach to using the familiar at the lower levels. It's definitely powerful at first level, but becomes less so over time.

That seems like a stretch. The entire passage quoted by Sulicius is the rule. The words "foe" or "enemy" are used four times. The intent of the rule seems obvious to me, but I'll add this to my House Rules list, just in case any of my players are ENWorld legalists.

While I personally agree with UngeheuerLich's reading of the rules in question, I can see where the other interpretations could be valid as well. I suspect that this will be clarified in errata, but based on this discussion I have already drafted the following house rule for my table: For...

Agreed, the spell description is more specific than the general rule. Reading it otherwise would make polymorph, a fourth level spell, superior to power word fortify, a seventh level spell, and would make an edge case superior to the actual intended use of the spell. I'm sure we'll see an errata...

If you look at how the ads at the start and the announcements bits generally go (which are scripted), that should dispel any notions that they're working off a script for the game.