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Session 1. In the opening narration, I established that the player characters have answered the Keep's call for adventurers. They were on a caravan traveling north from Waterdeep. As the caravan entered the Sword Mountains, they were harried by goblin raiders. Over the course of two days and...

Normally we have five players. At Session Zero only three were available. I'll update this list of characters as additional characters are generated. No restrictions or guidance from me -- the players could make any character they wanted. We are using 5.5E rules and starting at level one. Gold...

This thread contains the session recaps of my latest 5.5E campaign, "The Keep on the Borderlands". It's an expansion and remix of the Heroes of the Borderlands Starter Set. Which I'm playing with my kids. But this campaign is run online with my primary group of fellow Gen Xers. There's six of us...

Quick update on my 13th Age campaign. We are putting this campaign on pause because of health issues with one of the players. Doesn't feel right to wrap this up without his involvement. Hopefully he's back soon. As a reminder, it's Eyes of the Stone Thief expanded to cover all 10 levels. Five...

Great point.

Finally got around to reading this UA. Cool stuff. I like it. A few quibbles, sure. Curious what book this might show up in...

It would be cool if WotC used 3rd party developers to revive some of their older, unused games like Gamma World, Star Frontiers, Top Secret (?), etc.

Agreed. Mearls would do a great job on Gamma World. But my dream designer is Robert Schwalb. He did an amazing not-quite-Gamma World called Punkapocalyptic which has some cool design innovations I'd love to see brought over to 5E.

...actually, this can only mean one thing: GAMMA WORLD!

Actually I'm not disapproving. Just observing.

I believe the TikTok generation doesn't understand "copyright" or "authorship" on a fundamental level. Everything in their life is a remix. They just don't get it.

I'm saying that DND Beyond is the primary point of connection between WotC and 3rd party publishers and the data WotC collects from it likely influences their strategy going forward. Including the hiring of this new role.

I think we have differing assumptions. My assumption is that DND Beyond is a major revenue stream for D&D. Perhaps even THE major revenue stream -- or on track to soon become the leader. Regardless, it's clear that 3rd party content on DND Beyond is 1) making money for WotC and 3rd party...

Here we go again with wild speculation. This single job posting does not mean the sky is falling. Dan Ayoub comes from video games and among video game publishers it is standard to have a point of contact for third party game development. To me, this is analogous. If you spend any time on DND...

I'm curious about that too. And skeptical. Perhaps it's simply that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

I'm a huge fan of Shadow of the Weird Wizard/Demon Lord. Probably my favorite not-D&D game.

You might want to look at Mike Mearls' Project Moldvay. It's a simplified version of 5E. Not as simple as Shadowdark, perhaps closer to B/X. And it's not a throwback nostalgia game.The vibes are modern. I'm not sure how soon Mearls will crowdfund it (probably later this year) but it's playable...

Session 8: They finished Cavern J but have not yet recovered the treasure in the hidden sarcophagus room. We'll use that as the strong start for our next session.

I guess I forgot to post about session 6. My son (age 6) and daughter (age 9) finished Cave D by defeating the mimic. Super fun monster for kids. Then they returned to the Keep for shopping and socializing. More importantly, they reached level 2. They were happy to get more hit points and spell...