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Last October, so only a few months ago WotC - D&D's Christopher Perkins Promoted to Creative Director

I’m a little surprised he managed to have such a long career there, what with the annual Christmas lay-offs that WotC seemed to be so keen on for many years!

Timothy Dalton could have been my favourite Bond overall. I really liked Sean Connery and early Roger Moore, but the thing I particularly liked about the Dalton movies was that they were set in a world with lots of competent people - soldiers, spies, etc. Most films have Bond as the only...

Isn’t that basically what they are doing with “Ballerina”? They are not casting Ana de Armas as ‘Jane Wick’ but introducing her as a new character in ‘his’ world!

I’m pretty sure that was originally there to replicate the Balrog breaking Gandalf’s “Hold Portal” spell when they are fleeing Moria

In OD&D the most common first level MU spell was Sleep, which was an automatic win against a wide range of low level foes (or party members!) but once used the MU was a feeble weakling. This led to situations where the 1st wizard who hadn’t cast his only spell was hugely feared, but once it was...

I’ve not looked at traveller for years - one of the things which was unusual about the early game was that there was no advancement after character generation - only collecting money and ‘things’. Is that still the case, or does the current traveller have the equivalent of XP and gaining or...

The whole crew doing ‘low passage’ 😀

Someone has probably said this already, but we kind of have - it was called Firefly. (Honestly the only time I can remember seeing six-guns in space)

I’ll be disappointed if they have removed the kua-toa whips and monitors (assassins and monks)

This is very much in the existing rules! This also is very much in the rules; perhaps they should make more of a point in emphasising it? It helps if one of the characters has ‘banter’, and as a GM I remind people that they can take a breather and recover a little.

Update - the first stretch goal has been met, so I'm able to commission some additional art by Marcin (examples of his work here - I love the detail, the expressions, the variations in their clothing!) There is another 14 days to go on the kickstarter, so there is still time to get involved :)

The quest is completed, the victory is won, and you are returning home. Along the way you tell your tale in flashbacks, creating the stories of your quest, the friends that you made and lost along the way. And at the end, discover whether your hopes and dreams have been fulfilled or dashed...

I can't recommend it highly enough. I've not quite finished the interview yet, so I don't know how much he goes into it, but there are several elements of the rules which are chef's kiss excellent. Especially the ones which allow you to reveal (and sometimes discover) little bits of the...

I've played several games of Brindlewood Bay over the last couple of years - several one-shots with continuing characters. These are sketches of our characters that I did (I played Pearl)

Also this blog post by Craig of Lunar Shadow Designs talks about his exhibitor experience and costs this year (elsewhere on his blog you can see his report for last year too) https://lunarshadow.net/2023/12/10/dragonmeet-2023-retrospective-1-sales-money/

There is an interesting blog post by an exhibitor here, which includes the hotel costs he paid https://byodinsbeardrpg.com/2023-12-04-dragonmeet_2023_report/

It was a delight to meet and chat in person after so many years! Interesting to consider just how much of a juggernaut 5e has become when compared even to the original d20 explosion. One of the dogs in question (my dog Tango)