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Blue … and foreshadow with electricity, like a static shock if they enter a room she is in.

Hmm, I can’t explain it, exactly, but once my wife and I checked into a hotel, got to our room, in an empty wing, and after a minute, she said, “Nope, nope, nope, this feels wrong.” I said, “Like someone is watching us.” She said, “Exactly!” We checked out - no questions on why - and I drove...

The adventures I remember best featured an ninja attack on The Inn of the Globe Fish in the mountains in winter, trapped in by snow. A Japanese style castle with ghosts and a talking carp down a well. People talked about that for decades (ran it in college), and my college friend who grew up...

Addresses? In a medieval city? That’s what I would be stuck on. Postal addresses have barely (or not) reached some parts of the current world. If you have 123 Main Street, Baldur’s Gate, BG3-SW2, it breaks immersion for me. I suppose if it’s “two doors down from the tooth puller on the...

In the sense of as far West as you can get without being an island or Iberia. Maybe it’s Lisbon? :)

Yes, but the emphasis of the rules and most adventures centered on Wa & Kozakura (versions of Japan based on different political periods of medieval history). Shou Lung & T’u Lung were a similar approach to China, but less prominent in the rules (Samurai, Yakuza, Bushi, Ninja) than fantasy...

The original OA is the first thing I DM’d. Glad to see a version of it coming back and in Japan first with apparently Japanese authors. Really the only way it could return. Pet issue, but I like Kara-Tur as a standalone setting, not as it was latter force fitted into Forgotten Realms...

I suspect the same. That and assuming you’re “obligated” to run every splatbook, including those at the very end of 3.5e. I suspect the average might be 7, but the median and mode are likely lower. One campaign that goes to 20 pulls up the average for many that sputtered at lower levels...

100%, when playing in anyone’s game, roll with it, let it go, let them figure things out - and you will learn too. I noticed the complaints were about being “weaker” than the player wanted - fewer HP points, lower AC. And not knowing the rules - a new system with unknown house rules. My...

That information is on the website.

And then Paizo buys D&D from WotC.

Not sure if Shadowheart and Daggerdark will be a new generation…

Mearls said the first generation was 1974-1983. Gen X is born 1965-1980. Anyhow, I started playing in 1982, with AD&D. Most gamers I played with from my class or about +/-5 started with AD&D 1e, which was 1978 to 1988. That Mearls first generation is OD&D and AD&D overlap, and cuts off AD&D...

I think Mearls is mostly right, and it’s about design generations, not player generations. Gen X played all of the design generations (were faded and jaded), whereas younger generations for the most part caught only the current (2000-present, 3e-5e2024) “4th generation”, with some Millennials...

Newbies - AD&D 1998 Fast-Play Game (The original scenario is in Dungeon Magazine #70, and was repeated in 71 & 72. Good for a short taste of D&D, though I converted it to 3.5e instead of simplified 2e.)

It is famously bad. Has WotC D&D ever had as disliked and disappointing a product? I can’t think of one. Even the Dark Alliance console game of a few years was only very boring and not worth playing again after a half-hour try … which is a much more positive review than WG-7 gets from the...

Two BRILLIANT opinions, one meh: 1) Castle Wolfmon sounds like Castle Wolfenstein 2) Snarf is always right 3) Anyone involved in a lawsuit about RPG’s who doesn’t have Snarf as their attorney is a fool of a client.

Seems like the question of “is 5e2024 successful” has devolved into arguments about power creep, balance, which editions are better, and “I’m right/your wrong”. Aww, ENworld, don’t you ever go changing on us.

Could be. Sounds reasonable. But only Hasbro knows for sure. I saw on the TV news that Hasbro complained about tariffs hitting the toy industry hard. Lots of business headwinds.

There’d more conflict and the 2015-2024 generation would experience the pain of all their stuff being made obsolete or having to switch. Compatibility makes sense to me, especially with WotC wanting to essentially keep the same popular game but ditch “problematic” pre-2024 wording if things...