D&D 5E Anyone else feeling "meh" about recent 5e releases?

[CapnZapp]

Late 3.5/early Pathfinder was aimed at adults.

Wouldnt really fly now, they had a Queen of the Succubi throne room Roman orgy style.

Who? Where? What?

I would say aiming at adults is fine and would fly well.

Aiming at white male young adults (at the exclusion of everyone else) would be another story, but it's hard to tell what you mean...

 

[Zardnaar]

Late 3.5 was kinda Paizo in Dungeon magazine. Quality picked up after Paizo took over.

Peak 3.5 adventures quality wise was towards the end of the edition. At least in Dungeon.

There was a reason Paizo retained 2/3rds of the subscriber lists, they picked up tens of thousands of subscribers.

 

[Xenonnonex]

Consider my interest piqued. Piqued, I say.

Rise of the Runelords has some amazing ideas, and it is quite dark. Very adult subject matter. All of which are gems from their freelancers.
I would highly recommend it despite it having some really stupid encounters.

 

[Zardnaar]

Who? Where? What?

I would say aiming at adults is fine and would fly well.

Aiming at white male young adults (at the exclusion of everyone else) would be another story, but it's hard to tell what you mean...

Towards the end of the Savage Tide AP. You cut alliances with the various demon Lord's and ladies including Iuz's mother.

One of them is Malcanthet the Succubi Queen and she is very persuasive. If you kill Demogorgon you're the new demon ruler of the abyss.

They also did a sealed adventure to support the book of vile darkness and an orphanage run by a demon in disguise.

And their pirate capital bity was also a debauched place. Want to buy some pleasure slaves of whatever gender.....

And IIRC Rise of the Runelords had flaying humans and wearing the skin.

And an infamous demon clown adventure iirc.

 

[Xenonnonex]

Late 3.5/early Pathfinder was aimed at adults.

Wouldnt really fly now, they had a Queen of the Succubi throne room Roman orgy style.

And they also had an orgy involving faeculant oozes in Wrath of the Righteous. Shaped like shapely women of course but also literal naughty word.

 

[Zardnaar]

And they also had an orgy involving faeculant oozes in Wrath of the Righteous. Shaped like shapely women of course but also literal naughty word.

I missed that one lol.

 

[ccs]

Consider my interest piqued. Piqued, I say.

Also read volume 3 of Reign of Winter. There's some twisted stuff in that dungeon, presented as PG13 as possible.

 

[CapnZapp]

an infamous demon clown adventure iirc.

Oh noes, we can't have infamous clowns - think of the children!

 

[Xenonnonex]

I missed that one lol.

She's called the Fulsome Queen, "although an omox demon, a creature made of living filth and excrement, she does her best to shape her form into one she imagines will be pleasing to her visitors to set them at ease. Her form is that of a partially solid succubus made of sludge and foul-smelling seepage"

lol?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Who? Where? What?

I would say aiming at adults is fine and would fly well.

Aiming at white male young adults (at the exclusion of everyone else) would be another story, but it's hard to tell what you mean...

Paizo isn't owned by a giant toy company...