Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Good Third Party 5E Products
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6559233" data-attributes="member: 6787650"><p>Quests of Doom is excellent for my purposes. (There are some adventures I'll use for my game, but my main purposes are idea-mining and giving myself solo adventures to play through on my own, so I can have surprises.) 90% of the adventures in it are solid, believable and usable, and the editing conventions like in-line stats also make the product easy to use.</p><p></p><p>Fifth Edition Foes is great. The monsters are more interesting than MM monsters; probably more difficult too but that's good IMO, and they still obey DMG rules on CR. I unfortunately haven't used the monsters much yet in play, but that's because referencing a laptop during play is awkward. I'm sure I'll use it more once the hardcovers arrive.</p><p></p><p>Book of Lost Spells is fantastic. Doubles or triples (?) the number of spells potentially in play, forcing casters into some really painful dilemmas. There are a few spells which are overpowered (Iron Core) and a few which are underpowered and completely dominated by PHB spells (Aura of Nobility), but the main thing this adds is VARIETY. It feels like what the Tome of Magic did for priests in AD&D2: made them interesting for lots of things besides healing, but at an opportunity cost. I'm definitely going to use this book's undead-enhancement spells like Iron Body against my players. Not that I couldn't have arbitrarily enhanced the undead opposition anyway, but I dislike doing that unless it was either a one-time fluke like a negative energy surge or I know how the PCs could theoretically achieve the same thing. In this case it's the latter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6559233, member: 6787650"] Quests of Doom is excellent for my purposes. (There are some adventures I'll use for my game, but my main purposes are idea-mining and giving myself solo adventures to play through on my own, so I can have surprises.) 90% of the adventures in it are solid, believable and usable, and the editing conventions like in-line stats also make the product easy to use. Fifth Edition Foes is great. The monsters are more interesting than MM monsters; probably more difficult too but that's good IMO, and they still obey DMG rules on CR. I unfortunately haven't used the monsters much yet in play, but that's because referencing a laptop during play is awkward. I'm sure I'll use it more once the hardcovers arrive. Book of Lost Spells is fantastic. Doubles or triples (?) the number of spells potentially in play, forcing casters into some really painful dilemmas. There are a few spells which are overpowered (Iron Core) and a few which are underpowered and completely dominated by PHB spells (Aura of Nobility), but the main thing this adds is VARIETY. It feels like what the Tome of Magic did for priests in AD&D2: made them interesting for lots of things besides healing, but at an opportunity cost. I'm definitely going to use this book's undead-enhancement spells like Iron Body against my players. Not that I couldn't have arbitrarily enhanced the undead opposition anyway, but I dislike doing that unless it was either a one-time fluke like a negative energy surge or I know how the PCs could theoretically achieve the same thing. In this case it's the latter. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Good Third Party 5E Products
Top