Recent content by Burnside

All I remember is that he said the CR system “doesn’t work” and is not what they “use internally”.

I'm sure Crawford said they were gonna fix this?

Not only do I think Gen X players are a significant chunk of the player base, I think we actually get pandered to a LOT in the marketing and product choices - there is ALWAYS a nostalgia angle (80s cartoon characters in Witchlight, Icewind Dale because Drizzt, BG3 because BG 1 & 2, Acererak...

Radiant Citadel is this.

It’s included because it might make some people buy the book. The setting hasn’t been presented fully in more than a decade, and people are nostalgic for it. Nobody is going to NOT buy the new DMG because Greyhawk is in there, and it’ll get some extra curiousity/nostalgia buys. The second...

Also, while I don’t really like the halfling (sorcerer?) art, at least her head seems less grotesquely gigantic than the halflings in the 2014 PHB.

My problem with the cover (back cover too) is that they just don’t look like finished pieces of art to me. I know WotC likes this “painterly” style, and have throughout 5E really, but to me it just looks rough, unfinished, and kinda messy. The interior art with the old 80s cartoon party grown...

I really like the wide pieces for the player backgrounds: https://www.gameinformer.com/sites/default/files/styles/body_default/public/2024/05/13/d1764098/gidnd10.jpg

I like this one waaaaaay better than the cover.

Early release for To Slay a Dragon, Part 10! At Deephall Point, our heroes meet a new ally in their quest to slay Cirothe. Featuring Zachery Byrd of Young Dragonslayers as Theobad Troya. Available in the PodCast Party: A D&D Podcast feed, or right here: To Slay a Dragon Part 10: Troya Zack...

I am rarely a player; since 2017 I have participated in two long campaigns as a player (Tomb of Annihilation and Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus) that lasted 35-45 4-hour sessions and two short ones (Memories of Holdenshire and a homebrew one) that lasted 7 or 8 sessions. All of them were...

Have you read Radiant Citadel? Kinda feels like you haven’t.

Rabbit hole, thy name is this post. I took a look, and while it's a mixed bag, tbh none of them, even those that turn out to be really bad adventures, open with a piece of read-aloud text that is as bad as this one. Apart from the general tin ear awkwardness of the writing, it reads like it's...

The first piece of read-aloud text in the adventure, spoken by Lord Neverember to the party: “Greetings, my heroic friends! I’m so glad you came. I daresay, terrible events are afoot. Specifically, four prominent citizens have been kidnapped in the past several days. May I count on your help in...

I’ve just started reading through Dungeons of Drakkenheim from Ghostfire Games (which actually recently became available on DNDBeyond) and my impression thus far (about 1/3rd through it) is that it’s better than most of the official long-form 5E adventure books; certainly better than any long...