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Ok, I started reading through the adventure. How does

Somewhat Satisfied. EN's Level Up A5e is great- for the Monstrous Menagerie and Trials & Treasures. And their dungeon delves book. I like most of the Adventurers Guide as well! Except the origins and some of the classes/features result in much more powerful characters than you'd get from 5e-...

Well here's the thing: most of the map Patreons out there? You can subscribe for a month, download most or all of their backlog, and stop after a month of sub- but that's kind of a jerk move :'D (but waaay cheaper than buying a ton of maps on dtrpg etc) I use FoundryVTT and Moulinette Cloud...

I know they said "off the rails" as in "whacky/out there," but the adventure seems pretty on the rails as far as railroads go 😆

I thought SKT was directly inspired by AtG. It certainly follows a similar pattern of battling your way up the ranks through each giant type. A lot of 5e adventures were "love letters" to older adventures. Those old adventures were definitely the starting premise for a lot of 5e adventures- "ok...

Good thing you've kept out of it. I spent $$$/month on map Patreons before I started professional GMing. Going pro let me talk myself into spending even more since it'd be a write-off :')

I remember that clip of Orlando Bloom on set confusedly asking how many movies it was going to be. Those movies' production was such a fustercluck.

@Morrus ^^^

A5e splits exhaustion into two tracks: Fatigue (physical) and Strife (mental). If you have more than one level of either, you can't heal it without resting at a Haven. Basically a comfortable safe place like an inn where there's reasonable expectation that you won't be attacked. So if a...

I feel like OP needs to his post to include Elmore's updated post- it seems like he was asked the question out of context and/or reconsidered what he had to say about it. Having folk see the updated post might clarify things.

Yup. There ya go. So again, we are left with a case of "look, it's something D&D already tried... in 4e."

Maybe it's explained? Like, Vecna isn't the one doing this, it's his worshippers- since gods, depending on the setting, gods can't go monkeying around directly with the worlds? I don't have the adventure, so I'm not going to be able to look through it myself to see if that's explained. Or I...

Was this the magic item stuff that you could disenchant items into in 4e? I forget what it was called.

Yeah, the best way to make sure no one gives a crap is to not have them at all relevant to characters, make them way too subtle or just "background material," and make it seem like it's a big deal that they're in a bunch of adventures.. and that they do nothing in them. Few people are going to...