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Prince Thyffon's eyes narrowed as the group all looked about at each other, hoping someone else would step forward. Valda was boldest, though she could not mask her complicated feelings regarding giant-kind. The cloud giant's hand gripped the handle of his sword, as if he was tempted to draw...

I'm on it, just every time I have a moment to post, something comes up. Expect a post from me soon!

I could be wrong, but I doubt that has anything at all to do with it. My F2F group is incredibly casual. I would characterize only one out of seven of us who is particularly versed in setting lore (and it's not me or any of our three rotating DMs. We got together in 2008 with 4e, and we...

Oh, that's absolutely true - I just meant that I can empathize with the concern about getting the game to its conclusion. That's the part that is similar. It is very different when it comes to talking to NPCs and RPing your character's thoughts and words, which PBP is very good at. Exploration...

In fact, I have a good example of a situation in which I ABSOLUTELY experience the same sort of thing that you've been talking about - here on ENWorld, when I run or play Play By Post games! PBP games take forever to get anywhere. We are lucky to complete a single round of combat once a WEEK...

Absolutely. I don't quite get why it always seems that some really important information is always missing, yet there's also always stuff that seems to be repeated. But what you say is exactly the sort of thing that I mean. Give each part more space (not necessarily more words, though in some...

:mad::p PPPppbbpbpbpthhhhhhhtt.

I think that happens to every 5e adventure. They seem to suffer a bit in editing (not to bash the editors). Again, I think that they should try to do less with each adventure and use the space to make them better.

I'm glad that I don't foresee your doomsday scenario coming to pass. Otherwise I might be worried! I am concerned that WotCs business practices have been short sighted (to say the least) and desperate lately, but I don't think that it's quite as dire as you predict. Yet. We'll have to see.

On the subject of the 5e Adventures being retreads of older ones: It's definitely a stretch to say most of them are retreads, but that was true at the beginning of 5e. The designers specifically said that they were. Princes of the Apocalypse is even called "Elemental Evil" in its branding...

The things that make it a capstone are: 1) It's the last "AP"-style Adventure book before the new books drop. (Timing) 2) They created a plot that is a "review of what came before" (Plot) 3) It's the first/only 5e adventure to "finish" the campaign at Level 20. (End) It IS a capstone, IMO, but...

That might be a bit harsh of an implied judgement, but I have to admit: IMO it takes patience sometimes to Play Nice With Others. I'm glad that I generally play with a pretty laid-back group. Not everybody gets exactly what they want all the time, and that fact doesn't bother anyone. For...

I think that's exactly it, you nailed it - they can work well in some games and at some tables, when there's a lot of buy-in by both the DMs and the Players involved, in that they've found a way to make them work for their table and game. However, they don't suit all tables or all campaigns. In...

Let me think: If you're from Icewind Dale in Rhime of the Frostmaiden, you'd stay close to home most of the Adventure. Close enough, anyhow. Almost all of Storm King's Thunder sticks to the north part of the Sword Coast. Princes of the Apocalypse is in an even smaller part. Aside from the...

You gonna get the new Vecna book? It's already out at FLGSs! I'm probably going to run it when the new core books arrive. We have a campaign to finish first - I hope we'll get it done in time. I mean, obviously it can wait for us, but I don't want to wait too long after the new books are out to...