Recent content by grimslade

Not sure why Greyhawk having Dragonborn and Goliath is a big deal. They will be small populations like every other demihuman race. You have 'monster' run nations in Greyhawk. Turosh Mak wouldn't turn away giant-kin or Dragon Men in the Pomarj or under Iuz. 1e had a lizardfolk assassin in 1E in...

I am glad Greyhawk is getting something finally. A new poster map with the Flaeness and City of Greyhawk. Sold right there. I don't think we are getting a complete update to Greyhawk. This won't be the full setting. They will use Greyhawk to provide the examples for How to Build a Campaign...

I think the tension between the codified Gygaxian game and the permissible Arnesonian style is what led to the endurance of D&D. House rules and rule ignoring pushed and pulled the game to taste for each table. Even the rules had different ways to skin a cat, Dual Classing vs. Multiclassing is a...

Summoned Scribes from Mechanus. Plus the population is so small you only need to run under 20 copies. How many miners can read anyways? I believe this is an artists recreation of the scene. Starving artists need work too. Jimmy Olsen the court sketch artist maybe?

Very stoked for this. I am curious to see the adjustable 'rating' slider for the adventure. LMoP was a near perfect introduction to D&D and it worked for all ages. Dear lord, I have so much terrain to make in less than a month...

Oofta provided a really good summary above and Micah Sweet makes a great point as well. I am not worried about D&D. The TTRPG is going to continue with the 4 adventure and splat releases a year, but no real significant changes. There will be many more CRPGs, Digital tabletops, and weird phone...

Finally a dissenting opinion! I agree that the Eberron alt cover is the best, but most of the alt covers have been good. This cover takes a product I already like, Lost Mines, and gives it a nostalgia twist with good Old Ones imagery. I want to see the back too.

I likes it. It makes me feel all Errol Otus-y

I am excited for this release. I have already started converting LMoP to be run in Greyhawk, Sterich post-war of the giants 595CY. I hope they don't go too heavy on the factions for FR, but it will just be another thing to convert. I also don't mind being in a backwater location for 12 levels...

Really this is Paladin Oaths writ small. Every society has mores and taboos. For most sentient creatures cannibalism is taboo, but lizardfolk and kreen might see not eating the dead as wasteful. Does that make a lizardfolk paladin slightly evil? Edicts and anathemas just fine tune the alignment...

The appeal in the design of the warlock is it's simplicity. You are limited compared to a wizard who has a spell book of choices to indulge multiple times a day. The most powerful warlock has a handful of spells of level 5 and lower plus a few invocations and mystic arcanum. Eldritch blast spam...

I imagine we learn about Giants, the Phandelver campaign and Planescape. There will be some teasers about the VTT and new digital features coming. I imagine they will also release the next playtest packet and pimp that a bit. Finally they will have a tease of a surprise being unveiled at Gen-Con...

Not painted but can be printed to a size you like. Dungeon Demon Idol

Bloodied. Minions. Are easy amendments to 5E. Nothing better than slashing through mooks on the way to the BBEG. Bloodied with a list of actions/reactions for players and monsters triggered by the condition could be a page if done as a chart with a paragraph or two description on the mechanic...