Recent content by Juomari Veren

I'm about to start playing in my first 3.5 game in more than a decade and was pondering quietly to myself what, if any, merit there would be to something like this (Including a number crunch like Payn also wanted to fit within the realms of bounded accuracy) but honestly, I just don't think it's...

Chris Perkins sums up my feelings on humans in fantasy extremely well; Once, when asked by a fan what his favorite type of creature to use as villains in a D&D campaign was, he simply answered, "Humans." And they're a necessary evil; They're the devil you know, because fact of the matter is...

If I may make one recommendation, even if this is a one-off instance of transcribing; Put this in a spoiler so that way it doesn't make one post that's several paragraphs long?

They don't have one for the game as a whole, but the Commander group went through a whole bunch of drama and ultimately got absorbed into Wizards when before it was an independently run committee. And with all due respect, Commander is their most popular format, they've admitted as such, so it's...

I find it interesting that both of WoTC's major products (Magic and D&D) now have their own individual community advisory groups for the game now. I wonder if that was part of the onus that lead to them making this decision?

I'm having one of those moments where I'm cross-referencing a PDF of homebrew I made for myself and wondering if I'm being watched 😆 I think what this says most of all is that whatever I'm making has a good foundational base if a larger group of TTRPG designers thought some of these concepts...

Yeah, everyone commenting on the art as art here are a little wild. These covers are better than some covers we've had in the past (frankly, I like these covers more than the normal cover to Dragon Delves, but I admit that's personal preference above all else). I'm glad that they reached across...

I just disagree with the notion that the tie-in wasn't meaningful. Yeah they could've done more tie in products but that's splitting hairs, they can do more of everything first- and third-party (lest it be forgotten, they don't own the rights to the characters from the movie that weren't...

They did do tie ins for Honor Among Thieves, but they were free. Free promotional material is still promotional material.

What really caught my eye was the maps underneath everything; The product description and press release describe the setting as a fantasy take on the actual setting of Stranger Things (Small town Indiana), but whether it's that with fantasy stuff mixed in or just a fantastical recreation of it...

Man, I was gonna be like "cool, a product I can actually skip this year", but the production values of it based on the press release are goddamn nice I don't even know that that's true 😭

That's fine, this goes from a midsummer impulse buy to a perfectly timed Christmas present for fellow D&D players. Shame it went from predating the starter set (which is not that hotly in demand as a splatbook, especially since this one is cheaper than a normal product AND the starter set is...

The adventure is one of the earliest adventures ever made for D&D and it's done well enough when they've brought it back for less successful systems. Also, on the topic of enfranchised players investing in this; I am buying it not just for the updated nostalgia bait but also because I like...

I'm suddenly way less worried about the future of WOTC (in a good, hopeful way) and way more interested in Darrington Press (in an "I love Jeremy and Chris" way).

What almost certainly doomed Sigil from the outset was that their initial vision for it positioned it as both its own product and something that's meant to seamlessly integrate DDB into it but is also entirely separate from the DDB ecosystem, when the only way it would've had a chance of...