Recent content by Juomari Veren

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...

As far as I'm aware, the Solasta team did approach WoTC about getting actual approval to use the system as a backbone for their game, whether it was before or after they got the ball rolling on development I don't know though. That said, the older wording of the OGL and SRD have given way to...

Hey, wait a second...That UPC says it retails for $49.99, I thought the price was going up to 59.99 for everything except the 2024 core. Did they walk that change back? Obviously not mad to be paying what's been a standard price for some time instead of paying more, but I didn't hear anything...

Okay but, to be fair, they could've put the information about the set they have a digital render for above the information for the set and it would've flown more naturally. Nice that they thought ahead of everyone who's gonna say something about how their favorite character/companion didn't make...

Absolutely beaming because I predicted this exact situation two years ago. Though I suppose I shouldn't pat myself on the back too hard, it was a pretty easy guess given how it ballooned in popularity over the last 7 years.

If it's intrinsically tied to DDB that's not so bad because that product has some extra features due to being out on the market longer, so a twofer of a compendium and tabletop is a more reasonable bang for your buck.

Well, it's "free to try", not free to start, which is already a departure from most of the VTTs on the market. I assume the free version is going to let you play with a curated selection of minis and use some of the premade themed maps, but I would imagine the buck stops there for a free trial...

This is in fact what makes this the most interesting thing they announced today to me; I have plenty of FR content from the last 10 years, don't really want more or anything new mechanically, and while Keep on the Borderlands and Caves of Chaos are two very cool adventures to see get facelifted...

I gave them the keys to success in the survey feedback; Don't just give them Hunter's Mark as a replacement for Favored Enemy, make it so their weapon attacks against Favored Enemies deal an additional die of damage, scaling up over time, and let them reselect Favored Enemies with some amount of...

I love that nobody's called attention to the fact that all of them are named fun fruity flavors and then Death's flavor is just called Death.

None of the other locations listed are particularly "iconic" about 5e, and to say each one is iconic even to a specific edition is a little bit of a stretch too honestly. When I think Ravenloft, first and foremost thing I think about is, you know, the castle? Where Strahd is? And since he's...

Back to Death House? Damn, instant turn-off. Might genuinely skip this book just because of that.

A little before the pandemic I believe, but I'm not surprised that it took so long to get back off the ground. I think part of the reason they stopped was because WoTC started doing business with Amazon directly, after that the release date was pretty firm between the internet and the stores...