Recent content by Reynard

Don't get me wrong. I LOVE Dragonlance. And if I was 12 again, I imagine I would be ecstatic for a show. But DL does not really stand up to an even cursory critical examination.

I continue to be shocked that there is not a Drizzt (or however you spell it) show. I also continue to be sad that there is not a Arcane level quality Eberron animated series.

Has a book audience ever been happy with changes?

I meant in general. WoT is probably the biggest non-Tolkien fantasy ever (maybe Stormlight has surpassed in in sales?) and still could not hold an audience. I think GoT was an anomaly and DL would legit bomb no matter how good the production was because the story just isn't very good.

I don't know. If Wheel of Time could not make it work, I have serious doubts about DL.

That did not go so well last time...

Everything is printed out. As always with my con campaigns, the latter parts are very rough because what happens early will be important. But im super excited.

There has never been a time where you did not build your D&D character. You may have rolled your stats, but you picked your race and/or class, your weapons and whatever other elements were available depending on the edition. Character creation in D&D has never been totally random.

Dispatch releases today. WOOOT! That is all.

I was just about to post this. Excellent video. Literally everyone in this thread should watch it. Twice.

Superhero death move idea: Survived, But Changed When the character reappears after an apparent death, the player must permanently vault a total number of "levels" of Domain Cards equal to their character level and replace them with an equal number of levels, and explain how they have transformed.

As my OP should have made clear, I was asking from a personal perspective.

This underscores an important point: the difference between "fun" and "necessary." I believe that Shadowdark is complete in the core rulebook. That absolutely does not mean I did not back Western Reaches at a high level.

This analogy suggests that core-only is simply not playable (no food) and I do not like that at all. In a perfect world, all RPGs would be complete with core only.

I think it is important to remember that SD expects players to beg advantage on things their race, class and background suggest they should be good at. Since there are no skills per se, those character elements are the skill system, with advantage serving as stand in for proficiency.