Recent content by SteveC

That's the big question. I know I've done it both ways and I like how they are dropping three episodes at a time. And the first one at least had a lot of content, so I didn't feel like I didn't get much for it. I remember watching Ted Lasso after the first two seasons dropped. I watched them in...

Having now watched the first episode, I'm going to watch the entire series as fast as it comes out. Really good stuff.

Thanks for posting about this. I’m putting it on my watch list for the weekend. I have really high hopes for this.

I expect that the people in this thread have heard of it, but if not, I suggest looking at the Arcane Library for adventures that are easy to run and well laid out. If you're willing to look at more narrative games, the adventure/sourcebook for Grimwild is very different that the norm for...

What an interesting question! I am thinking it was Tunnels and Trolls, which came out in 1975 and I remember playing it very young. But I also remember that my library got a copy of Traveller, which came out in 1978. I think it was T&T but it gets back into the mists of time. Both games came...

I was talking with one of my friends that I ran the Quickstart adventure for at Gamehole Con and one of the surprising things they told me they liked was the foldable terrain and minis. The quickstart has some trees, rocks, and a wagon you are traveling in, in addition to all of the monsters and...

I admit I have limited experience with it at high level but I think some of the designs are off. We are playing 5.0 so I don't know if it's been addressed in 5.5. I have been a little surprised at how it has not been as lethal as I would have expected. I don't know if this was a deliberate...

I think you may need to tweak some game elements to get there. In the Vecna campaign, we did a combat where the entire group was poisoned (so all attacks at Disadvantage). I took the time to get rid of that on my character (and I asked the other players who to cast it on, no one else wanted it!)...

Totally. There is some discussion of making a "cozy" version of D&D. For me, I see a lot of that already in the game. Just as an example. In Shackled City we did a battle with a Dracolich. We prepared and buffed extensively for the encounter. One of the players made a bad choice for his...

I know this is going to sound strange considering how grumbly I can be about 5E (and moreso about 5.5E) but we haven't had much trouble. We were playing the Shackled City AP and converted from 3.5E to 5 after a near TPK and the game ran much better. Our other campaign is in the Vecna adventure...

I absolutely get where you're coming from (and Bae'zel too) and agree with the Ignore feature in that case. What I was trying to do was explain where some of it comes from. I have a daughter with Autism, so I see some of the common ways it can manifest itself sometimes, and I think people should...

It's something I've thought about a lot. In general I take the perspective that anyone who presents something on a forum is just speaking their own opinion, unless they specifically say otherwise. It has helped me a lot. Now there are people on here who can speak to different issues with...

I think this is a really good point. What's also important is that gaming has quite a number of neurodivergent folks (trust me, I gamed in the 70s and we didn't know what to call it then), so there can be issues where someone might completely innocently not understand how what they are saying...

The Background system was one of the things that really put me off of 5.5E. You went from a "choose a Background that reflects fun roleplay details" to "pick an option from a small list of applicable ones for your character that give you a powerful benefit, but make that background not...

I played a ton of it back in the day and loved it, right until you got to higher levels (say 13+) where I hated it. There is nothing you could do to get me to play high level 3E again. But low to medium levels? Definitely!