Category Archives: 5e SRD

What Do I Know About First Impressions? Arcadia Issue 27 (5e SRD)

I’m pretty late to this party. I’m not sure if there is anything left to be said about Arcadia Issue 27, i.e. Sharkadia, that hasn’t already been said. But I’m going to try anyway. I mean, honestly, when it comes to reviewing content, I need to keep moving or feel like I’m going to die. Wait, isn’t that a trait

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Twilight Accord Playtest Subclasses Part 3 (5e SRD)

Let’s finish off our look at all of the subclasses currently available for playtest if you are a patron of Green Ronin’s Twilight Accord Patreon. This is a great project with a wonderful goal, so you should definitely back it, especially to get the context for some of these subclasses that lean more heavily into the setting background.  To round

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Twilight Accord Playtest Subclasses Part 2 (5e SRD)

We looked at four of the Twilight Accord subclasses last time around. Let’s climb back into these playtests and take a look at another four. As I said last time around, I’m not looking at these in release order, I’m looking at them in class order, since I gathered all of them into my own PDF for my personal reference.

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Twilight Accord Subclass Playtests Part 1 (5e SRD)

Once upon a time, I was going to start a series of articles looking at playtest material. This wasn’t like the playtest material that is all about redefining a game system for an updated release. This was the other kind of playtest. Like all those Unearthed Arcanas that we used to see for future product releases. New rule system. Subclasses

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Arcadia Issue 26 (5e SRD)

I’m a whole issue behind on looking at Arcadia, and since the magazine closes up shop in July, I don’t want to miss the chance to take a look at the individual issues. So even though we just saw the release of issue 27 a couple of weeks ago, let’s roll back the clock to those bygone days of about

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Core Fantasy Roleplaying Playtest Packet #3 (5e SRD)

Okay, time to get back to work, and by work, I mean, looking not only at games, but at potential games. And by potential games, I mean playtests. And by playtest, in this particular instance, I mean the third Tales of the Valiant playtest packet, which is all about monsters this time around. I was a little surprised to see

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What Do I Know About Reviews? Fables: Agents Of The Empire Part 5, Trace of Deception (5e SRD)

Where has this month gone? We’re almost to May, and I’ve still got a few things to look at from way back at the beginning of the month. Before the next installment is upon us in a few days, let’s take a look at the most recent adventure in the Fables campaign Agents of the Empire, Trace of Deception. This

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How Many Versions of “D&D 5X” Are On The Way?

I wanted to pull together some information on all the different versions of D&D 5e that are currently in production. And by D&D 5e, I mean, obviously, games that use the 5e OGL as their basis, since nobody but WotC gets to put out an “official” version of the game. In the process of pulling this together, hoo goodness, has

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