Anyone that has followed me for a while knows that certain aspects of the Forgotten Realms setting inspire a deep, nostalgic love within me. It’s not an exaggeration to say that Candlekeep is definitely one of those elements of the setting that remains dear to me. I love the concept of this wild mish mash of knowledge from all over
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This has taken me a while, but I finally wanted to circle back around to writing about my experience running Tales of the Old Margreve, and what I would do if I ever did it again. I touched on some of the points I’m going to touch on when I was posting my session by session posts, but it’s probably
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hasSadly, this review isn’t going to be quite as timely as I would have liked it to have been. I read through this and took notes at the beginning of the year, and in the press of different responsibilities, I never circled back around to finish up the formal review. Now I’m going to rectify that. Part of what intrigued
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I am a big fan of having lots of NPC stat blocks, especially in Dungeons and Dragons. While I don’t think they were executed as well as they could have been, I liked the concept that D&D 3.5 attempted with adding in different “monsters” with class levels in the Monster Manual 3 and 4, and I think one of the
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I had a chance to look through Mythic Odesseys of Theros the last couple of days. This isn’t a full review (and I’ve got away from doing a lot of official WOTC reviews, because they are ubiquitous, and from more talented people), but there is a lot I wanted to mention. This first impression is based on the material released
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I like orcs. I also like to challenge narratives. Not by completely denying previously established tropes, but by adding nuance and context to those tropes, and adding new aspects to what we have known before. In 5thedition I’ve played an orc wizard looking for ancient orc historical sites, an orc paladin of Baghtru, who was focused on protecting orcs rather
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For whatever reason, Dungeons and Dragons hasn’t quite spent as much time developing the hierarchy and politics of the fey courts as it has spent exploring the politics of the Nine Hells, the interaction between the layers of the Abyss, or even the mercenary tendencies of Gehenna. There have been products here and there, but not with the level of
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Before we begin, I would like to offer up a disclaimer. I’m going to mention various generations in broad terms. No broad definition fits everyone. Additionally, when discussing generational labels in American society, the closer you are to privilege, the more those generational definitions apply to you, because that’s the social group that gets the most scrutiny. So if you
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I’m pretty excited to see this. I loved the 3rd edition Green Ronin Book of Fiends, and the Fiendish Codex series (Hordes of the Abyss, Tyrants of the Nine Hells) were some of my favorite official 3.5 D&D books to see publication. Game On Tabletop: The Book of Fiends 5e When it comes to 5e material from Green Ronin, I
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Dungeons and Dragons is weird, because the magic used in the game is inspired by a lot of different sources. Dungeons and Dragons itself is its own genre, based on mixing and matching a ton of different elements of disparate bits of fantasy together. This is further complicated by the fact that even individual D&D settings have further defined exactly
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