Star Trek has been consistently calming my nerves in several ways over the last six or so months. I love the optimism of the franchise, and even at its most grim, it’s often more positive about the future than many other properties. Rewatching Star Trek The Next Generation and Star Trek Deep Space Nine have been great for my nerves,
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I’m going to try to be brief with this review, not because the product doesn’t deserve a deep dive, but because I feel a little strange writing a review longer than the product that I’m looking at. What I am looking at today is the Dungeon Masters Guild product Chilled Secrets. Chilled Secrets is a product similar to Chultan Death
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When finishing up my read through of Elminster’s Candlekeep Compendium, I just happened to see another product that piqued my interest almost as much. That product has many of the same contributors, this one being Darkhold: Secrets of the Zhentarim. Going way back to some of my earliest Forgotten Realms memories, I’ve loved Manshoon as a villain. I’m not sure
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Watching The Mandalorian has made me revisit some of my thoughts and feelings about Star Wars, and maybe come up with a more succinct and less wide ranging critique of why I really didn’t like The Rise of Skywalker. I haven’t wanted to fight this fight when it comes up, because people I like and respect enjoyed The Rise of
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I’m moved to write about factions and how they have developed and shaped various d20 fantasy settings over the years. Now, here’s the trick . . . this is largely filtered through my own lens. That means the order in which I have encountered these things, and the degree to which I have taken them to heart, is largely shaped
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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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