Category Archives: What Do I Know About First Impressions

What Do I Know About First Impressions? Project Black Flag Playtest Packet #2, Part One

There is a lot of playtesting going on these days. Not only is there a lot of playtesting, across multiple games, doing similar things in different ways, but a lot of this design has my head spinning and wanting to do a deeper dive into why some of this design is trending. That means it takes me a little bit

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Unearthed Arcana 2023 Player’s Handbook: Druid & Paladin, Part One

Yes, I’m lagging behind with this First Impression of the most recent Unearthed Arcana in the One D&D Playtest. Not only did I get busy breaking down the individual chapters in Keys from the Golden Vault, but it was also a bit of a challenge getting back in the swing of One D&D after the January of Broken Dreams. Plus,

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Arcadia Issue 25 (5e SRD)

How is it almost the end of February (time of this blog post)? While I’ve been busy looking through all of the heists in Keys from the Golden Vault, another issue of Arcadia has crept up on me. I’m going to try not to think about how these issues are now kind of a countdown to the end of the

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Arcadia Issue 24 Review (5e OGL)

I didn’t manage to take a look at this issue the week it was released, because the release got pushed back, and let’s face it, even if it wasn’t, January was a mess, so let’s just call it a wash. In the intervening time since we last looked at an issue of Arcadia, there was some . . . drama

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Arcadia Issue 23 (5e OGL)

The veil of night draws close to the world. The howling cold winds blow over the plains, and the threat of deep snows loom over holiday plans. What better time to completely retreat into fantasy and ignore the real world. Let’s take a look at Arcadia Issue 23 from MCDM.DisclaimerI received a review copy of this issue, and I have

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Unearthed Arcana 2022: The Cleric and Revised Species (D&D 5e)

That last One D&D Playtest took a lot out of me. Three pages, two podcast episodes, and a whole lot of online analysis. This time around, things are going to be easier to digest. The third One D&D Unearthed Arcana is primarily looking at three species, one class, one subclass, and a few changes in the Rules Glossary. What’s Up

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen (D&D 5e), Part Six

Chapter 7: Siege of Kalaman This is the final “adventure” chapter of the book. This can be a little confusing, because this isn’t the Siege of Kalaman as described in the Dragonlance Chronicles, but an earlier point in the War of the Lance. “A” Siege. What’s Up Essentially, the PCs need to be able to infiltrate a location, but while

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Shadow of the Dragon Queen (D&D 5e), Part Five

Shadow of the Dragon Queen Chapter 6: City of Lost Names The opening section of this chapter, leading to the location that the PCs have been trying to find, is another of those callbacks that reminds me a bit of the original adventure and the Sla-Mori, the hidden path into Pax Tharkas. There are four locations in this section, with

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