5e - why you think it sucks, and why you're wrong

Beoric

8, 8, I forget what is for
I'm reading it to my kids right now, dude. It is fucking radical. SO much stuff I didn't pay attention to when I read this (three times!) as a kid.

The use of the word Dungeon to describe the realm of the goblins was a big one. But yeah, just one D&D trope after another. I don't know how I could have thought Melnibone, Nehwon, and Cimmeria were the central driving forces for the game design. I'm still trying to puzzle out the parallels to WWI in the Battle of Five Armies, though.
I don't think the battle itself is WW1 style. But, for instance, Bret Deveraux thinks that Tolkien had a good understanding of sieges, logistics, and IIRC, leadership, command, communications, etc.
 

The Heretic

Should be playing D&D instead
I'm reading it to my kids right now, dude. It is fucking radical. SO much stuff I didn't pay attention to when I read this (three times!) as a kid.
I made a LotR reference at work yesterday and one of my newer co-workers gave me a blank look.
"It's from Lord of the Rings."
"Oh, I tried to watch it because it seemed like it was something I would like, but I couldn't get into it. I tried reading the Hobbit and it was boring."

She should've had the Hobbit read to her as a kid. :D

The Heretic
 

The1True

My my my, we just loooove to hear ourselves don't we?
I've been working on my new sword-and-sorcery series for Baen.
Alright man, I've got it downloaded! I'm hitting this as soon as I've finished slumming it in the candy-coated crack that is the Murderbot Diaries...
It looks exactly like my kind of jam. Which makes me wonder yet again about how shitty the Amazon recommendation algorithm is.
 
Alright man, I've got it downloaded! I'm hitting this as soon as I've finished slumming it in the candy-coated crack that is the Murderbot Diaries...
It looks exactly like my kind of jam. Which makes me wonder yet again about how shitty the Amazon recommendation algorithm is.
Hey, thanks, man. I hope you enjoy it.
As far as that algorithm, Amazon remains confusing and frustrating to me and so many writers...
Murderbot is excellent and is hard to stop reading. And as it happens, Martha Wells was kind enough to blurb the new series for me, before I had even landed the book deal. If you scroll through the recs for mine I'm sure Baen used what she said in the puffery somewhere. Not only is she talented, she's a very kind lady. It's nice to see success happening to good people.

(Oh, and I DM'd you about hex crawl resources. I just saw that Kobold Press is coming out with one. So far I'm most enamored with the ones from Red Tide and Worlds Without Number and Richard Leblanc. I should probably check out Conley's as well. Not sure if it's in print yet.)
 
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