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Ending the long hiatus to talk about Kalakeri.  Kalakeri is a Domain of Dread of the 2021 Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft book.  It was created by Ajit George and is an update or a spiritual successor to the 2e domain of Sri Raji.  I am just finishing one campaign arc set in Kalakeri and…

I have finished the Expanse novels. I started reading the series in the fall of 2019.  The 8th book, Tiamat’s Wrath, was released in January 2020.  Going by my tweets I tore through the first three books in about a month and a half during the busiest season of the year for me.  I fell…

….. This issue is…frustrating. We ended the first issue with the Qunari planning to break into Castellum Tenebris.  Protagonist Crew is trying to prevent the Bad Guys from doing their ritual.  The Bad Guys are trying to do their ritual. We end this issue with the Qunari just barely breaking into the fortress and the…

WARNING.  THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD.     There actually isn’t that much to spoil in Dark Fortress, issue number 1.  This is part 1 of 3 comics in this series and it feels like a part 1.  There isn’t much plot that happens and there’s very little in the way of new lore.   But there…

After a long hiatus I returned to my formerly in-person group for Curse of Strahd.  Very fun, having a great time playing my tortured former wereraven ranger.  It really is the best of the 5e hardcovers to date. I’d play it again, I would for sure DM it again.  But all good things come to…

Queercoded is a new product on the DM’s Guild by Oliver Darkshire.  It costs $9.95 and as of this writing is the #1 product there.  I had no idea what this was going to be.  Slash fic with Jarlaxle?  Heartwarming romance with Tiamat?  An art book?  I liked the author’s other work on the DM’s…

Curse of Strahd is one of my fondest D&D memories. Who am I kidding, it’s my favorite.  But that was also years ago.  It’s seductive to drink from the fountain of “Remember When?”  So I felt a nice little nostalgia jolt when our Curse of Strahd DM needed a break and I got to run…

When I heard “urban heist adventure” I was signed the hell up.  Now Dragon Heist is over.  I played it and now I have read it. I wanted to like this adventure.  After playing it I came in with a hostile bias. I found it a parade of NPCs handing you things and not enough…

At long last a day is here.  They announced the next D&D Hardcover Adventure, you ask?  NO YOU FOOL.  Faces of Thedas, the next (Last? Only?) splatbook for Green Ronin’s Dragon Age RPG has arrived.  At least in PDF form.  Still gotta wait a bit for the dead tree edition. For those interested in the…

The chill in the air means only one thing.  No, not our inevitable deaths, although they seem a bit more inevitable this year.  No, this is once again time for a Wizards of the Coast Hardcover D&D adventure.  Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, is an adventure set in the far north of the Forgotten…