To build off this, moneys tight for a lot of GMs and stuff like foundry removes the need for buying, assembling and painting terrain and miniatures. Which saves on time and money.

I honestly hate raking, and I love the sounds of autumn. Unfortunately I’m surrounded by retirees whose sole form of purpose is lawn care and they just call my landlord to force me to do it cuz it’s “bad for the grass” or some other dumb shit.

No problem! It’s actually handy for learning dungeons and stuff cuz you can watch the NPCs who rarely mess up their positioning.

You can actually. FF14 let’s you run “trusts” which are just dungeons where your party is a bunch of NPC bots drawn from the story’s roster.

The only thing you can’t do it for iirc is the end game raids, but those are generally not connected to the main story very directly.

What if it’s both?

As I mentioned in another comment, but elaborating further here, there’s a Savage World’s setting that revolves around eldritch horror and rampant corporate industry called Holler.

I loved that novel.

There’s unironically a bunch of Appalachian cosmic horror stuff out there. In fact iirc Savage Worlds has a setting for it called Holler and Monte Cook games published a ttrpg for the Old Gods of Appalachia podcast.

Outs of sheer curiosity where do they go after that particular death? Oblivion?

There’s no way the Ice castle of the necrolord and the mountains of muscle aren’t a Fire &Ice reference

Those are sick, where’d you get the stands?

Oh I’m not. I don’t even play 5e anymore unless someone else is running it. I moved my setting and campaigns to Savage Worlds.

I did so because I don’t like that WotC sells me books that are half baked and claims it’s up to GM to write the content they paid for.

Also the entire debacle the other year with the OGL.

Idk. I kinda of expect that when I buy something that all the information I would need would be present. But, I guess if you like having some of the information only, then it makes sense there’s no rules for sailing space ships in the space sailing book. Especially since they charge you the same for modules with half the information in them as modules that have all the information in them.

Really d&d 5e is a mid system from an increasingly mid company.

Honestly, I wanted to like the og one, but I’m so burnt out on games using the same three pantheons when there’s a genuine trove of them out there.

I hope it does well and maybe they can do more than the same three, especially considering the one dlc it got wasn’t what I’d call good either, but at least it was different.

My group’s done Oceans, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Arkham Horror LCG, Eldritch Horror, that dungeon boss card game, The Inis, So You’ve Been Eaten, and they’ve all been pretty good. Especially if automated.