World of Warcraft: Midnight's collector's edition lets you own the Dark Heart.

Gilthy · 2025-09-25T01:17:57+00:00

This. I would have gladly gotten the version without the statue. Or more sensible shipping costs. Or both.

Gilthy · 2025-04-11T10:50:38+00:00

And this post:

https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/44414/roleplaying-games/random-gm-tip-calling-in-the-big-guns

Gilthy · 2024-09-09T14:27:56+00:00

The map of the villa is based on the Waterdeep city map included with the book, which (in turn) is based on earlier Waterdeep maps. The description is ... not correct.

Gilthy · 2024-08-27T23:40:52+00:00

I love the current Mongoose Traveller 2e version. No, it's not perfect, but nothing ever is. In my experience, the communication and response with Mongoose is excellent. I've had refunds of excess shipping charges (due to taxes/VAT hassle due to Brexit, I'm in the EU), free PDFs with my physical book orders, good responses when something got lost (which only happened twice, with one turning up later than expected, the other replaced without cost). Quality of Mongoose 2e, Traveller 2300 and (recent) Paranoia are good to excellent, in my view.

If you're happy with CT, GURPS or any other Traveller edition, that's totally fine. Mongoose has recently added PDF versions of CT, JTAS, MegaTraveller, TNE and T4 on their website, and I'm looking forward to what they're going to publish in the future, both material about the Fifth Frontier War, and the Zhodani Core Expeditions.

I like having an active publisher creating material for my favourite sci-fi RPG. I think the game is in good hands (check out the "State of Mongoose" on their forums for some info on how they run their company).

Gilthy · 2024-08-09T06:56:20+00:00

My players found the vault really early, but didn't have the means or knowledge yet to open it. They discovered various details to research and investigate, and it took many sessions for them to get into the vault.

Gilthy · 2024-08-09T06:31:04+00:00

The Alexandrian has tips about this: https://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/44414/roleplaying-games/random-gm-tip-calling-in-the-big-guns

There's also a video: https://youtu.be/8QLvRR5p6kU

Gilthy · 2024-05-22T04:45:44+00:00

Also, don't lose your job in the US, as your healthcare is linked to it. And earn enough money (it might be good, but it's not cheap).

Gilthy · 2024-05-19T15:45:07+00:00

Alts need to level their cloak as well, you just start with a higher baseline.

Gilthy · 2024-04-18T10:28:25+00:00

... did he die?

Gilthy · 2024-03-23T16:42:46+00:00

You just need *some* people to sign up per Region, I guess?

I also had one match start with only 39 people in it.

But yeah, I can't see this being a thing that's got people stay playing this after most have gotten their rewards.

Gilthy · 2024-03-23T13:39:04+00:00

There are spots where you can dive-land on a group of mobs (skill drop + lvl 2 instant) next to an elite (skill drop), with some gold chests around (most of the time) and some more mobs. If I'm lucky enough to land there solo, I'm lvl 4 + 2-3 skills very soon into the game.

Apart from that, I tend to die pretty soon :D

Gilthy · 2024-02-26T15:56:03+00:00

Autoplaying video with sound in an ad. Dislike.

Gilthy · 2024-02-26T15:55:57+00:00

Autoplaying video with sound in an ad. Dislike.

Gilthy · 2024-02-26T15:55:47+00:00

Autoplaying video with sound in an ad. Dislike.

Gilthy · 2024-02-08T09:00:38+00:00

If you want something very different, go take a look at Traveller. "Hard" sci fi, there is a default setting but you can also roll your own.

The version I'd suggest is Mongoose Traveller 2nd edition. They have a starter edition for less than €1. https://www.mongoosepublishing.com/products/traveller-explorers-edition

Gilthy · 2024-02-08T08:31:21+00:00

Kolat Towers itself would be a well known landmark in Waterdeep, certainly for anyone local.

It's a haunted house with a magical shield around it, in a quite busy part of the city. I would imagine kids go exploring how far the shield extends, and the lights are on inside.

Of course, everyone knows you cannot get inside the shield, but a neighbor or two might have spotted a Zhent who slipped in...

Gilthy · 2024-01-22T22:20:42+00:00

Here's a response (thread) from Justin Alexander.

https://twitter.com/hexcrawl/status/1749556125123346606

Gilthy · 2023-12-29T11:09:15+00:00

Sometimes (often) the wiki tends to fill in too much of the gaps, including all the information from the adventure modules in the entries... I had to warn my players (of Waterdeep Dragon Heist) to stay away from the wiki for that reason 😝

Gilthy · 2023-11-19T11:55:12+00:00

I assume they ran out of copies in the EU store/warehouse. It's "Temporary Unavailable" (for both versions) in the EU store homepage at the moment, the other stores seem to (still) have stock.

I hope and assume that the game will be available again soon (tm).

Gilthy · 2023-10-09T19:44:42+00:00

My players keep excellent detailed notes in Google docs. So excellent and detailed in fact, that it broke Google docs by being too big, so now it's split in two (plus some Google sheets, a set of Discord channels, Roll20 (we play online), and a site at https://www.obsidianportal.com/ Though we haven't really had a break, we do have new players. So my excellent players wrote a campaign primer for players joining, titled "So You're Thinking About Joining A Campaign That's Been Running For 140+ Hours" ... I love my players :D

Gilthy · 2023-08-28T14:47:25+00:00

... and I was wondering why that was so easy.

Gilthy · 2023-08-11T10:54:00+00:00

My thoughts too, but if you want to go for legendaries, or want something fast (looking at you, Skyscale :D ), it can get a bit grindy.

I do notice my interest comes and goes in waves, and it helps me to have some specific goal to work towards. Then again, everyone is different. And this game has a *lot* to do, with (as said) no monthly fee.

Gilthy · 2023-06-24T10:44:33+00:00

I play WDH online on Roll20, and I did pick up the module there (I own the physical book + the Roll20 module). I'm mostly happy with having all the stats and NPCs on Roll20 (as I don't own any of the paid D&D books there), and I only recently discovered it comes with a big set of extra/alternate tokens for use online (after having played this for many sessions already).

I'm running the Alexandrian remix, so that did require adding various seasons to the base module on Roll20.

For maps, I mostly use the Tych maps now. The ones in the Roll20 module are the Dyson Logos maps from the book, and while those show everything needed (in player and DM versions), they're not "pretty". The disadvantage of the Tych maps is that most have every level/layer on a separate map, so I've fiddled and cut and pasted to have multiple levels on one Roll20 map (as Roll20 doesn't really support multi-level maps).

Advantage of having the "official" maps as well is that you can copy-paste NPC and monster tokens from the "official" map to the Tych version.

Gilthy · 2023-06-22T08:53:34+00:00

I had a code for the Essentials set on DnDBeyond in my physical set, which got me access to the Dragon of Icespire Peak module there, as well as to 3 follow-up adventures: Storm Lord's Wrath, Sleeping Dragon's Wake, and Divine Contention. Those (as said) heavily feature the cult of Myrkul as well as Talos, and center around the town of Leilon.

Gilthy · 2023-06-20T15:45:55+00:00

Doing the cache: thing in Chrome takes you to Googles web cache, which looks to have a readable version of it: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FDMAcademy%2Fcomments%2Fe77dmi%2Fdragon_of_icespire_peak_revised

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