So you’ve been playing and enjoying Level Up Advanced DnD 5e? Because I’ve been very curious about it, but haven’t seen any review by anyone who’s actually tried out the changes and played the game. I’d love your thoughts if you’ve actually been using it.

I kind of agree. I feel like it’s an evolution of the medium stemming from more new DM advice being a big focus and set pieces, which I think are awesome and can lead to fun memorable stories. These high trust adventure design he mentions I do like as well, but I have to admit that they can be intimidating. It’s generally how I’ve seen Chronicles of Darkness adventures written, and they’re kind of intimidating, especially when I was a new GM, because they rely on more improvisation and storytelling ability than a new GM might have accumulated.

Modern adventures, which describe more paths and possible consequences, branches, and options explicitly, I think give more support to newbies. While it’s true we didn’t have that scaffolding decades ago, I don’t think making games more approachable is necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it’s great, our hobby has never been more popular.

On the other hand, I’m probably going to write my next adventure in a more HTT style now that I have all these ideas rolling around in my head lol. I actually liked this article and the way the terminology made me think deeper about some things.

I backed MCDM’s Flee, Mortals. While they can’t use Wizards monsters so there’s a lot of change in lore and names, it’s so good that I don’t think I’ll ever need a Wizards updated MM.

That forum is a gold mine. Didn’t know there was a whole community around it already. Thanks for the insights!

It’s been done in other countries to great effect. The UK had a great public housing system and no one would say that was some horrible dictatorship. The only cost was the normal amount of taxes they pay. It’s slowly been a bit privatized form what I understand, but provided housing for a majority of the population without complaint for hundreds of years,and still provides for a large part of the population. They even built ones that look pretty nice and not like the public housing people imagine in like Soviet Russia.

It’s definitely grown on me lol.

That happens in private apartments, too. My old landlord left a huge hole in the wall for almost a year. Others regularly ignore mold. My current one ignored water damage. It’s what landlords do.

That plight in the article, like many others, seems to be caused mostly from the steady but gradual defunding of the UK’s public services for to long time conservative and Tory control of the government.

 “The funding from the government to build new social homes is insufficient and so they have to rely on other income streams,” Rob says.

That’s basically what my partner and I do with Bob’s Burgers. I want to watch new things but I basically have to wait for days where she’s not there lol.

Maybe that’s the first test. See how much abuse you’ll put up with lol.

I still have to see Luca and Coco. I’ve heard good things about both but know way more people that have seen Coco than Luca. They did not advertise it very well or something.