You bet!

I completely understand where you're coming from. ~ Jeff

Did you seriously just imply that good game designers are all white and being eschewed in favour of bad game designers, who aren't white, because they aren't white? Rhetorical question.

Yet you don't design adventures where the actual resolution is going to determine if you're playing D&D tonight or not.

On the flip side, there's the camp which believes dice rolls are always to be taken at face value and if you're going to fudge results then why roll dice in the first place? I know a lot of people who are like that.

I can see that viewpoint, and most of the time I do just not make them roll in those situations.

I'm pretty tight with Free League so I believe I should be checking that out when it hits. ~ Jeff

What's a good alternative then? I'm getting into DND (bought a shitload of books) and would like to know a good one that doesn't get super bogged down in wordy text or lore.

@@michaelbrennan9156 in my experience you will likely get one or the other. I think Modiphius has a unique thing going mechanically and is very light on rules. The trade off will be the lore though, tons of it. I personally like that. Jeff recently reviews index card rpg so that might be up your ally or even a Savage Worlds setting.

@@michaelbrennan9156 Try Goblisstones The Chapel on the Cliffs as a good short example. A good example of a good location and my players really enjoyed it.

@@michaelbrennan9156 Going to be very honest with you: A lot of 5e adventures suck. Too many aspiring novelists who have little interest in the technical writing needed to create something to be played at the table. Here are two publishers of 5e adventures that are good, though: Dungeon Age and Arcane Library. It is also no accident that both of them are very schooled in Old School Renaissance/Revival/Revolution adventure design theory and read Bryce Lynch's Ten Foot Pool review blog (which is where I first heard of them). In fact, you could worse than using the "The Best" and "5e" filters on that blog to find good modules.

Weird self-reporting flex, the 80s, but okay.

@@RosscoAW the content of the book is overshadowed by the minority status of the writers. If that is all it has to offer, and be less exciting than Palace of the Silver Princess, we have a new floor in gaming culture.

@@RosscoAW the content of the book is overshadowed by the minority status of the writers. If that is all it has to offer, and be less exciting than Palace of the Silver Princess, we have a new floor in gaming culture.

you chose to get butt hurt over nothing

They're not butthurt, it's everybody stuck in the 80s, wanting to go back to a time when it was okay to objectify and treat others however you wanted without recourse or expectation of being held accountable. Sucks to suck, you will be held accountable.

Indeed. This was their marketing choice from Day 1, and now people cry about it and imply those pushing back against this are racists.

Yes, this is total woke, racist trash. WOTC has destroyed D&D.

You read it? I want to know if its bad

@@AsboXFlemzo It's bad if you don't like wokeness.

Can you provide some examples from the book? Or is this just based on the (stupid) marketing by WoTC?

Could you elaborate with something more specific than just "woke-disney-star-wars-gummi-bears-fan-fiction-BS?" I'm interested in hearing your thoughts.

Amen, brother.

You're welcome to time travel back to the (18)80s where your perspective is welcome and valid. Otherwise, get with the program. You will be held accountable for your racism, and you will be expected to act accordingly. Welcome to the 21st century (barely).

No child, what will ultimately happen is that your slavish Devotion to a fascist ideology that encourages bullying people who don't believe as you do, doxing people online for daring to have ever had a contradictory opinion to yours, and actively embraces other long standing Mauist intimidation techniques... all while believing you're actually on the right side of history... will come to an end when people see it for what it is. Corporations have exactly zero interest in the betterment of race relations, what they care about is profit. They make grand gestures to sell their current trend to the easily duped. Not for any real ideological or moral purpose, but to get on board with the way the currently fashionanle 15 minutes is trending. Right now it is woke culture. Fortunately, for those of us that were never asleep, we see this for the money grabbing sham that it actually is. So far as it pertains to gaming the people that are screaming racism are the ones who see race in everything.. remember the whole "Orcs are black people " crap from a few years ago? Well, being is I can't think of a single person I've ever played tabletop with that shared that opinion, I can only assume the people that were whining about it actually saw Orcs as comparable to African americans. And in their misguided attempt at virtue signaling, decided they needed to blather all over the message boards to "Enlighten" the rest of us. What complete and total impressionable (and dare I say racist in their own dim way) frigging Idiots. IF human beings could ever get past the notion that the color of our skin matters in the slightest, and that we are all a single species that share a space ... well I'd be the first to sign up for that, as we would be so much better off when all we see is a person's actual characte,, rather than the superficial differences between skin pigment and the baggage we seem to drag around pertaining to what that supposed difference gives people the right to do or not to do. I am not the sum of my ancestors accomplishments, any more than I am responsible for what other overzealous idiots believe that fans the flames of racism by insisting that race is THE be all division that we need to categorize everyone by. I don't buy it. And while I'm at it, the single best part of this purely egocentric display on your part, where you presume to know thing one in any way shape or form, is that my first gaming group (in the 1980s) had two girls, one Asian three white guys ( one of whom was pretty openly gay) and gasp ... the entire African-American population of my high school which was a brother and a sister . Yep, There we were... apparently horribly racist kids ...living in the horribly racist1980s... in the middle of a racially, and gender integrated gaming group. And nobody gave it a second thought, because it wasn't an issue. We all loved the game we were playing and we wanted as many friends who enjoyed it in the same way to play it with us. Color , gender Which is exactly the way I feel about it now. As I said; never was asleep.

@@RosscoAW Less "Welcome" and more "Get your head in the game and we'll stop making fun of you."

You wrote out a bunch fo but said very little of substance, just a bunch of assertions you have no real proof for, just a desire to justify. Sad.

Hey, could you tell me which adventure is based on Philippine mythology?

@@juliamedina3322 Between Tangled Roots, pg. 134, the adventure for level 10 characters.

@@irvenman Thank you! I have a player at my table who has Philippine roots and I know they'll love this. But I didn't want to just be like "Just read the whole book until you recognize something" because they don't have much free time. So this is perfect. Thanks again!

@@juliamedina3322 No problem. If you haven't checked it out yet, I highly recommend The Islands of Sina Una by Hit Point Press if you want more Philippine mythology inspired D&D 5e material. Pam Punzalan, the writer of the adventure in the Radiant Citadel, contributed to it as well and the adventure plays well in the Sina Una setting. Dayawlongon can be the name of the unnamed archipelago in The Islands of Sina Una and Lambakluha could be one of the many islands that populated that world.

@@irvenman That sounds amazing! Thank you! I'll definitely look into it.

Every review I have seen has mentioned that this book is written entirely by POC. TGG mentions it once at the beginning and says not to get bent out of shape about that fact. Jeff then goes on to review the book only on its merits and playability. If you believe the writing is racist; don't buy the book and Tweet WotC to let them know. From watching their videos, I can say TGG does not support racism. Peace out and have the day you deserve.

Whites are becoming a minority in usa so yes its racism now.

I think you are being a bit silly here to say Jeff is supporting racism. He reviewed the books on its merits, and set aside the (imho stupid) marketing put out by WoTC. Sadly WoTC have fallen in to a trap of their own making.

So, for the sake of clarification, I'd follow up with three questions; one for each sentence. 1. Does not addressing a specific concern about the material constitute a "nonsense review?" If I'm reading you correctly, I think you'd agree that there's more to a book than the race of its authors. What's actually written seems far more important than who wrote it. 2. Why do you think this is the case? If a publisher releases a book exclusively with a set of essays written by, for example, South Asian authors, does that constitute racism? If a publisher releases an anthology of American literature written only by persons of color, does that constitute racism? If you think the choice of authorship for the adventures in Journeys Through The Radiant Citadel constutites racism, a fortiori it would seem you should think the choice of authorship for the two anthologies I mentioned also constitute racism since it would literally be on the cover. 3. Given how polemical that statement is, do you think it might have been more appropriate to contact Jeff first? That's a pretty serious charge. Of course you might have done this already, but if you didn't that seems like an error in judgement. Have you shared your concerns with the publisher, Wizards of the Coast? If not, I'd suggest that's more effective than approaching a single reviewer. I look forward to hearing from you and I hope you have a great day!

It's absolutley no skin off my ass if you dislike the review; that's your prerogative, but I think it's pretty obvious who has a problem of racism/defending racism between the two of us. By your point, I suppose a book written exclusively by women must be sexist, regardless of its content. ~ Jeff