Kerr's work is a joy to read. Brimming with fun ideas that leap off the page and encourage creative problems solving for the players.

Jorphdan's rules walk a fine line of bringing the feel and tactics of 2e Spelljammer combat without getting bogged down in the overwrought mechanics of that edition.

There are so many good things to say about this title...

First of all, I'll admit, I haven't run Dungeon of the Mad Mage. A megadungeon felt really out of place within the framework of 5e so I often passed it over in favor of more narratively driven content. Here, with this book, I now totally want to run it!

The Old School Guide gives us a different way to approach the adventure, and in truth, 5e itself. It expertly recreates mechanics and incentive structures from B/X D&D. From XP for gold to followers, everything you would need to twist 5e into a B/X style game is here. Most notably for me is the Open Table section, which allows for a West Marches style game. This is helpful in itself but there was also obvious weaving of that mechanic into the others. Giving players several reasons to favor this style of play apart from the difficulty of scheduling.

Also very noteworthy is the D&D Lite section, which when combined with some cited rules from the DMG, create an altogether new and singularly impressive game! As someone who just bought the 3rd edition of White Hack I found these familiar and more accessible. Frankly, D&D Lite is worth the price of admission and could (read should) be used outside of Dungeon of the Mad Mage. It seems like a great way to tempt 5e players (especially those who like to focus on RP or creative problem solving) into the OSR.

Finally, the layout and fonts are all straight out of Moldvay and Cooks 1981 texts. The art is original but feels as if it could have filled those long ago published pages. I love this nostalgic silliness! (Though, I am somewhat biased as I greatly dislike the 5e layout design, so take that as you will)

Overall, you should pay money for this. It's clear a great deal of design thought has been put into it and that alone deserves to be supported.

This has some really fun ideas in it. I especially like the companions, mostly for the running fridge joke. :P

Amazing. The layout and wording is the same great stuff we saw in B/X Essentials but with the EXTREMELY helpful addition of Ascending AC rules and some cool new art. If you play B/X you should be using this book. Can't wait to get the individual physical copies to pass around the game table. Also that alternative cover art is radical!

Really great take on the Artificer! Very well written with concise and easy to understand language as well as some great flavor. Also very cool spell list choices. I think the Alchemist and Saboteur Specializations feel dwarfed by how many options you have with the Homonculist but they seem no less effective. This is a high quality product, especially for the PWYW tier.

This is a really cool little doc! A lot of these spells play with action economy in interesting ways, allowing your ranger and their animal companion to take advantage of specific combat situations. These feel both effective and flavorful while not seeming to add too much power to the equation. Most importantly they give you a much larger variety of ways to use companion. Given the price point and the ease of integration (given the documents length), there is no reason not to grab this.

I was really taken by how amazing this documents cover is, but I'm glad the content within matches. This is a useful supplement for adding NPCs to DotMM. The Mages are interesting and well fleshed out, yet the writing is also tight and succinct. There are good dungeon maps for each mage's lair as well as the minions you'll encounter there. My only issue is that with the lair maps I assume there would be more writing on encounters and traps within but no such luck. So this is a great framework for me to make additions to Undermountain with, but not something I would run "out of the box". Overall, check this out, the characters really jump off the page and it's only $1!

Wow this is great! Okay maybe not for the dungeon. The dungeon is fine...but thematically doesn't have much to do with ToA. Also I altered a section at the end that involves fighting a weakened (but still very powerful) enemy. I really didn't want to accidentally TPK my party on the first session of a new campaign. That said, the brilliance of this book is the system for creating a shared relative. It worked wonders with my group of (mostly) new players. It brought them together, made them gell as a team, and gave them a fantastic reason to want to end the death curse. They loved it. I loved it. It was the PERFECT way to start Tomb of Annihilation in terms of party interaction. Thank you James Introcaso for this amazing idea!

This is a really fun little rules supplement! The Sandfolk race is well balanced and very fleshed out conceptually. If you're a fan of the Experience Points web series this is totally worth picking up.

This is a useful tool for running Tomb of Annihilation with some cool ideas in it. However, I feel it falls a bit short on some of the encounters. While ideas like The Most Dangerous Game not only fit great in Chult but can easily be expanded into multiple sessions, many feel out of place or just provide very little play time. I think this inconsistency comes primarily from different authors writing different sections. It's not to say that any of this book is bad, but considering the price point I would have wanted a little more content. I only used about half of what was presented in here when I ran ToA for the reasons stated above and I admit a lot of that comes down to personal preference. I just wanted to love everything in here but only loved some of it. Overall I'm torn as to whether I would recommend it. If you love running games in Chult it's likely worth the money. This is Guild Adept content and that shows. However, if you're just running ToA and don't intend to use the setting outside of that you may want to skip this particular title.

Always fun to see a new Luke Monroe release. He always puts really silly and fun ideas in his stuff. Now there isn't much in here...but its free so what do you want? This is two really cool ideas and a character created around the idea of playing rock music in your D&D game. I love the flavor text in this doc, mostly because it's from a muscle wizard...sorry THE Muscle Wizard of Waterdeep. My only problem is some of the formatting looks a little weird and the character sheet at the end looks a bit odd in that font, but that's pretty nitpicky.

This has some really fun ideas in it that I can't wait to play around with. The Warlock stuff is especially good and super flavorful. Plus anything that gives that class spell storage sounds great! My only issue with this is that it's too dang short. Not that the price isn't appropriate but I feel like we're just skimming the surface of what one could do thematically with masks.

This is a delightful little document! The formatting is basic but effective, making use of a font we don't normally see. More importantly this is all landscape formatted, which makes it way easier to read on electronic devices. The spells are really fun! There are some super cool ideas in here, like probability control and creating a little minion out of astral goo. What really pulls it together though, are the anecdotes about each of the spells. Reading this makes me want to check out an adventure from this author. They write flavor really well.

This adventure rocks my socks.

If you're looking for a pulpy, gorey, almost-everybody-dies type adventure. Look no further. Sailors on the Starless Sea makes use of DCC intriguing "character funnel" by making your players the angry mob out to rescue their captured townsfolk from the forboding castle.

I have a bunch of friends who are horror nerds and this game really appealed to them. The crazy 70s pulp vibe bleeds through with Kovacs' art and Stroh's flavor text here. Each encounter is more like a fantasy grindhouse movie than the last.

I'm definitely going to check out more of Stroh's stuff for DCC.