@KashimTenshi@XNayolak@PureDiabloCom You always walk a fine line with callbacks like that, but I think Ormus was done very well. The biggest pop of the whole campaign for me was when I realized from the layout of the map that I was walking into the boss room in Durance of Hate.
@PureDiabloCom I think the new game modes and systems are the main feature, not the story, but they're really setting up the Greater Evils to be truly apocalyptic.
@TychoBrahe Mr. Beast lives in my town, has a partnership with my own employer, and I still never encounter his name except when someone I follow on the internet happens to mention it. The algorithm is like "You're how old? Nevermind then."
@Kathleen_LRR That stuff needs to be put in writing far more often in many more places. The hobby has expanded so rapidly in recent years that most players never had a chance to learn it all the hard way as feral basement teenagers like my generation did.
@TychoBrahe That's fair. Ironically, the previous edition of D&D was a lot more like WoW in some respects. I really admire much of what it did mechanically, but it was not particularly well received by the core audience.
@TychoBrahe I don't know. I think WoW and TTRPGs are as fundamentally different as two things can be that both contain wizards and hit points and the like. Doesn't mean they'll do a bad job, but that credential doesn't suggest anything to me for better or worse.