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I'm currently playing a young halfling who made friends with an elderly widow in her neighbourhood. When the old lady died, she left most of her property to my PC - including a Ring of Wishes with one charge remaining, but which was tied to a particularly vindictive dao who liked messing with...

Mix together some of the old Al-Qadim boxed adventures. Any/all of Ruined Kingdoms, Assassin Mountain, Cities of Bone would work very well indeed.

I wonder how many of those stories have happened in the past 20 years, or are they hoary old tales from the 80s? I'm running Dragonlance now, and I allowed kender characters, and one player rolled one up (a druid/cleric of Habbakuk). It's a group of mostly younger people who'd had nothing...

For my current Dragonlance game, I expected them to read the setting introduction at the start of Shadows of the Dragon Queen, which is about 15-20 pages (of a WotC book, so relatively low text density, lots of art, etc). I also provided a MUCH more comprehensive setting guide (mostly a...

AD&D was my 2nd rpg. The first (technically) was Twilight 2000, simply because I had no money in my early teens and found a copy for ten bucks at a clearance sale, and my only geek friend was just as much of a military nerd as I was. We spent dozens and dozens of hours with that book, making...

I have my doubts they'll be in a huge hurry to go back over some of the older 5e legacy settings, at least immediately. It looks to me like they're still experimenting a bit trying to work out the ideal way to package and present a campaign setting. The 'adventure with a bit of setting tacked...

Yeah, this is the real issue in all seriousness. I could order a copy on eBay or whatever now (Amazon AU still has it listed as out of stock with no expected date, but I can easily order from international) and have the books in my hands next week, but if you try to support the FLGS you'll be...

Oh entirely! :LOL: Still sick of it though.

I'm getting pretty damn tired of being a second class citizen when it comes to this stuff. Pretty much every WotC book in the last two years has been months late where i live.

Yeah I know, but it was Elmore and co who were actually doing the art, and they were clearly VERY influenced by 80s fashion. (And similarly, no doubt in 40 years time future gamers will cringe about the '2020s fashion' look so prevalent in 5e products...)

Given the heavy 80s fashion influence on the classic Elmore Dragonlance art, with its big hair and its quasi-leotard leggings, honestly, Weis should perhaps be a little careful about what she wishes for. A Dragonlance aesthetic with similar period influences on its female fashion may have left...

Ah, I hadn't twigged that it hadn't actually been released yet! I thought it was just a Saudi-only thing that had never been translated to English or had an international release. Some sort of political or censorship machination seems depressingly possible, not that I'm particularly expert on...

Fair response from Heroforge on this. Probably the only possible one, given the firestorm didn't seem likely to die down any time soon, but kudos to them for making the call in the end. And probably also kudos to Darrington for (reading between the lines) being willing to rewrite the contract...

Solasta was a nice engine for getting the hang of 5e combat, or trying out new race/class combinations. Pity about the bunch of click-through-able cutscenes regrettably tacked on. I did play through the Lost Valley DLC which wasn't much better, story-wise. And I got part through a...

Yeah, if they’d locked the Daggerheart content behind the existing subscription paywall there’d have probably been less backlash. If they’d even bumped the subscription price a bit (in line with inflation) people wouldn’t have liked it, but there’d have been grumbling rather than outright...