Recent content by Marandahir

It's literally the blank slate core setting that fits everything in it. A lot of people want to play in their own sandbox but one with just enough demarcated that they don't have to make everything up but also don't have to read 500 novels or a wikia to understand the background. I think WOTC...

Nerath.

No survey for me. :/

They haven't shown us the Bard since going back to spell lists. They should have at least 1 more packet.

Remember that D&D canon is just the WotC story bible, and they actively encourage Joker Backstory shenanigans. Honestly – arguing about which canon origin we prefer? That's literally what historians and religious scholars and politicians and lit majors and scientists of all stripes have been...

Weird that it includes the character Euryale (Yoor-eye-ah-lee), one of the Gorgons, since I literally was just reading about the Gorgons and struggled with her pronunciation and looked it up literally a few hours ago and only afterward saw this article now!

No, technologies developed from the field of research that includes artificial intelligence have been used in digital art since at least the 1970s. There is no extant technology that is actually AI. Large language models are NOT intelligent; they are a particular type of database that averages...

And here's the catch I hadn't heard. Yup, so this was all good PR while probably Hasbro's working on making it legal but less visible for future projects. UGH. Thanks for the sources and info.

That's a little bit overboard. The Courts still exist. They're building back from the fall. If Throne of Eldraine was the time of Arthur, then we're now in the fascinating and shadowy period that comes after. So much of Celtic song and poem are odes to the days gone by. Eldraine now can have...

Ack still seeing people making unfounded claims on how AI filters work. The so-called AI was trained on all the art it could find on the internet. It's not a just another tool in the toolbox, it's an amalgam of other people's works with the original work. It falls into a similar territory as...

Oh I agree. But these books are trying to be both, but often are coming from people who aren't from the cultures they're inspired by. And even though those works mentioned are inspired by Europe, there's still a bunch of Japanese tropes built in to each of them. Hellsing even has anime miko...

The big difference is that back in the day they got a whole year of development for a setting, while now it's about 2/3 the card face content (everything is a large set) but 1/3 the lore (because only one set in the location). Eldraine is just NOW getting its part 2. And while it has to serve...

I'm glad of the fix. I'm also glad I can download the images onto my computer. This might be a rare case where I might buy a second copy of the book just to show support for the art change in physical (but only after the second printing starts). I want to put my money where my mouth is and show...

And now Eldraine as of yesterday, as a tie-in to this month's launch of the second Feywild-esque Eldraine set, Wilds of Eldraine. Note that each of the Planeshift articles and coffeetable books and D&D MtG books were tie-ins to Magic sets that were released the same year or fiscal year. So the...

Was there a Minecraft tie-in book? I assume all their comments in the document about how to repurpose these Eldraine creatures for a Feywild or Giants campaign are their tie-ins. For the planeshift comments -- it should be noted that each Magic setting that got a big coffee-table book and a...