Recent content by Parmandur

It is both, a huge opportunity without needing to worry about ruining a preexisting story...but also a challenge, because they have to build without a preexisting story.

This sounds more like standard development rather than development hell: if everything goes well, it takes years and years for this sort of thing.

Obviously, two books is on the table, but for Dark Sun in particular...with such a small Setting (smaller than the Adventure area in Princes of the Apocalypse, which is in the middle of nowhere)...it would suffice.

Wouldn't be shocked at all. In fact, if Dark Sun does eventually, next year is just going to be an in-style year for grimdsrl post-apocalyptic fantasy, with the Mistborn RPG also dropping.

Very possible, though a quick search doesn't find any acknowledgement of an influence. Hidden Fortress is still a pretty archetypal heroic story, just the viewpoint framing is from the picaresque farmers.

Yup, the OG was inspired heavily by The Hidden Fortress, and Akira Kurosawa Samjrai movie about two peasants who traipize through the background of a high stakes Samjrai drama.

Yeah, it's super explicit everywhere except the movies.

Importantly, he says that after Ed Harris addresses him as "sailor"...so that is pretty clearly the screenwriter lampshading the Bond connection. In fact, I saw a crazed conspiracy video once that connected Harris character to the incident where Connery Bond faked his death in Southeast Asia...

That's because the big IP corporations are on the cusp of turning Open AI into a money piñata.

Personally, I am only aware of the Soviet world existing from history class, and I am 40. People are notoriously bad at history, as a rule, though.

The Median American was like 4 at the time, to he fair.

I mean, they are both valuable, but if we are counting bang for ghe buck PC options are simply going to be around longer in a game.

Eliminster's evil clone, probably with a goatee over his beard.

I mean, Halastar was actually like 5,000 years old when he died, and came from a pre-Netherese civilization l, but thst involves timefreezing. But he was active again im the 2nd ce fury DR. Sliminster was born on the 3rd century DR. So with powerful magics users, knowledge of the ancient world...

Yes, ut still a Monster stat block is used for 2 or maybe 3 rounds of combat, as opposed to hundreds for a PC option.