Recent content by Parmandur

Genre as we use it is more about marketers categorizing the readership than the text. Some people like the good puzzle of a mystery, some like the goosebumps raising emotions of horror, some like the passiona of romance, and some of us when presented with an absolutely bizarre hypothetical such...

Just watched it, very clever framing to focus in on the Luxon beacon early.

And Mystara was not originally a BECMI Setting: it was the Kent State shared home campaign for OD&D that Schenck, Cook, and Moldvay took into TSR with them when they graduated and got jobs together.

I honestly don't see those tensions in amy of the Settings they have released, in the slightest, but Ravnica is largely original as presented in the book: Wyatt had to make most of it up, and again he also wrote the DMG. Take a gander at Ravnica sometime, it's a darned good book, and comes close...

So in what ways does the Guildmasters Guide to Ravnica not do that...?

Interestingly, episode 3 catches the cartoon up to the point where people usually recommend starting the game streams, once they hit their stride.

For what it is worth, the basic plot and character material of the Mighty Nein campaign is actually much better, in my opinion. This show is likely going to be wild.

Vecna is set in Greyhawk for a large part of it, amd the DMG now has an extensive Hreyhawk gazateer in it.

It does make more sense based on those numbers that were revealed recently about ho much monry WotC makes from OneBookShelf...which also owns both Roll20 and Demiplane. It also means more avenues for people to give WotC money, which matters more than having a monopoly.

Star Trek was CW-fied like 25 years ago

Yeah, he invented secondary world fiction

I like Rising from the Last War's explanation for the sudden proliferation of Dragonborn: most Humans still think they are Lizardfolk, cuz all them reptiles look the same. Handy, elegant, complete explanation.

If you run Exandria, most FR stuff can fit in there handily enough. Even the factions cam be translated without major overhauls.

There are Tiefling and Dragonborn NPCs all the time in the Campaign books? Some people loudly complained about that with Saltmarsh, for example, but it goes all the way back to Hoard of the Dragon Queen.

I mean, a new one literally is juat dropping, it is an ongoing series. And the people I know who read ot are in their 20s or 30s, actually...