Recent content by Paul Farquhar

Maybe they have come up with some genius method of printing them more cheaply, such as employing all the people who have lost their jobs to AI to copy them out by hand.

It's absence from the schedule doesn't imply it being moved back a year, only a month or two. It was never going to come out April 2026!

Fallout TV series seems to do just fine, we have Dune 3 on the way. Ravenloft remains popular. There is still a demand for grimdark. Different people like different stuff. Dragonlance provides a good contrast to Dark Sun. Of course the problem with Romantacy is the sex. You can put all the...

Young children get excited about things because everything is new to them. When you get old you have seen it all before.

Then you would name it after the feature that made it distinct: the Season of Space Magic, not after the common generic fantasy trope.

You can put those in any setting. And you don’t need psionics and stuff to do it. How much effort have they put into psionics over the years? It would make no sense to do that just to do something on gladiators.

The fact is, if you wanted to do something about gladiators, you would set it in the Forgotten Realms (or Greyhawk, or Krynn’s past). There really is no reason to use Dark Sun for gladiators. They fit pretty much anywhere. Trying to use it to connect to “champions” is just a sad attempt to deny...

There is nothing new under the sun. All the best ideas have been used hundreds of times before. Indeed it’s often the familiarity that makes them so appealing. See: Star Wars. Personally, my approach to Dark Sun would have been to destroy Athas and create a similar world facing a similar...

None of these old settings have a significant fanbase. Those people are irrelevant. The point is they contain useful ideas that can be mined for current players.

Technically not my idea. I was persuaded by arguments put forward here.

And better quality! If they are also intended to be sold digitally on DDB, that might pay for more effort to be put into them.

Some sort of limited print run for organised play seems possible, since they aren't actually looking to profit directly from sales.

I don't think you have grasped the way the are designed to work.

Seems like the only way to make it economically viable. It may mean Deadfall gets online-only prequel and sequel modules.

We have a franchise model now remember. WotC are keen to work more closely with third parties, especially when it comes to stuff for DDB. And make less stuff in house it appears. For an old guy he has already taken on plenty of work for the next couple of years.