Recent content by Paul Farquhar

I used to be a cartographer. We often left things off our street plans for reasons like "we can't fit that on the page" and "we have to not infringe on Ordinance Surveys' IP". Didn't make those places disappear.

Probably happened in Africa several thousand years earlier. Sacrifice, human and otherwise, is a common ritual, and you want to do that as close to the gods as possible. And the easiest way to get close to the gods is to build a step pyramid.

The big takeaway from that is that adventures sold a lot better than settings. If that's reflected in WotC's data, it would suggest that the current setting/adventure ratio is too high.

Are you thinking about the art? Because that doesn't matter since there will obviously be new art. Aztecs are the only one of these that might cause issues. We had a reprint of Hidden Shrine as recently as Yawning Portal. But thanks to ToA WotC will be a bit Leary of references. But the...

A slightly adjacent topic, but I recently reread REH's Red Nails, and I was stuck by how his lost city resembled an abandoned shopping mall. A large low rectangular building, lots of glass in the roof for light, a closed environment, wide east-west and north-south boulevards surrounded by...

Changing or deleting these seems to me like the biggest change that the setting requires. Don’t recall much real world culture in the original boxed set. Aside from Rome, which doesn’t count. I don’t think metaplot stuff matters to the setting. Obviously, there will always be some people who...

So, what do you think they are for? Because if they wanted to do a Blood Mage they would have called it a Blood Mage. There is no reason to use Dark Sun specific terminology unless you are doing Dark Sun (and are quite happy for people to know that).

I saw it on BBC I think. Does that count? I haven’t seen it since though. It seems to have gone to the same place as Pirates of Darkwater. Don’t remember, too long ago. I think there was an explanation though.

No, I tried using them, they were terrible. Space combat in Traveller isn’t really fun - too simulationist.

Which were bad.

Who are these “lots of people”?

The weird capitalisation is a strong indicator. I doubt we will hear more from that username. Who are these HEROES that we are being warned not to antagonise? Coded message is coded.

It’s not only kids who like fluffy bunnies. I would say that kids over 6 are very unlikely to like fluffy bunnies.

I suspect the issue the poster has is it had black people in it. Hence it’s relevance to this discussion.

You don't need to be black to spot the colonialist tropes in ToA. I'm white and I they jumped out at me at once. Specifically, why is there no resistance movement to all these Sword Coaster colonies?!