Recent content by Paul Farquhar

Possibly, or possibly because they think more people will buy a generic splat book than yet another FR setting book.

Full size book would be 80, not 60. So no.

My partner is the real crime fiction expert, but I think it’s fairly typical of Marsh. In fact Alleyn is so bland that I think she is deliberately trying to keep the detective out of the spotlight. But relegating the detective to minor character is something most of them do occasionally, all...

Sure, neither do I, but I can look at the evidence and make inferences. Sure, but why is the adventure separate? The cost suggests they could easily be combined into one book - and that would actually be more profitable since fewer covers equals cheaper printing costs. I would suggest it was...

Try reading them - there is nothing to suggest they are Thayan. They seem more Sigil if anything. A few other points: The marketing for the adventure makes no secret of the setting. However the marketing of the splat book makes no mention of FR. The book contains what are, in effect, core...

The faction text that is visible in the photo is clearly not FR related.

If it has hit points, we can kill it.

Quite. I've never had the remotest interest in getting in the sea or on a boat, so I'm not frightened of sharks. I used to be afraid of dogs, managed to overcome that.

I think it’s setting agnostic - only the adventure is FR, setting specific stuff will be in that.

I was thinking more about the idea that Switzerland had had 500 years of peace.

Thicker than the adventure, but less thick than the Ravenloft book, which appears to have fewer subclasses (unless it has artificer and psion).

Much as I hate to bring this thread back on topic*, it seems to me that this is a slimmer book that might contain as many as 11 subclasses. I’m not sure all that crunch will leave much space for setting-specific lore. The new factions appear to be multiversal. *you don’t see many reptiles here...

This largely demonstrates that Harry Lime knows less about history than Indiana Jines.

It's built into the Immortals rules of the Basic D&D sequels, and is certainly a well known trope. I guess it comes from Moorcock, who quite often kills off gods, usually with Stormbringer. My group killed Tharizdun as the level 20 boss, but failed to make it permanent.