Recent content by Paul Farquhar

It’s currently popular, in the way pseudo-medieval knights were 40 years ago. Ditching the dragonrider subclass was stupid imo.

I made the ship my PCs "acquired" slower than normal too, as it was supposed to be an old tub. It may have been 10 mph, but I'm not very good at keeping track of my old notes.

The dragonrider fantasy is focused on the rider, not having an all powerful "I win button" as a pet. The important thing is having a scally pet that you can ride through the air on. It doesn't need to be powerful - indeed it needs not to be. No it isn't. Dragons are designed as monsters for a...

Amethysts are purple, ergo they are purple dragons, just not Purple dragons. And the original purple dragon wasn't a Purple dragon either, it was a Black dragon.

Math error I suspect. I noticed the 4 MPH given for airships in the 2014 rules was too slow for Eberron when I ran my Sky Raiders campaign. I forget what I adjusted it too, I don't think there was a canonical speed given in ERftLW. I drew a small older model airship deck plan similar to this for...

I certainly think the Dungeonland modules were the best thing Gygax wrote. He really lets his imagination rip (and shows a deep affection for an author that isn't called Howard or Burroughs). And I do think people need to be reminded that Gary wasn't Captain Generic. I think its way past time...

If a player was goofing around on their phone for two hours rather than being actively engaged with your game it sounds like your game was boring.

Sure, that’s one person’s explanation. It’s not wrong, but it is wrong to insist it’s the only explanation. That’s also not a rule. The original Planescape setting leaned heavily into a 19th century understanding of science, with its either and phlogesteron, and other stuff that had been...

Abiogenesis is the simplest explanation. That’s why people believed it until evidence of something more complicated was discovered. But yes, you will probably want to decide something - but what that something is isn’t dictated by the rules. So everyone can have a different interpretation, and...

There is nothing to say biology exists in D&D-land. It’s fantasy. No science is implied.

The rules don’t say anything about how any sort of reproduction works. Babies could be delivered by storks so far as the rules are concerned. In practical terms, the DM/players decide that stuff for their game, there is no rules based interpretation.

Gods can manifest as whatever gender they want. Sure, you can have multiple gods of the same thing, that’s been the case at least since the FR started importing gods from other worlds - which is pretty much as long as the setting has existed.

That kind of happens in Shadows of Undrentide. My players managed to get Ythryn off the ground for that matter. Before crashing it.

I’m conscious that I don’t want to bore people with long winded descriptions. And anyway, asking questions is a sign of engagement.

Why go to the trouble of using colour on an apparently black and white map though? Especially for just a bit of stage dressing.