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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    I think the important question is “whose hand is gripping his left shoulder?”
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    Trailer Lanterns | Official Teaser | HBO Max

    I think it had more to do with the author’s wife…
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    I think the overlap is pretty massive! I know I do both, and I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone under 30 who doesn’t play video games. I would be up for that campaign! Certainly more interesting than FF7 without the interesting characters. Yuffi and Cait Sith can sit it out...
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    D&D General The 5e Ninja, would it be a class or a subclass?

    Other people have already talked about this, but if what you mean by ninja is “a character who can do the things a ninja is supposed to be able to do” 5e has all that covered. If you mean a character in a land where people talk about ninja in hushed whispers, then you could make a class (along...
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    Didn’t seem to hurt the sales of Baldur’s Gate 3.
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    The timeline is all messed up anyway if you move between settings. But Soth in Ravenloft isn’t the problem, Sithicus is. A setting heavy in obscure lore built to tell a specific story? I can’t see any reason WotC would want to put that back, given their renewed focus on content for play rather...
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    I don’t think WotC will be shy of slavery, no. I just think implying “you get to be a slave!” Is a really really bad marketing strategy. “Season of Liberation” would be a far better tag line for that approach. Although I think they will market it as Fantasy Fallout. Something else just...
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    Not original art, but then you wouldn’t expect the art for a product that is still eight months from release to be done yet.
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    Trailer Lanterns | Official Teaser | HBO Max

    Yeah, I expect any modern writer would take a more nuanced approach. It wouldn’t affect anything apart from the end, which didn’t exactly sink the landing anyway. This one you really need to keep in, since it is so characteristic of the author. Just in such a way as to not be repetitious.
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    That’s already been done in VGR. It’s subtle though, you need to know who “Firan” really is.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Solasta 2 Announced!!!

    I would suggest adding you would like “custom background” in the feedback. It wouldn’t be technically difficult. I notice backgrounds in Solasta 2 have a tragic backstory attached - the party were all raised together in an orphanage. Ergo their species doesn’t matter, since they were not raised...
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    Trailer Lanterns | Official Teaser | HBO Max

    The 60s was 60 years ago, and lanterns change on a regular basis. Why haven’t things changed? The current movie DCU has three human lanterns, all male, two toxically so.
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    D&D General Design issues with 5e

    Just my personal observation. It’s a long time (around 40 years) since I’ve seen any player motivated by the offer of gold. But they are always up for saving the world.
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    Ravenloft: The Horrors Within Announced, Release Date Scheduled for June 2026

    It wasn’t the setting that was particularly popular, it pretty generic, with a lot less variety and support for different types of story than the Forgotten Realms, and less genre focused than settings like Ravenloft and Dark Sun. It was the story that was popular, especially the War of the...
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