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This all makes sense. Discovering Planescape in 2008 or so, I just had to put on my dad's Enigma CD while reading it. Everything about the setting was so... 1994 college French major... that anything else felt wrong. It just makes you want to order a cappuccino in a for-here mug at the kind of...

If nothing else, I hope that the next incarnation of Shadowrun dice will have numbers be small and on the corner while the dragon (5-6) and skull (1) logos are big and center. I just made my own by taking black opaque d6s from Chessex and coloring the 2-4 pips black (and 1s a different color)...

Something that really surprised me is how pointless the "choice" of saving throws is. In 5e, there are three strong saves that cover up the vast, vast majority of monster abilities and spells (Dex/Con/Wis) and three weak saves that are only very rarely tested (St/Int/Cha). The developers are...

I had the opposite thought... I have whole floor-to-ceiling bookshelves of WoD stuff, but I'm actually NOT anticipating VtM 5. Everything they've put out so far indicates that it's going to be an Edgelord LARPer disaster that mostly serves to highlight how much better Requiem 2nd is. I assumed...

"Skaven are just a myth, a story told to scare children"... and then there are Skaven on the cover of the core book. Skaven are such a poorly-kept setting secret that the best way to get the feel right as a GM is to decide that they DON'T actually exist, and were just a brilliant deception...

I've done the exact same. If you look at the races and monsters that have Superior Darkvision, they're the ones that really need darkvision to survive. The list of characters with mere Darkvision, on the other hand, is basically just humans, halflings, and a few random monsters. A world where...

This is what I do. Every human I've made has had either Resilience or a more-flavor-than-op feat like Ritual Caster. (Ritual Caster is a great non-casting-class feat from an out-of-combat perspective, by the way. You can accumulate tons of helpful utility spells like Identify, Detect Magic...

I really don't understand the [unexpectedly vocal dislike] in this thread. If you absolutely need nostalgic 1970s-style line art, just get one of the previous printings. (Or probably the next one, since I'm sure FGG knows their core audience.) This isn't a conspiracy, it's just a cool...

There's really only just enough commentary in the margins to remind you of what a miserable, hateful bastard Elminster is. Volo's notes are helpful additions to the text. It's useful far beyond FR... I'm actually in the beginning stages of drawing up a brand new campaign setting built entirely...

Thanks for the response! I didn't realize it was an intentional copy of the NatGeo house style; that's really interesting. I'm curious, though... if you have the map built as some sort of vector-based model rather than a piece of art, how much work would go into producing a sepia-toned version...

I'm a big fan of this map, from Hoard of the Dragon Queen. I probably should have clarified in my initial post that I'm not against any blue at all, just really saturated light blues like you get in modern maps. This is a really cool blue-gray color that, to me, lends more of an epic fantasy...

[RANT BASED ON PERSONAL SUBJECTIVE TASTE] Look, I love a bold light blue. It's my favorite color. Half of my shirts are light blue. My winter scarf is light blue. I went to UNC. I'm a fan. But it has its place, and that place is probably not as the color of the sea on a fantasy world map. It...

Glad to see Stars Without Number getting some attention. I really like Sine Nomine's work, pretty much across the board. I haven't played White Star, but the best way to describe Stars Without Number is that it's a sci-fi toolkit version of Swords & Wizardry (i.e., white box D&D), but with the...

Having now actually read the Star Wars REU mentioned in the article, I just want to complain that Stormtroopers* are yet again statistically inferior to all other Imperial and Rebel infantry. This is unacceptable. (*Excluding specialty Stormtroopers. The Zero-G Stormtroopers are straight-up EU...

For what it's worth, I prefer the legal, "inspired by" versions of settings anyway. A lot of the time, the result of avoiding IP violations is a better roleplaying setting than the original universe that the game is trying to emulate. Fictional universes are generally designed solely to enable...

My only hope is that, if they do an Eberron book at some point, they unruin the map scale. Everything about the setting finally made sense when I heard that Khorvaire was originally designed to be the size of Europe until some WotC executive rolled up and said "That's not EPIC enough! Make it...

There's a third option: People who play it not because they prefer it, but because it's pretty versatile and you can tell whatever kinds of medieval fantasy stories you want. I love Eberron and Planescape, but those don't have the kind of generic appeal that FR does. Of the generic settings, I...

Yeah, I don't really understand why people are in such a hurry to get a new FRCS. The Forgotten Realms setting is so big and fleshed-out that once you're at the point where you need info on [insert random country here], you're probably a sophisticated enough DM that you can just pull out some 2e...

I'm pretty happy with the Immortal overall, but I kind of put them on blast regarding Mystic skill proficiencies and the Immortal's Martial Order power not providing heavy armor. It's pretty obvious that the skill list for Mystic was designed with the Awakened in mind, and the Immortal came...

Yeah, but the original TORG die was legible... :(