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I was surprised at the depictions of guns (yeah I know, they’re really gun shaped wands) in some of the art, as well as the eldritch cannons and lighting rail. They seem a little more “mechanical” in aesthetic than’s the norm for the artwork. Not that this is a complaint, mind you! In my...

For the longest time I've been wrestling with a setting idea rather similar to this, with inspiration from Shannara, Adventure Time, and Thundarr the Barbarian. Basically, humanity is wiped out in an apocalyptic event that involved rampant magic and technology, and possibly a visit from entities...

What I've been trying to figure out is how to have firearms be relevant alongside crossbows in a setting where firearms are rare but are not rare enough to be considered artifacts. I don't know about merely giving them more damage as the DMG seems to suggest. I read somewhere that someone gave...

My biggest deal breaker is probably playing in a setting like the Realms or Dragonlance. Nothing makes me snore more than vanilla, Tolkein-esque fantasy. That being said, I do like interesting or cool stories, so I can overlook the standard heroic fantasy cliches if the campaign hook or premise...

I gotta say this is a step in the right direction for 5e psionics (any mechanical complaints I have has already been covered in this thread). Unfortunately I'm pretty sure we're not gonna see some good support for it for a couple of years :( Sorry Dark Sun and Eberron, you'll get your dues...

How do my fellow DMs go about running Eberron for 5e? How do you incorporate stuff like artificers, widespread (but low level) magic which means abundant magic items, dragonmarks, the new races, and so on? I know there's an UA article for Eberron but it seemed very bare bones, and I didn't like...

That's certainly an interesting take on it, one that I hadn't thought of before. That being said, I think they should let psionics be whatever the DM wants it to be, not tied to a specific cosmology/setting. For example, I'd probably still utilize psionics as a distinct force from arcane and...

Full conversion of Expedition to Barrier Peaks!

Hmm, good question. I'd say their air filtration systems (and methods of preserving the city underwater in general) were one of the few things that was magitech, rather than pure technology. They avoided utilizing too much magitech, though, since that part of the world carried a potent pocket of...

Other than my homebrew setting, I've toyed with the idea of having actual technological progress happen in the Forgotten Realms, something I know is heresy among many of its fans. Lantan survived the Spellplague by becoming Atlantis/Rapture, and rose back up again from the ocean during the...

I'm curious, have you guys as DMs ever had players really have a problem with you introducing non-fantasy elements into what they expected was going to be straightforward fantasy? Like, having the party discover a crashed spaceship in the Forgotten Realms setting, or being attacked by humans...

Exactly that, actually. I find the entire Sword Coast in general to just be an uninspiring locale. What about Calimshan? Or adventures in the jungles of Chult? Or my private fantasy that I know will never happen, the Island of Lantan re-emerging as a steampunk city and raining down...

If Wizards doesn't do a remake of this module I will be extremely disappointed. Throwing a few tidbits of alien technology in the DMG does not count.

I like them a lot, partly because they're treasure troves that you can pick apart for your own stories and settings. And as I mentioned earlier, they try to make the APs as distinct as possible: gothic horror, Egyptian adventures, sci-fi meets fantasy, traveling to Asia (although the "Asia" AP...

I actually agree with this, I've always found the Pazi adventure paths to be a bit lacking in the storytelling department. My big problem (and something I admittedly should have elaborated on in my original post) is that I was never really a fan of the FR setting itself since almost all of the...

Probably why this was made. I like this idea a lot!

Nope. It's about uncertainty and emotional and physical scars from a long, terrible war, in an era eerily similar to post-World War I. It's about the schemes of dragonmarked houses, fantasy equivalents of megacorporations. It's about swashbuckling, pulpy adventures in dangerous lands. It's about...

Given Eberron's general pulpy, film noir, Indiana Jones-esque themes, magic-powered trains and airships and robots, muddled alignment, countries with no immediately obvious real-world parallels, original races (changelings, warforged, kalashtar, shifters) and how they give races unique and...

Other than Gamma World, I really want to see more diversification in storytelling from Wizards. Part of the reason why I love Paizo's Adventure Paths is that they're all thematically different, even if those differences appear minor. Paizo has had: -An adventure path based off of Russian fairy...

I know I'm definitely in the fringe minority here but a proper shot at Gamma World using 5th edition rules would be killer. I have no idea what they were thinking when they did that whole card collecting crap with 4th edition, and constantly recycled the art because reasons.