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Ya, happy to help. And you're welcome to post more of your ideas here, or to say how it goes when you run it.

Threadjack all you like. Shadowdark uses gold for XP, no? That makes for a game a lot better suited to the tempo of the module as originally written (orange one, not green one which dungeon of signs is discussing). PCs go to a strange place, loot it, and get stronger. That risk/reward calculus...

Thanks for providing the background Jer. The saddest part of the whole thing is that it was the only module written by Jean Wells--the first woman hired at TSR's design dept.--who was sidelined immediately thereafter, purportedly because upper management disliked the artwork in it. I bet she...

Completely agree. There is a lot to build on in it.

Not sure what you mean by prese Tatiana--but I did read every entry in the 1987 Forgotten Realms Campaign Set and mark the adventure locations and settlements it describes on a map (in post 114 of this thread). It did not seem particularly 'points of light' in the heartlands region (or dalelands...

You know that awesome line in Star Wars IV where Leia says "General Kenobi. Years ago you served my father in the Clone Wars" completely without elaboration on what the Clone Wars were--and how much that line draws you in. Well, this module does that really well (I mean the non-bowdlerized...

Thanks for providing the background. Some of this I knew, though not the RPGA bit about Sembia, Dragon Reach, and Southern Lake of Dragons. Though in Sembia's case I did basically get that sense from reading the entries. One of the things I'm curious about (I asked some time back in another...

Rage as religious ecstasy makes sense conceptually, and it's pretty on brand with the (dubious) historical accounts of berserker rage. I'm not saying the subcass does the archetype well, but it's not a ridiculous idea. And barbarian archetypes are generally pretty thin; battlerager, storm...

Possible, but I'm not so sure. I expect the DMG to be completely different. Moreover, if subclasses are gonna appear in the DMG, they'd still want to playtest them, wouldn't they?

I have to agree with the folks commenting that the necromancer is missing. Necromancers are a staple of fantasy fiction that are represented in mythology, and that appear across 1920s pulp, LotR, and recent fantasy. It's a pretty big archetype to leave out.

Thanks, I appreciate it. I dunno why I overlooked those.

At this point, we have a pretty good idea which subclasses will be in the new PHB, though we don't know all of them yet. What do you think of the ones they ultimately decided to include? Are there any excluded that you think are unfortunate omissions? You're welcome to answer in mechanics or...

Yeah, this is on point. If I were to pitch something other than the above, it would be something that very ostentatiously borrows from Studio Ghibli.

So, I don't think WotC are going to make any new settings--but if they did, this is my thinking: In the DMG there is a list of flavors of fantasy. In order, they are: Heroic Fantasy Sword and Sorcery Epic Fantasy Mythic Fantasy Dark Fantasy Intrigue Mystery Swashbuckling War Wuxia Most of...

Thanks for explaining. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that folks who make dubious history videos also make dubious game design videos. I thought they'd be more authoritative on games since it's nominally their area of expertise. Can you recall anything specific that they got badly wrong, or an...

I liked you before Snarf, butt now (cough) *but now I think you might be the greatest. Well, actually, would you mind getting into it here? (now that the thread is partway down an edition war rabbit hole) I stopped watching Extra Credits years ago after Dan left and was replaced by the new...

Well, dang, this thread got very fixated on grave digging very fast. The internet is a hell of a drug. The answers depend a lot on your starting assumptions. If you're taking the approach recommended by @Oofta to start with the fantastical world you want and work backwards to things that must...

True, it's not a great LotR emulator or a great Conan emulator. But the gameplay loop of the earliest editions of D&D was a pretty good emulator of Vance--incentivizing blank slate pícaros to get themselves killed whilst risking their lives for treasure and/or magic doodads. The Monsters and...