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I liked the notion in Tim Powers On Stranger Tides that Magic was always real on Earth but had faded due to human use of Iron Tools. It...

Why don't they? A marksman isn't that different that Matt Mercer's gunslinger (adjusting for firearm technology differences) and a...

I am the oldest in my role-playing group. The youngest two are in their upper 20's.

A contemporary fantasy setting would probably just need to tweak the skills to include modern day uses of them. Maybe even add some...

You reach a point where even holding the property is a hot potato. Do anything new with it and people will complain about the changes...

B&B= Boardrooms and Barghests. ;)

At that point, you've stopped making a D&D setting and started make a 5e-compatible RPG. For me, two important questions needs to be...

A Shadowrun-like setting that was more magical and less cyberpunk and had some of the 5.5e species (plus their geographical variants)...

NOTE 1: This thread is mostly just musing and theorycrafting; I would not actually use 5E for contemporary fantasy, but it came up in...

Same here. It doesn't take EN Publishing very long to fulfill a Backer's order once the crowdfunding is over with. And that's probably...

You play a sea monster fighting off mammalian encroachers?

It's funny how much art influences me. I look at the cover art for Mythozoology and it's a big, "No, thanks." Then I get to Tunnels &...

At least in the Forgotten Realms thanks to what happened during the Second Sundering. Now there is just the Dragonborn Diaspora.

My twin brother and I were expected to be born in October. We decided that we could not wait another month. 😛

"LotR" is the poster child for high fantasy. I know that in close reading it's got only a tenuous relationship with such a thing (e.g...