Recent content by Demetrios1453

There's obviously some unreliable narration either in Fizban's or in this - or both! Which, even if it's purposely keeping things a bit unclear, allows for player and DM choice in the matter.

Having quickly scanned through it, I will have to say, it is a gorgeous book. There's a huge amount of art, some of which we've seen before, but a lot that looks to be new. Also the scales on the cover of the book are raised, giving it a nice 3d feel when holding it. The first section is on...

Just got a notification that mine has shipped and will be here on Tuesday. I'll respond here once I've gotten it and taken a look through it.

Even if a majority says it's right doesnt make it objectively right. Only that a majority holds that subjective opinion. And WotC's threshold is 70% if I remember correctly, not 50% plus one.

But I, and others here, don't think that the PDK and (potential) Sammaster retcons are bad. And honestly, I didn't much care for the teifling retcons in that series - thankfully we're back to demon and yugoloth descended tieflings now, for example. There are, logically, only three possible...

Canon is fine, but too rigid adherence to canon can be a problem. Also, what exactly can be considered canon? I imagine that most people think the versions of Amn and Tethyr as presented in the 3e FRCS and later are the original canon version, but that depiction only started in the 1997 boxed...

No, it would hatch into a turtle. Big enough for four elephants to stand on it to hold up the flat remains of the world upon their backs.

I'm more curious about Mulhorand and Unther. Apparently they weren't fantasy Egypt and fantasy Mesopotamia in Ed's original version. I mean, I like them being fantasy Egypt and Mesopotamia (I once had a whole campaign set in the region), but I do wonder what they were like before...

Well, my illusions are shattered.

Never? Or at least if there is a limit, the Realms are nowhere near it.

All of the 5e gem dragons have floating crystals in some capacity on their bodies. Amethyst and crystal dragons have them as back spines as well.

Then call the stern the prow. Given the stars in question, it would work fine either way.

That might have been true up until the time-skip at the start of 4e. Before that, every area of Faerûn had been pretty much been fully detailed. Since then, we've had decent coverage of the Sword Coast, but just about everywhere else has had a few paragraphs, at most.

I mean, I did leave out those areas for a reason, and mentioning that, yes, the areas around the rivers are settled. But once you get past Daggerford, you've got hundreds of miles before you'll be seeing civilization again. For me, PoL the technology doesn't matter. Are there still wide swathes...

Well, astronomically speaking, the old constellation Argo (named after Jason's ship and now divided into Puppis, the stern, Vela, the sail, and Carina, the keel) actually has the stern forward and the prow to the rear as it moves along its daily path through the sky. I'm pretty sure the ancient...