Recent content by doctorhook

I hate flashy martial attacks soo much 😡😡😡

Those videos games are the reason why those places are important legacy elements of FR. Baldur’s Gate was just another dot on the fictional map until a major video game was set there. Additionally, there are a ton of very important legacy Realms locations that didn’t have hit video games named...

A lot of these examples are just names of cities on the Sword Coast, but some of D&D’s most successful video games were also named after those cities. And it becomes obvious when they start emphasizing the connection by including elements from the video game into the marketing for the new...

I mean, they’ve been trying to milk the success of past video game hits for years, and then they missed the boat on solidly tying many products to this video game release. (Part of the problem was that BG3 was in Early Access for a long while, so some tie-in products—MTG for example—happened...

You’re in luck! This book has been available for an entire decade already.

Is this a situation where even fictional gods are confused by a recording of their own voice??

Ah ha! My cynical joke-suggestion becomes more plausible!

Is Zynga still around? I feel like Hasbro would hire Zynga for this EDIT: Baldur’s Gate 4: Adventures in FarmVille! “Share this post daily with your family and friends to receive in-game gold!”

I’ll sell a budget version of this, wherein most of the PCs are Haribo and a lot of the monsters are blue whales, Swedish fish, and gummy earthworms. It’ll retail for $1 per encounter, and it’ll be available at 7-11.

Products like this seem like the wrong direction to me. TTRPGs seem to have more peripherals, more plastic, more stuff now than ever before, at a time when overconsumption is a major driver of climate change and cost of living is already skyrocketing. As a hobby, we should be moving toward using...

Parts of the background (namely the building piled upon each other, or the crowd of people at the bottom) look like they could have been generated… or maybe I’ve just become completely paranoid and suspicious

Oh no! I love so much of the stuff this guy did

I like that evocative subtitle: “Runefire: Not Final Graphics” (Just kidding! Plz don’t throw tomatoes!)

I’m sorta confused and can’t watch the video now (and likely won’t if it’s more than 30 seconds long). What am I looking at?

Somehow the naysayers are suddenly quiet! (I probably shouldn’t even mention it, lest they come back.)