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    D&D Beyond Releases Free Forgotten Realms Adventure

    Weren't mini-adventures like this called "Side Quests" in Dungeon magazine back in the day? Or I am just completely making that up?
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    DMs Guild [Design Notes] Forgotten Realms Travel Guide: Faerûn, Kara-Tur, and Zakhara

    I think I'm going to bite the bullet and put one of my maps on the cover of the Travel Guide. Stock art would make a better first impression, since stock art was the only part of this project which benefited from a non-zero budget. But a map is more thematic, even if it isn't professionally...
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    DMs Guild [Design Notes] Forgotten Realms Travel Guide: Faerûn, Kara-Tur, and Zakhara

    Hmm. I didn't take the early brick-and-mortar release date for the official Forgotten Realms books into account when planning to drop the Travel Guide at the same time. I'll have to see if I have time to pull together the final PDF and put up a product page over the weekend. I suppose I won't...
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    Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)

    The idea that "we need a really strong leader to sort people out" is, itself, a problem a really strong leader can't fix. So I'm going to say the aliens just replaced a bunch of problems with another big problem.
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    D&D General Forgotten Realms Book preview from NYCC

    Novularond, the Peaks in the Ice, whose geothermal heat keeps them mostly free of snow and ice
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    Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)

    I was lucky enough to have seen Children of Men without knowing anything about it. To this day, I still remember getting to that scene and asking, a short way into it, "Wait, have they not cut away to a different camera yet?"
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    D&D General Favorite Forgotten Realms products of all time?

    It's possible the two upcoming FR books, taken together, might have more ready-to-use content than the 3e FRCS. The new books will have more mini-adventures, if nothing else. But it's really saying something that it takes two full-sized hardcovers just to complete with the content in the 3e FRCS...
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    DMs Guild [Design Notes] Forgotten Realms Travel Guide: Faerûn, Kara-Tur, and Zakhara

    Wouldn't you know I'd end up spraining a finger in the last two weeks before the big Forgotten Realms launch. The finger I most use for trackpads, no less. Getting all the finishing touches on the Travel Guide done in time for a simultaneous release with the official books is going to be...
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    D&D General Beadle & Grimms Forgotten Realms Premium Map Collection

    Vilhon Reach also got detailed in its own dedicated Forgotten Realms module which, oddly, wasn't included in the FR series
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    D&D 5E (2024) Mike Mearls explains why your boss monsters die too easily

    The game is designed to have 6-8 encounters per Long Rest, and (at low to mid levels), it takes 6-8 max difficulty encounters to level up. So... eliminate Long Rests, and apply the benefits of a Long Rest whenever the PCs gain a level?
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    D&D General Beadle & Grimms Forgotten Realms Premium Map Collection

    If they group southern Faerun and northern Zakhara together, they could easily do a pair of Great Sea sourcebooks that cover the same amount of ground as the (northern) Faerun sourcebooks.
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    D&D General Beadle & Grimms Forgotten Realms Premium Map Collection

    I'm guessing it's not a coincidence that the Forgotten Lands are all the lands in and around the Forgotten Kingdom of Impiltur. As an aside, I find it amusing we now have the Forgotten Kingdom (Impiltur) in the Forgotten Lands (northeastern Faerun) in the the Forgotten Realms (the world of...
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    DMs Guild [Design Notes] Forgotten Realms Travel Guide: Faerûn, Kara-Tur, and Zakhara

    Today's mission: agonize over minutiae as I review my list of graphics that might look better if I moved something a few pixels to the left. Since that doesn't make for an exciting forum post, here's a randomly chosen map. Because sometimes you just need to know where in the Underdark gray...
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    ChatGPT lies then gaslights reporter with fake transcript

    I've heard this before and it always strikes me as odd. I'm genuinely curious: if asking, "Are you sure?" identifies most hallucinations, why isn't "Are you sure?" functionality being used under the hood to proactively stop hallucinations from happening?
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