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...
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...
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.
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?"
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...
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...
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?
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.
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...
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...
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?