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The Warhammer 40k folder on my kindle right now contains 488 items. Now, a small number of them will be short stories rather than full-on novels, but I do know that there's many, many more that I don't own or have deleted for space. I'd be surprised if there was less than 100 more on top of...

Agreed. There seemed to be a deliberate effort in the 4th ed FR material to obsolete as much of the prior material as possible. Not to say there's stuff you can't mine, especially since the 5th ed soft reset, but that egg can never truly be unscrambled. Still, in the context of the thread...

People were legit worried about this in the leadup to 3rd edition, when that nasty MtG company took over D&D from TSR. Everything old is new again.

It'd be stretching the terms 'shared universe' and 'fantasy world' to breaking point and perhaps beyond, but I think that 'Regency Romancelandia' as portrayed in modern romance fiction (as opposed to the actually historically based stuff set in the Regency written by Austen and her...

Van Richten's Guides are the first thing that came to mind here. Ravenloft, with its Gothic roots traditionally creeps a bit more into blackpowder/gaslamp type of era where printing presses would be much less of an anachronism than in a more medieval-coded setting. And I'm fairly sure that Van...

The big problem you'd run in to is that the maths of D&Ds core combat mechanism is built around armour and shields being a major useful factor in combat. You'd need to compensate for that somehow, and all options are non-ideal. Introduce modern-day armour, kevlar vests etc that grant...

Huh, I'd never heard of that before (PNW poetry not being a major subject of study in Australia...), so I'm kinda mind blown about how many of its lines are repurposed in the excellent Westray by Weeping Tile

Most people, yes. Weis and Hickman, apparently less so.

The BMX Behemoth....

Space lycanthropes never settle on a single world, instead forming a travelling armada that follows the full moon from planet to planet, ravaging each in turn.

I'm kind of a proponent of WotC using different settings as exemplars of different ways to play the game. VRGtR had some great genre advice etc for horror games, for instance, but you could very easily go further with additional rules systems, optional mechanics etc. I just haven't always...

Dragonlance is a MELODRAMA setting which is why a magnificent Gothic cliche like Lord Soth fitted in so perfectly, because Gothic horror tends to be as melodramatic as hell. Big drama, big romance, big coincidences, big villains, big revelations, big destinies. That's why SotDQ missed the...

Unscientifically and purely based on vibes, I suspect that AI bans HELP small creators much more than they hurt, because they mean that the products that the small creators make aren't drowned out in the sort of tidal wave of slop that deluges every outlet currently accepting electronic...

There was a pretty large amount of ENWorld consultation and input into A5e, I'm just saying....

Interesting survey structure, lots of questions about general trust in WotC (and probably lots of zeros...), but the only question I got that allowed for a written response specifically asked about how to improve trust in the direction of D&D under WotC ownership. So I read that as a question...