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Without analysing it TOO deeply, that's a pretty solid starting list. The only really obvious ones I can see missing are: The Buried Dagger. Not a particularly good book, but it has Mortarion's ascension to daemonhood in it (spoiler alert!), so you might want to read it for completeness...

Yeah, there’s definitely some duds or nothing books along the way. Eisenstein, Nemesis, the two early Dark Angels books, the Salamanders mini-arc culminating in Deathfire, Battle for the Abyss, Fear to Tread, just to name a few. Even End And The Death parts 2 and 3 didn’t really work for me...

That’s a pretty fair point of view. I’ve got mixed feelings about the implementation of power stunts in m&m in general, to be fair. It’s such a core element of the genre that you absolutely need to have them, but they can be a bit cheap and routine in practice. I’ve seen (not played in) games...

Yeah, that’s been similar to my experience too. M&M is mostly pretty quick in play (there are pain points, like recalculating everything after getting hit with a Weaken, or trying to manage a speedster on a battle map if that’s your jam, or sitting around twiddling thumbs while someone tries to...

I'm not really going to base my opinion on the developer, personally. Not everyone 'gets' the Realms in a way that I envision them or that works for me. I mean, I love Rich Baker's Eberron stuff, but his fingerprints (and Wyatt's) were all over the catastrophically bad 4th ed FR lore changes...

Hmm, even having the grid at all i think is a bit of a relic of D&D3e that's best moved past in the case of M&M. Super fights should be kinetic, not based around fiddly accounting for individual squares/hexes/spaces of movement to minimise attacks of opportunity etc. I'm not sure how you DO...

True, but there is such think as degrees of change. I don’t think many M&M fans want to see it transition to a completely narrative diceless system or anything like that, but there’s still probably scope for simplification while keeping the system recognisable. I mean, if anything the Valiant...

I’m interested, at this point, but I’ll wait and see. I’m a big ol’ FR lore tragic from way back, and one of the options I’m mulling for the next campaign I run is FR in the Shaar/Great Rift/Estagund/Mulhorand region, so I’m interested in the DM book, especially if the atlas turns out broadly...

Yeah, ‘Hordelands’ is pretty easily interpreted as a term used for the steppe by outsiders. Presumably the Tuigan and other nomads have their own name for it, although it’s probably been 35 years since I read those novels so I don’t remember what that might be. (Damn they did Yamun Khahan dirty...

Maybe, or maybe it's just reflective of the fact that the Dales have been exhaustively covered in lore and other setting products (the 3e FRCS for example) in the past, so are more filled out than further-flung lands. Very happy to see the Shaar back, it was a travesty what happened to that...

Gah. We're charging for a playtest pdf now? Do they want people to playtest the thing or not?

Of course, the same lore body that establishes Drizzt is NOT a serial killer also establishes that the Purple Dragons already have a dragon in their history (a black so old it’s scales had turned purple, as extensively documented by Troy Denning in the Cormyr: a Novel/Death of the Dragon books...

To be fair, when he said this he was basically snapping at an annoying (American, I think) reporter who’d been dogging his heels for a painful length of time asking and asking some variant of ‘why?’ I don’t think it was a considered or anccurate answer, it was more a short-tempered and...

Even Marvel has worked out by now, after years of desperate flailing and pouring vast amounts of money down the drain, that multiverse bulldust is 99% of the time utterly toxic to good worldbuilding AND compelling storytelling. Sadly, I’m not surprised to see WotC mulishly clubbing away at this...

I'm agnostic on that, but convincing people that CR is still CR without Mercer behind the screen in the 'main' campaign will be a pretty big adjustment that some might struggle with. If people aren't there for the game system, then they're there for the people and the story. You change the DM...