Recent content by humble minion

And here I was all these years thinking "Connectiarg!" was actually the mating call of the incompetent electrician. Shows what I know...

It's funny, I'm old enough to remember when WotC announced that only their 5e material was 'canon' any more, and now if they're going to bring Soth back to Ravenloft they're decanonicising a reference in VRGtR where they had Sithicus slowly dissolving into nothingness now its lord had...

It might be different in other parts of the world, but this is the most common turtle where i come from. Note the claws. They're well over half an inch long, coated in noxious riverbottom slime, and the legs have a surprising range of motion. Yes, it CAN get you with its back claws if you...

As a long-time wildlife rescuer who has a LONG personal list of Critters I Have Been Bitten By, I would laugh til I cried if a player in my game argued they could pick up any tiny (and in this case, hostile) creature as a free action with no attack roll required. I suspect cat owners would be...

When it comes to writing (as opposed to other creative industries like filmmaking, video game production where the budget/investment is much higher and the teams much bigger), it can often be true that 'made by committee' primarily means 'someone who needed an editor, got an editor'. And that's...

Giant Snail, from Witchlight? Only 22hp though, same as a reef shark, so might not be enough for your purposes.

My favourite thing at the time (and I've been pleased to see that it's remained so over the decades since Eberron first appeared) was the explicit refusal to get involved in the metaplot/novel-based plot progression that had blighted so many of TSRs worlds, from FR to Dragonlance and Dark sun...

If the FR wiki is to be believed (it sources portraits from this art piece for its pages on some of the Sundering characters), the woman in red next to Elminster is in fact Arietta rather than Amarune, the dark-haired guy 2nd from the left is Dahl, and the one with the shield in front of Cale is...

If I had to guess, I suspect the white-haired woman to the far left might be Storm Silverhand. Edit: the Red Wizard is Umara Ankhlab, and I suspect the blond boy standing in front of her is probably Stedd Whitehorn. Another edit: I would have assumed that the blonde woman next to Elminster...

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...