Recent content by Hussar

Oh, I totally agree. Since they were doing a lot of recycling in 5e, it's not surprising that later elements have gotten short shrift. And, IIRC, the Dragon Queen adventures were being written before the 5e PHB had hit the streets, so, the writers may not have even known if dragonborn were...

Hrm, it is interesting to think what elements would you need for a "2024 D&D" setting: 1. All PHB races actually represented in the setting. That means you have dragonborn nations as well as various other species. 2. Class representation. Warlocks, for example. Clerics have churches...

I dunno how anyone could complain about Saltmarsh. There are zero dragonborn (although there is a dragonborn in one of the pictures) and the only tiefling is a trader from Iuz. That's it. In the entire module. Hoard of the Dragon Queen, as I mentioned, has half dragons, but zero dragonborn...

Huh. I'm running Out of the Abyss. Zero Dragonborn or tieflings. Ghosts of Saltmarsh, 1 tiefling, zero dragonborn. Candlekeep Mysteries, IIRC, 1 dragonborn, 0 Tieflings. Waterdeep Dragonheist, 0 dragonborn or tieflings that I recall. Phandelver - 0 dragonborn or tieflings. And while...

Really, I think this says it all right here. The problem with so many of the earlier settings is that 5 has added a LOT of options on the player side that have serious world building implications - new races being a prime example - that the older settings largely ignore. Dragonborn, despite...

My problem with the mashup is that the two settings, apart from sharing very little by way of geography or history, share nothing in terms of theme. Dragonlance is pretty bog standard epic fantasy. It's not concerned with any of the things that Dark Sun is concerned with. It's exactly the...

Probably the most Dungeons and Dragons scene that is not in any way related to Dungeons and Dragons. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fb4wnxd13o98f1.gif%3Fwidth%3D480%26format%3Dmp4%26s%3D5e39dd937740ca247a2b595f1282b2bd0481a1e5

Why would you ever want to mix those two particular settings? They share nothing thematically. Like, literally nothing.

Heh. Again, trying to be fair and balanced. I've used Rols 20 and had good experiences with it. It ran an Ironsworn campaign on it and it worked really well. And there are some really good things about it. tabbed windows being one of the best features. Not having massive numbers of...

Again, even after reading the article, there isn't a whole lot new here. This has been hashed out here on these boards and elseward a bunch of times over the last ten or fifteen years. It started, IMO, with the shift in D&D art and then has spread to the rest of the game. The fact that this...

There is another element here as well. So much of the stuff that went on in the hobby for a very long time went very much unexamined. It was accepted without question by a lot of the fandom and dissenting voices that were trying to point out issues were largely ignored. That worm has turned...

Again, too be fair, the issue is hardly one that's new and no one's ever heard of. This has been long documented and discussed. It's been sort of in the news recently because of the increased scrutiny of the history of the hobby. And, Mr. Musk's comment about wanting Hasbro to "burn in Hell"...

To be fair, it is behind a paywall, which does make it rather hard to read. But, yeah, this is a fairly perennial issue. LIke the mythical hydra, you cut off one head and two grow. We point out facts, complete with actual direct evidence and people STILL insist that it never happened or it's...

Well, sort of. I mean, the issues in SF and Fantasy genre circles predate by a LOOONG time the notion of pandering to the algorithm. F&SF have long been the "boys club" genre. You seen this in so much of 20th century genre fiction and circles. That it exists in D&D and RPG circles is not...

I think one needs to understand that while, yes, this stuff absolutely existed in the hobby and fantasy fandom at large, it is such a small part of the fandom. I don't believe that this was ever the predominant viewpoint in the hobby or the fandom, but, rather evidence of a small subset that...