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Polygon recently had an interview with Ed Greenwood about the project. In it, Greenwood talks about how the series seeks to examine the Dalelands via a "personal eye view" rather than the big-picture perspective common to other Forgotten Realms books. Other regions beyond the Dalelands are in...

Rules for Player Characters: Classes Much like how Heroes of Tara uses its own Tribes in places of typical fantasy races and species, so too does it use its own classes. There are far fewer, with 3 base and 1 optional: the Fennid, a a member of a ranger-esque society known as the Fianna who...

If we are talking about AI in terms of Large Language Models and machines trained on art that don't compensate the writers/artists in question, I am against it and do my best to not patronize such products.

I believe I said as much in another thread (or site, can't keep track), but I personally don't have much faith in Wizards of the Coast handling Dark Sun in a thoughtful manner. This is mostly due to seeing their earlier bungles of worlds, like Spelljammer. That being said, I still want an...

Rules For Player Characters: Tribes Now that we covered some of the fluff, it's time to dive into the crunch! This section's chapters provide all of the necessary tools for PC generation in a mythical Ireland. But the rules aren't merely an extension of the 5th Edition Player's Handbook: they...

Ériu in the Present Now that we covered Ériu's past, the rest of this section details it in the present. Social Structure is our next entry. The island has a population of about 300,000 people, minus the Aes Sidhe and other faeries. There's a distinct lack of urban centers, with most...

I've been doing Let's Reads for about a decade now, and I figured that it would be convenient to make a single thread compiling them all. I will add to this thread as I finish more reviews. I am aware that due to a certain image website's blockage of the UK, that a lot of the old uploaded...

Drive-Thru RPG Storefront Page Edition Note: This product was written for the 2014 version of 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons. Historical fantasy settings have been around since tabletop's beginning, but the advent of the Open Gaming License saw a marked increase as people began adapting the...

Book 4, Chapter 9: Shelob’s Lair Even bereft of sight, Tolkien manages to do a great job in making the lightless cave of Shelob descriptive, from the foul miasma sapping at the hobbits’ will to their deadened sense of time from being unable to know how far they journey to how much longer they...

Post-Review Thoughts on Efreeti Slavery So, one more thing that entered my thoughts for this post-review post. It was brought up by Ramien on RPGnet, asking if the Tomes ever address the fact that the Wish Economy is built around the enslavement of rather powerful beings. And furthermore, that...

D&D serves me well for straightforward heroic fantasy with a visible sense of power progression. If I want something grittier but still has that dungeon-crawling fantasy aspect, a lot of OSR clones are ideal choices. If I want something with more character customization options or on the...

The Book of Gears This pseudo-chapter follows the earlier Tome formats in being collected essays about the mechanics and world-building of D&D 3.5. The topics of focus mainly concern character advancement, gold and treasure, and other subjects of material substance such as traps and constructs...

Chapter 13: Adventuring This chapter is quite fluff-heavy, primarily covering dungeons, fantasy ecologies, and adventure ideas and inspirations for planar travel. We first start out with the Socialnomicon, a collection of essays discussing the normalization of violence in D&D and how that...

So I'm going to be wrapping up my review of the Frank and K Tomes soon (have 2 posts to go), so I've been interested in reviewing some more 3.5 products. I figured to ask here and other places to get a bit of a read on what people might find interesting for me to cover. I have 8 products in...

Thank you, I am happy to see so many others are enjoying my readthrough. I do plan to do other books. I'm not one for making promises, but here are some novels I'm interested in covering in a similar fashion: Bram Stoker's Dracula The Inheritance Cycle (aka Eragon series) by Christopher...