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After around 110 pages' worth of draft posts and who knows how many hours' worth of writing, the Magocracy of Ansalon is done! I finished making 2 out of the 6 official alternate Dragonlance timelines from Legends of the Twins! I feel very accomplished and satisfied right now. May be a bit...

Chapter 7: Friends & Foes Below are various new NPCs suitable for the Magocracy of Ansalon timeline. They can also be reflavored for other timelines and settings without much work, particularly for representing a wide variety of spellcasters. Harrow the Ninth by Tommy Arnold From enchanters...

Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (3e) Silver Marches (3e) Underdark (3e) Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms (system-neutral) Magic of Faerûn (3e) #1 and #4 do a stellar job of highlighting the Realms. #2 and #3 detail regions I DMed the hell out of and have lots of hooks. #5...

This has happened a few times in my D&D games, but not enough to be anywhere near the standard. Orcs, drow, etc are semi-common options, but they are usually mixed in with more conventional elves, humans, and the like. An "all monster" campaign is overall very rare. Way back in the 3.5 days I...

MichaelSomething is a DungeonTube agent, stirring up tensions between WotC and ENWorld so that they can claim precious fandom resources and subscriber counts in contested territories. The only bloc capable of ensuring D&D's sovereignty is the Confederation of Subreddits. Their values are much...

Chapter 6: Gamemastering in the Age of Magic Dragon Library by Charles Urbach This chapter covers relevant information for Dungeon Masters running Dragonlance campaigns in the Magocracy of Ansalon. Beyond just general advice, there’s also new additions for the Bastion sub-system as seen in...

It's been over a month since I last posted here. Here's my update: I finished reading Dragonbane. While it does look to have some neat stuff, it didn't overly wow me. The sample adventure seemed quite neat, although I'm not really feeling the idea of monster attacks being randomly-determined by...

Chapter 5: Lands of the Six Towers, Part 3 Solace, by Mondcuow Lands of Wayreth: Due to its distance from Solamnia and Istar, southwest Ansalon became a prime destination for mages fleeing the persecution of the Kingpriest. After the loss of the Towers of Istar, Losarcum, and Daltigoth, the...

Every review and homebrew I write is drafted first into a Google Doc. That way I don't have to worry about losing hours' worth of work in case my internet disconnects or power goes out before I hit "post reply."

Chapter 5: Lands of the Six Towers, Part 2 Messenger by Lucas Staniec Lands of Palanthas: Ever since their valiant struggle against the Dark Queen's armies during the Third Dragonwar, Solamnia long held the vaunted reputation of being the strongest bastion of Good on Ansalon. Even when Istar...

Chapter 5: Lands of the Six Towers, Part One Fantasy Landscape by Shuxing Li Thanks to the ease of magic-enhanced communication and travel, what would have been smaller independent kingdoms and city-states in other timelines became six expansive nations in the Magocracy of Ansalon. Each...

Speak of the devil, I also reviewed this one too! Sadly, I am not as much of a fan of this one.

There's a 5e adventure path with a setting based on Hawaii called the Sunken Isles. I did an in-depth review for it back in 2023. As for my overall thoughts, it's...okay. It has the potential to be a cool campaign, but it has a lot of things holding it back.

This isn't going to be the largest of posts, for quite a bit of the Appendices' content have been covered earlier as part of the relevant posts for this review. We get five Appendices covering material that doesn't fit neatly into any of the prior chapters. Appendix A: Timeline in Sands of Doom...

Chapter 4: New Player Options Following are various new options created for play in this timeline. The new subclasses are designed in mind for the 2024 rules of 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons and using Subclasses Revivified for balance comparison and inspiration. They can work for other...