Recent content by Misanthrope Prime

In the last few years one of my family members became a Hellenic neopagan, my nextdoor neighbors are self identified Heathens and I went on a few dates with a Kemeticist, and I always thought it was weird that I could fight and kill their gods but I couldn't put the boots to Jesus Christ. Then...

Tell that to Mielikki and Loviatar.

It's stated that Chessenta, Mulhorand and Unther are ruled by "living gods"; part of me wonders if they may retcon the Mulhorandi and Untheric pantheons to no longer be literally from Earth. I also wonder if the Greek gods are going to pop up in Chessenta, or if Tchazzar somehow became a living...

You are aware that orcs also came from another planet, right? In fact they also first came to Toril in the old Empires; the orcs coming to Mulhorand and the Dragonborn coming to Unther aren't that different.

There are some explicitly D&D themed bands that I just listen to in rotation. To wit:

I am 100% confident that WotC is not going to put a genocide or ethnic cleansing in their books. If they do not end up with their own country or a minority of Unther, there'll probably be some large dragonborn diaspora which explains why we've seen art of Cormyryian Dragonborn PDKs.

Dark Sun descends most directly from the "Dying Earth" subgenre of postapocalyptic fantasy popularized and named after the series by Jack Vance; it's where we get the term "Vancian magic" from to refer to D&D's style of spellcasting. There's not that much dying Earth fantasy out there aside from...

Does it bother anyone else that the metamorph's bone blade isn't light so they can't TWF? Whenever I think of characters in fiction who shapeshift their limbs into weapons like Carnage from Spider-Man, they frequently change both hands and engage in "two weapon fighting", and I'm kinda miffed...

They got plenty of attention in SCAG and there's art of Dragonborn all over this book. The Brimstone Angels series ended with a returned Enlil considering Dragonborn "his" chosen people, I wouldn't be surprised if Tymanther and Unther merged and the Dragonborn just make up a significant minority...

At this point I'm less surprised when a D&D game actually launches. Prior to August 2023 I was entirely ready for BG3 to be canceled with only the Early Access to show for it.

I actually love Dragon's Milk and would love that dice tower but $109 for it is steep. I don't suppose I can get a discount if I turn in a bunch of empty cans or bottlecaps?

Yeah, this alone is why I'm in favor of psionics as spells. I can barely remember the rules for magic, combat, skill checks and whatever macro and micro scale lore is going on in my campaign at any moment; should I really be memorizing an entire parallel rule system for the benefit of one...

Entry #1 on the mixtape:

FR has enough fans to justify two books, and it was the setting of a smash hit video game and we'll regarded film, I sincerely doubt enough people remember Dark Sun to buy two books on it, and the setting is a bit less attractive to newcomers than FR.