Recent content by Nobleshield

I never actually cared for Dragonlance EXCEPT for Lord Soth being awesome. I have fond memories of a teen reading "Knight of the Black Rose" after finishing my classwork.

IMHO online play should be the exception, not the rule. So focusing on it is bad at the exclusion of playing in person.

The fact that they are calling them "Cast Members" like it's freaking Disney and not "Players" like they're actually playing a game makes me think this will be more fake Critical Role-esque "actors playing people who are playing D&D" junk rather than a real actual play.

Very excited about some sort of organized play again since AL has gone to only specific areas/cons. I am a minority owner in a game store, and the number of people who come in every week asking us, "Do you guys have D&D games going on?" is quite high, but we have no organized play support...

Quite excited to see what they might do to make 5.5e feel more like older style D&D, as that's my biggest issue with the revision.

They wouldn't need a fully fleshed-out world, IMHO, just enough of a starter to let DMs flesh things out. Think what they did with Nentir Vale in 4e or the Expert set that fleshed out some stuff about Karameikos and the surrounding areas of the Known World (or the original Greyhawk, for that...

That's technically Eberron, but yeah, while I like medieval fantasy settings, I agree. Keep those settings for people who like that, and build a setting from scratch to embrace the normal things (and then, for example, like Greyhawk/FR/etc, could pick and choose what's allowed. Greyhawk might...

Modules would be great for facilitating "league" play at a game store, since they seem to have completely abandoned the Adventurer's League and organized play for 5.5e, outside of like 1-2 conventions only. They could even be like those multi-part modules in the old days where you could play...

The last new setting they had, they dumped despite it actually being quite good, because 4e wasn't well-received. I will die on the hill that Nentir Vale was a great setting, actually had Dragonborn and Tieflings that fit in seamlessly (unlike how Tieflings kept their 4e look in 5e instead of...

That art style is decent, my personal feelings about her being a black elf notwithstanding. I do find a lot of the art in the new books is hit or miss. Some are decent, but some look like the sort of thing someone would commission for their World of Warcraft character off of DeviantArt. They can...

The above is the art I'm thinking of, but I'm firmly in the camp that Elves should be pale/white-skinned (Drow excluded), in the style of Tolkien, who was influenced by Scandinavian folklore (see also Poul Anderson). But that's neither here nor there, and I will add that art is just terrible...

What's also interesting to me is the comment that they would print more modules. We could do with a series of modules like the old style, not just Adventure Path books.

I liked it until I saw inexplicably making Yolande (I think it was Yolande) black, changing the Prince of Ulek to a Princess... the name changes I didn't care about since it was either obvious it'd be changed (Plains of the Paynims) or it's using the actual name, not the "common" name (Frost...

The guy on X is part of Luke's team.

I have no idea, why? Do you think he's lying?