Recent content by Parmandur

There is a dragon empire to the West, according to some versions, so a diaspora of small Dragonborn communities and rare individuals from beyond the Flannaes seems reasonable, or from anywhere frankly, there is no shortage of Dragons. Did a little bit of rabbit hole deep dive in my secondhand...

OK, so in the interest of pricanalhsis, the delivery edition is actually quite a fair value: $40 for the 200 page book and cards: actually a great price 12 rhombic dohecahedrons: dair price I could find since these are rare was $2.50 for a single die or $10 for 5, so this is a legit $25 value...

So, a major portion of the world building in the Greyhawk boxed set uses random encounter tables set by nation or geographical region to establish what can be expected where (and triangles show where a lot of Gnomes, Dwarves, and Halflinfs are), but even these are meant to be supplemental to the...

For sure, but it is pretty easy to slide Dragonborn, Aasamir, Tieflings, and Goliaths in there alongside them. There are already dragons, giants, fiends, and celwstials ar work.

Well, it's an advantage to anyone who buys a hard copy book if this material gets repressed down the line. And they fixed it quickly, so people who paid to playtest did not wait long, I guess.

Completely different, yes. Gary Gygax was by all accounts a very dynamic DM, but the novels...less dynamic. I love the Forgotten Realms as a worldbuilding exercise, but I'm sorry...that sentence is damning with faint praise. Great DM, great spinner of world details. Probably a fantastic...

He who controls the past, controls the present. Bit of a difference between a casually dashed off forum post and something like Spellfire.

Todd makes the good point that the book has a certain "Xanathar's Guide to Everything" energy. Mercer gives a really good pitch of the freaking cards.