Recent content by Parmandur

A cosmic war between powerful magic using heros could work for a Campaign with high-octane "Mystic" character options on the table. Also a venue where anything can happen in the timely-whiney shenanigans.

No, I'm suggesting that they could use it for some cross media integration if they matched it with a D&D product.

It is an intriguing possibility. Some of the Magic crossovers have been great, and I'm not sure WotC has a strong reason at this point not to more aggressively mix the properties.

In October 2026, Magic the Gathering has a big capstone Set, Reality Fracture, that is going to be a fat "muktiverse shaking event"...and these high magic concepts would fit well in a Magic crossover.

Oh, go figure. Still, I doubt the design was built around recreating that, either. "I have this build for a pet Warlock!" and someone on the team happened to remember the vestige bit.

Well, what did Forge of the Artificer have? It had Subclasses and Backgrounds for player stuff, then for DMs it had Bastions, magic items, Monster statblocks, and Campaign Frames. I could easily see a short book with Ravenloft Subclasses and Backgrounds, along with Bastions, magic items, Monster...

Given that many of the main designers at this point started with 5E...I doubt this originated as an attempt to replicate a Binder. Someone probably thought it would be fun to explore a Pet Warlock, and then they found the Vestige term that hasn't been used or twenty years and several editions to...

Having more Subclasses than Van Richten's, while also updating all the options from Van Richten's, would work well for a Ravenloft product like unto Forge of the Artificer. And all the other hints around Ravenloft make that seem a likely guess. And not incompatible for the Subclass options to be...

I mean, being a Warlock instead of a Druid. Much like the Mystic Monk is a Monk instead of a Fighter. I actually wish they would do more such overlaps for Subclasses, to allow more combos of Class and Subclass designs.

Not bad thinking, but it seems easy enough to combine the Update Book with the Arcane & Mystic new options as simply the next Everything book (or equivalent major update in a new format).

Who knows, but if you cuss in the search it will circumvent the AI result (like "how do I make a cussing burrito" will give you traditional search results).

Good stories in games are pretty rare, to be honest. Which makes sense, as a medium they are not really necessary, like car chases in a movie: nice to have, but a great movie doesn't need to have a car chase.

The reason in the podcast was organic discussion, IIRC: contrasting where D&D was before 5E launched with mature 5E.

My old FLGS was pretty well stocked, though mainly a board game and comic book store, but after moving cross-country my new FLGS is astonishingly well stocked. They have D&D and Pathfinder, sure, Call of Cthulu and Traveller, Shadowdark and Daggerjeart...bit also What is Old is New, Free League...

Racnica and Theros.