Recent content by Parmandur

Forget non-binary, Cthulu is non-Euclidian. I'm sure that conversation would give Lovecraft hives beyond the grave.

If they don’t really have system mastery, then there is nothing to lose, but the new presentation might help them. Go for it, or at least let them use the new books and mix and match, it really isn't much of a big deal at all.

It is co-branded with a Forgotten Realms book already, and WotC has decades of proof at this point that making specifically Forgotten Realms products that can be repurposed easily will get them the most money. At any rate, I expect there are elements they haven't hinted at yet, and that they...

Probably because they think people Wil stomach paying $80 for two smaller books better than $80 for one larger book.

That’s a thin reed to make overall assumptions, considered it is being co-b handed with the Thay Adventure Campaign.

We don't see much of the block, and I'm sure it has some eldritch surprises.

Nope, I make no such assumption at all since the pr view images show us material that was not tested (4 Backgrounds, 3 Feats, and 3 Spells at least last confirmed). However, for Subclasses and Classes they have not released anything that did not go through UA since March 2020 for Wildemount...

In what basis do you day that? They are specifically being sold together as a pair with tied titles, and the Adventure tied to Arcana Unleashed takes place in an area WotC specifically decided to call the "Arcane Empires" a few months ago into he new main FR book.

Cthulu is memorable and a esthetically interesting, and Call of Cthulu is a particularly strong story.

The crunch we know is in there doesn't seem to justify the page count by itself.

Yeah, and I'm not saying it would be the equivalent of the FR Setting book: but it might the equivalent of one of he Chapters of the FR Setting Book.

A subclass is like 2 pages, a background is half a pahe, that plus some Spells are what we have confirmed for this book will not take up the whole page count by a long shot.

Based on the prices, this appears to be the thicker book.

Wouldn't surprise me if it does a deeper dive on the Arcane Empires.