Recent content by Parmandur

Thwt matches all our historical sales data across editiona: a hige number of D&D players just buy the core rules and roll with them.

Thanks for the conversation starter! I was taken aback by what a large percentage all three new core books have in about 1 year, compared to 11 for 2014 rules.

Really hard to say: reviews were good, but it released just as the wheels came off of the 4E business model.

2024 rules or RAW Moldvay-Cook B/X, the latter being OD&D perfected.

The Spelljamming rules matched the existing nautical rules.

I reckon any product will follow 4Es exa.ple, and have the base of operations the newly Free City of Tyr.

It is so bizarre to me that people are fixated on the loomong threat of WotC not depicting slavery...when they continue to include slavery as bad guys behavior year after year.

Whaaaaaaaaat, you don't say. I don't knownif we can assume that, I am sure the poster would be more than willong to explain what they meant and clear that up.

I was juat curious, the themes of the show are all straight from Tolkien, soooooooooooooooooo...

And Curse of Strahd...and Spelljammer. But anything released in the next two years will probavly still have Perkins and Crawfords fingerprints, given the production timeliness. Mofe likely the earlier changes in management over them changed the possibilities of what could be done.

What "propeganda" specifically are you referring to in Rings of Power?

It is extremely hard to casually spoil the Wheel of Time, due to the sheer complexity of what happens. A lot of stories can be spoiled off-hand, but it would require a massive careful essay to effectively spoil Memory of Light. The ending is very solid, worth checking out.

Just started Katabasis by R. F. Kuang...already in the first few pages, this may be the smartest book I've read since Jonathan Strang & Mr. Norrel.

The ending is extraordinarily satisfying.

I'd pit them at about the same level, both had a similar mastery of irony and humor though Jordan was more dry and arch. Generally Jordan had a stronger mastery of setting and perspective, Pratchett better wordplay. The two of them each take up a lot of shelf real estate, all of it worth the space.