Recent content by Parmandur

Somewhat academic, since 30 MPH is the actual speed in the game.

Yeah, from a quick search 30 MPH for the lightning rail is the usual quoted speed , apparently, not 10.

Jumping off something going 10 MPH is not terribly smart. Lookong into it, however, seems the consistent speed in Eberron products is 30 MPH.

The war setting has a bit of a pist-WWI interwar vibe, but the war itself was not exactly WWI, it lasted over a hundred years, more like the Thirty Years War on steroids. And the genre of fiction being emulated is like 1870s-1920s. Westerns lr King Solomons Mine stuff.

On the other hand, the train being watchable sets up pulp scenarios like a raptor Halfling raid.

It's about re reading a certain 19th century vibe, ti a large extent.

A horse drawn carriage is between 5-8 MPH, so a low maintenance steady 10 MPH transport method would be economically transformative.

For anyone who didn't back the Stormlight Kickstarter, Brotherwise is participating in the Bits & Mortar program, so anyone who gets the books thru your FLGS can get the PDFs for free: https://bits-and-mortar.com/publisher/brotherwise-games Thwre ia also a sale for the books on Demiplane right...

When Jordan does fast travel, he makes it interesting and dwells on the different implications, using his nuclear physics background. It escalates on thst front, but fast travel introduces new logistical challenges as well as opportunities. The thing that ultimately really messes Perrin up...

More Princess of Mars than Gamma World (six limbed insect folk included), and ofdy the main point of Dark Sun was to show off the Battlesystem mass combat expansion of AD&D. Honestly, room for both. From WotC point of view, Oz is conveniently in the public domain and not subject to trademark...

On the first...I have very little doubt in my midn that WotC won't bring over all the remaining Gygax Advrbture models into 5E at some point, and by all accounts I've heard the Wonderland stuff is Gygax at his best. And they already talked about Gamma World explicitly on the DMgm a Gamma World...

I don't know if they will continue to keep it subtle and open to interpretation in this book proper, but the 3E obsession with bespoke cosmology for each Settibg just doesn't fit with D&D at this point. Eberron getting a distinct cosmology locally as a distinct expression of the First World...

Is it a Master tier subscriber deal?

Which does match with what the designers were laying down as the core books released.

How...does the Lightning Rail Bastion work?