Paul Farquhar's latest activity

Subclasses are a set of mechanics, lore has nothing to do with it. I’m quite happy to work with players to refluff whatever they want so...

This is the sort of interpretation of polytheism that I find irritating in D&D. People do not select a god and worship them. They make a...

Greyhawk is generic, any Forgotten Realms adventure can be set there, just change a few names. And anyway, how many adventures have...

does anyone else see the irony in creating a 'new' 5e pantheon entirely out of old gods?

I saw that irony, as well as trotting out the same old 1970s Christian polytheism model for region rather than doing something creative.

Ah, that player has played lots of exotic characters since. Even that character was a half orc.

Misspost.

For the first couple of years SCAG was the only setting book available, so that was the only place they could set adventures. But they...

Yeah, only the rich and powerful got tombs. It’s not surprising that some of the many poor people decided some wealth redistribution was...

Rarely are the tombs worth raiding those of innocent people. 😉 I'm sure ancient Egypt had laws against tomb looting that had similarly...

This is actually, completely untrue. The last couple of years WotC has published 1 Sword Coast adventure and about 9 set elsewhere.

We don’t know that past civilisations weren’t more advanced than what we have now. The more advanced the technology, the more...

If you want to skip the centuries of picking up the pieces of what was lost after Rome, sure, we’re better off now than we were...

Countercounterargument. There is no customer base definition. The base is way to fractured on what it thinks and perceives for there...

Settings are not edition dependent, though. I have run a 5e campaign using 2e Ravenloft. With no issues.