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if you take a step back, 4E was really class-less system, you could take any power from any class at specific level and not break...

I believe they also have a game like Witcher 3 in development (and a game like Diablo, and a game like Tomb Raider). This one is...

Elric calls on literal gods who can affect entire universes with his knowledge and bargains his kin made. He calls on far more than any...

More specifically, an anti-Conan. The decadent heir to a decaying civilisation (British Empire with the numbers filed off) he very much...

Wellllll.... Elric was designed, deliberately, by Moorcock, as the antithesis of the Sword and Sorcery character. Physically weak...

Gameplay that just breaks down to a series of dice rolls isn’t really desirable. You might as well reduce it to “the engines break down...

You should. Icewind Dale (game) tells a better story than any of the novels. I’ve lifted quite a bit from it for my tabletop game.

Micheal Moorcock coined the term, I think he knew what he meant by it.

I would agree with all of this. There were a few things I struggled with when I first played DA2. The first combat I entered watching...

This is more a description of what you like, rather than the generally accepted definition.

It’s really just The Crystal Shard (1988), the first and least bad of the Drizzt novels, that is set in Icewind Dale. The eponymous...

Well it depends on your perspective. I know very little and don't care about Drizzt. I know of Icewind Dale because it is part of the...

I don't find it that odd that the adventure would be placed after all the world stuff. I don't have the book though so maybe I am...

This. Oh my God this! 2nd edition settings tried to bludgeon you into the genre tropes with major changes to the game, almost always...