Recent content by Paul Farquhar

It's pretty much central to the plot. The antagonists want to control Paul using a clone of his childhood friend as bait.

Err, no one can make you buy video games!

Yes, I think that too. Same idea, but rather than tie the magical effects to tattoos they run of spell slots instead.

The product isn't due till Autumn. 8 months is more than enough time. We have had significantly shorter turn-arounds than that.

If it's good enough and cheep enough, people will buy it. If it's not good enough or not cheep enough, people won't buy it. Where is the problem?

And that’s the thing - it’s a video game, it meant to move about and do stuff, it’s not meant to be a portrait to hang on the wall and admire. How good does it need to be when the gamer is only intended to give it a passing glance?

I can’t tell that by looking. You didn’t provide any context. There was nothing to indicate the image was supposed to be dark or horror themed. And the left image is a pretty bad “dark” image - you realise human colour vision doesn’t work in low light?! She also has sausage fingers. I would...

And it goes the other way - any non-specific content goes in the Forgotten Realms.

Sure, absolutely true. What AU won’t have is content that is only for the adventure, or only for the Forgotten Realms setting. And of course, the adventure will be completely playable without AU, it just won’t have the thematic player options.

No, it’s exactly the opposite. For that, the adventure came first, and had accompanying player facing crunch packaged separately. And that was a failed idea, they ended up giving it away. This is crunch first - necessary crunch, given that backwards compatibility currently means you need the...

Not really, no. The primary purpose of AU is to restore the specialist wizard subclasses and spells from 5.0 that didn't make it into the PHB for reasons of time and space. It's the main event, the adventure is the supplement.

Err, yes? There might be all sorts of ethical and practical issues around this software, but all I see are two CGI images. The left hand image is rather dark, the right hand image is better lit.

It’s a bit late for any further subclasses to be playtested for AU/Deadfall in any case. Not impossible, but unlikely that we will see any that haven’t been tested yet.

Given the short length of the adventure and it's connection to a book containing player options, I very much doubt it will have any itself. AU has the tools to make, say, a Thayan Wizard, using a combination of specialist wizard and the new feats. No need for an actual subclass. Background...

The adventure appears to involve the factions from AU. So it would make sense for the PCs to have a background associated with that faction from AU. But it won’t be required. However everything you need to run a specific NPC member of that faction will need to be in Deadfall. My view is that AU...