Recent content by Paul Farquhar

This is voting on something that WotC are never going to make anyway, so you may as well vote for what you want.

You get a saving throw to avoid dying.

Krynn did this first, but for most tables such detailed date tracking is impractical. It was dropped (unless you really want to track it) for reasons of fun, not game rules. Manifest Zones are setting details, rather than something that affects how spellcasting rules work. Dragonshards do...

Canadians are too nice to be Bond.

Realistically, the artificer will probably be reprinted (minus cartographer plus reanimator) in a 2026 full sized book, so if that’s all you are interested in there isn’t much point in buying this Eberron mechanics patch.

Using a different survivor each series would be a way to extend it to multiple series. Having rewatched episode one I’m fairly convinced the virus is not a weapon (or if it was it destroyed its creators long ago). Nor is it sentient separate to its host species. Hence its random and self...

Well it is the first Doctor Who I remember watching, and my rose-tinted nostalgia goggles tell me it’s still awesome.

Indeed. Tieflings became popular (breaking out from Planescape all on their own) even when they were mechanically weaksauce. Which shows cosmetics matter as much as power.

I’m sure there is a copy chained up in a secret vault in Miskatonic University library.

Yes, although they also went into hibernation at the same time as the silurians (also not their proper name) to survive the same catastrophe, and their revival procedures failed until human tech activated them.* I’m surprised the show didn’t make this clear, but the BBC has put out an edited...

What?! And miss the car crash?!

There were a lot of really WTF were they smoking decisions made about 4e Forgotten Realms that drove the point home that blowing up the setting every time a new edition comes out is a very very bad idea.

You can make them different if you want too - “our elves are different” is even a well known trope (tropes that are used too much are called cliches). But you are probably not going to want to different-ise everything in the PHB. That makes the setting lose focus. Eberron sometimes sails a bit...

It’s a forum, of course opinion, and I dislike false modesty. Sometimes (most of the time) you need to abandon the old ones, and focus on the current ones. Andor. All Coke is revolting. Sticking “new” in the label just caused people to notice. Stick an “Old” label on the same stuff and your...

No, Spelljammer was poorly executed, lacked content and had ship combat rules that are simply not fun. There changes to the setting (such as getting rid of the sillly phlo stuff) were improvements. And VGR fixed a lot of the stupidities that were introduced in the 2nd edition boxed set. It’s an...