Recent content by Paul Farquhar

They are status symbols, fashion accessories, and phallic though. And should you be attacked by ruffians whist in a car, it will kill them quite effectively.

Fighting duels, and as a fashion accessory. Like the "longsword" its basically phallic. "I see your shwartz is as big as mine." The technology required to make rapiers isn't all that advanced. They start to appear as a cultural thing, not a technological thing.

In the same way that a car is a real weapon. You can kill people with it, but it’s not really what it’s designed for.

It’s not really a “weapon” at all. It’s sports equipment, just like full plate. It’s true for many of the things in D&D - they aren’t particularly good for killing humans, never mind dragons. Consider modern military - what do they carry? Daggers, knives, bayonets (aka pointy sticks). Despite...

“Longsword” type weapons didn’t see much use as a weapon of war during any historical period. Neither did rapiers. In both cases they are more flashy toys for rich people to show off with. For fighting dragons, I would choose firearms. But legend has it the much-maligned spiked armour is effective.

I say bring back the 3rd edition double headed flail.

Rapier concealed in a cane is very on brand for Eberron.

It was Magnifico in the books. Making it Bayta feels too topical to this year, and seems like a last minute change, poorly explained, to me. How did Second Foundation agent guy not notice anything, since he knew her already? How did Bayta-Mule not pick up anything about the 2nd Foundation from...

Riffing on that, a Ravenloft domain.

Ghosts of Saltmarsh functions just as well in the Forgotten Realms. Any collection of generic fantasy adventures works as well in any generic fantasy setting. The more recent adventures have mostly been setting-agnostic, I expect that to continue.

A great time for worldbuilding. But I have little confidence in the writers ability to do that - I expect everything will be reset back to plucky rebels vs evil empire, with the names changed. Again.

A remake of Waterworld. How can this fail?

Probably about the same time Errol Flynn started playing Robin Hood (set around 1200).

They did one in the 5e era, set in Baldur’s Gate, with Minsc & co. But that is D&D in Clue, not Clue in D&D.

It’s twice as far it is from London to Paris and they are quite culturally distinct too.