Recent content by Paul Farquhar

I hope it isn’t Dark Sun, because if they think it can be summed up as “Champions” they have really very seriously failed to understand the setting! But it has to be an adventure, since 5.5 will be two years old at that point and only have one and a half adventures, and none of significant...

They were working on the red wizard adventure long before they started work on the new FR books. It got put on hold in the rush to get the 2024 rules out on time, and has now been repurposed to accompany Arcane Unleashed, a core rules supplement focusing on arcane magic classes. Neither product...

There is nothing to connect Arcana Unleashed to that region aside from the use of a word that is slightly more common in D&D than “the”. It’s a crunch book not a setting book. Deadfall mentions Arcana Unleashed, but Arcana Unleashed makes no mention of Deadfall, or Thay, or the Forgotten...

I think you are reading way too much much into that. Unless it means Thay has already conquered the entire region. It’s not like “arcane” isn’t a word that is used pretty much all the time in D&D. Funny you should mention that. Read the background for the Covenant of the Grave faction (bottom...

Infinite Staircase has shown that the current staff can do really good updates to old adventures.

Looking at what they have and haven’t released prior, and the absence of a UA, it pretty much has to be an adventure (even if it’s not DL).

I think you are letting your own desire to see Agalrond in the game obscure your better judgment. I can’t see any wizard from Agalrond belonging to the same faction of Szass Tam.

I don’t see why they would need to have to have any UA stuff for Dragonlance - DL1 launched under core rules (aside from kender).

???!!!!! Photobombing?

Further inspection of the alt cover: I think the head on the left might be a bone devil rather than undead. Demons and devils and liches (oh my)!

Another observation: assuming that is Szass Tam on the standard cover, his forehead tattoos have been changed to include the Covenant of the Grave symbol. These haven’t been portrayed consistently in past illustrations. This iconography doesn’t just suggest that the PCs might be Thayan, it...

Which may suggest that it isn’t the PCs who bring about his fall.

They were very much “magic” versions of those classes, especially the ones in the Mystic UA. Consider the paladin, that was very much the sort of wizard police you might find in Thay.

It’s a background faction visible in the text on the preview photograph of Arcana Unleashed. It comes with the Arcane Undertaker origin feet. The Cosmic Dawn is also visible, with the Transmuted Anatomy feet. The others have their names obscured, but there appears to be one for each of the...

Indeed there was, glad I’m not the only person to remember it!