Recent content by Paul Farquhar

These two are interesting, the only domain labelled slasher in VGR was Valachan, and occult detective stories was the Varge Agency (which I think was cool, but it wasn’t really fleshed out). I ran a slasher in the Carnival though, and I guess occult detectives might be found in Innsmouth.

Sithicus isn’t a new domain, it’s an old domain that wasn’t in VGR. Innsmouth is new - it has never been in any previous product. They are putting Soth front and centre in the marketing, and we have seen his page. He isn’t not going to be in the book, and therefore his domain is in too. The...

Rather than the Book of Vile Darkness it's the Book of Mildly Distasteful Twilight.

Quite. For the most part I'm not expecting significant changes to most stat blocks. Why would there be? WotC did do some recalculation on the maths underlying CR, which would explain the damage change. Zombie Limbs are also in this pack, and have bigger changes, losing grasping limbs (I assume...

The text says the gallows are beside the bridge, which I assume is the one crossing the river rather than one of the two connecting raised areas. It's not marked though. I would put it on the north bank where there is a clear spot to the left of the track. The three patches of Larian gas don't...

I take my colouring pencils to my own had drawn maps for tabletop (you can see a glimpse in my profile pic). It makes details easier to pick out,

I suspect "Innsmouth" includes R'lyeh in the under water part, so it would probably be a bit redundant.

You can change invocations when you level up too. You can also take the same one four times.

Most acids are colourless. Chlorine gas is greenish yellow, and that dissolves to form hydrochloric acid in the lungs, which I guess is where the trope comes from.

If you match up the number of domains to the number of dark lords there is a stat block for each (allowing two for Borca). Magic swords don't have stat blocks! I had a good adventure using the Carnival domain, but the magic sword wasn't involved (apart from a brief cameo). The only way I can...

I believe this book is intended to double up as a 5.5 patch for CoS, so I expect all the stat blocks from there will be in this.

Personally, I would rather see as little overlap as possible. I feel that there isn’t really a need to go into detail on settings with a single story and no strong theme. We were discussing Dementleu the other day. Aside from Evil Cinderella and her ball most of the setting could just as well...

It’s what the website said. An encounter based on one from the show, a preview monster and a battle map. The biggest surprise was that the battle map was old school hand drawn. I think that people with FOMO have nothing to be concerned about.

A lot of actors play D&D, it’s good for developing acting skills. Some people become actors because they played D&D and caught the bug.

Speaking as an old grog (stared playing in 1982) with 1st edition AD&D, D&D has always been a hybrid of tabletop battlegame and collaborative storytelling, with different groups favouring different ends of the spectrum. Pre-internet, people tended to be unaware of just how different groups could...