Recent content by Paul Farquhar

And Godsbreath and Akarhan Sangar appear in further anthology adventures. It might be worth reminding people that the Dragonlance setting was described through adventures a couple of years before a dedicated setting book was released.

They have druids, who needs animal husbandry? Goodberries for everyone. It’s surrounded by a vast void of nothingness, it’s not threatening to destroy anything.

All joined together by fantasy United Federation of Worlds.

How does this differ from Radiant Citadel?

People have certain expectations about fantasy settings. If they don’t tick all the appropriate tropes they don’t like it and kick off.

I would argue that most D&D cities, from Baldur’s Gate to Sharn to Sigil to the Rock of Brall, are far more contemporary than they are medieval.

You know what a good model for slasher horror in Ravenloft? se7en. The killer isn’t after the PCs, the PCs are rushing around trying to track down the killer as they horribly kill NPCs. They have to stop them before they get to NPCs the players care about.

They are a waste of time. For horror to be effective it’s the players who need to feel fear, not the characters.

This is a good point. A distinctive appearance is important for a character to be memorable. Tea Pot did appear in the computer game Stone Prophet. I don’t think this is how he appeared in the game. I have a vague recollection of a floating mummy wearing a crown or headdress of some kind, but...

You can do Eberron as Final Fantasy. It’s just a matter of hitting the tone.

One of the issues is that the Dragonlance novels are written in 3rd person, so the stupidity of gully dwarves is word of god. If they hand a 1st person narrator then it could be put down to the prejudice of an unreliable narrator.

I expect the artist was trying to avoid looking too cliché, because the "classic" look has been so often parodied (AKA the Scooby Doo look) that it's more likely to produce laughter than fear in the players. Although I would have changed his name to something that didn't sound like Tea Pot if I...

Wasn't that the Tom Cruise movie?

The foremost thing is that a game of D&D must be fun for the players. If you set out to punish them, your campaign will die. Horror gaming is about sending a frisson of fear up your players' spine, not hitting their PCs with a big stick. And horror is not the same as grimdark. It's not uncommon...

A novel is a novel, D&D settings are not novels, they exist to be played. If you want to read the novel it hasn’t gone anywhere, you can read it as many times as you like.