Recent content by Paul Farquhar

Just my personal observation. It’s a long time (around 40 years) since I’ve seen any player motivated by the offer of gold. But they are always up for saving the world.

It wasn’t the setting that was particularly popular, it pretty generic, with a lot less variety and support for different types of story than the Forgotten Realms, and less genre focused than settings like Ravenloft and Dark Sun. It was the story that was popular, especially the War of the...

The Force Awakens?

One thing that made me a bit uncomfortable when I read Children of the Lens was the evil aliens were utterly annihilated. That didn’t seem like a good action to me (and I was 13). Also, the “we are going to need a bigger superweapon” trope was getting very tired by that point. The earlier...

Doesn’t make their meddling right though. The story becomes much more interesting if you take a less black and white view of both lots of ancient aliens. Interestingly, Triplanetary (which features the most meddling) was not originally written as part of the series, it was retconned. Oh, and...

I would have at least put “from the creator of Tarzan” on the advertising! I can’t say that I think anyone cares if something is a rip off of Star Wars or not though.

That’s really a non-issue. I would not expect any adaptation to so slavishly stick to the original text. A bigger issue is why are the Green Lanterns so male? They don’t have the excuse of having been written in the 30s/40s.

Target audience is not you. I’ve long since learned that not everything is aimed at me.

The issue is, gladiators are slaves. So if you are Champion of the Arena, you must be a slave. Aside from that, gladiators exist in most D&D settings, it’s far from a unique feature or primary focus of the Dark Sun setting.

Any sort of sorcerer, warlock, wizard, eldritch knight or bard better represents the magic of Krynn with a Tower of High Sorcerery background and origin feat. Arcane magic on Krynn works like the core rules. But culturally, most casters are trained in the towers of high sorcery.

They will tackle it the same way as they have before - there are no orcs native to Krynn. Krynn is part of the D&D multiverse. But the thing with having the players play as the Heroes of the Lance - none of them are orcs (or sorcerers). The hypothetical potential existence of spelljamming orc...

That’s the issue: PHB works - rubbish sorcerer subclass does not. Sometimes not adding things is better. No reason not to have Goliaths in Krynn, it has giants.

That’s easy - you just make the “good guy” aliens questionable. That’s what JMS did with the element he stole for B5. It’s called Good Kosh Bad Kosh.

I think it would be a seriously missed opportunity if they didn’t include the pregens. Absence of familiar characters was another reason the last DL effort failed. Anyway, much point in plugging Rastalin if he isn’t in it!

The lunar sorcerer was one of the things wrong with it, since it was a complete disconnect with established DL lore. What that needs is to be dropped. You could do Wizards of High Sorcery and Solomanic knights with backgrounds and feats, but you don’t need them. DL worked perfectly well with...