Recent content by Paul Farquhar

Until you read it and decide it’s not the setting you wanted. Also see: Radiant Citadel. Why not? Because it’s expensive and WotC have no commercial need for any new settings.

It's not a case of knowing how to hold a bow, it's just a case of knowing which way wrists rotate when you move. The more you look at that image the more obviously wrong you realise it is. Maybe the book is delayed three months so they can take some anatomy lessons? Why has the horse on the...

It's not intelligence that poses the existential threat, it's the lack of it.

Everyday Heroes?

I should have posted this yesterday, but Blue Oyster Cult where originally known as Blistering Blue Barnacles.

That doesn’t mean they won’t drive you insane faster than the Necronomicon. All human lies, propaganda and delusions lumped together in one handy little package.

That would be Thomson and Thompson, actually. The joke is in the spelling, they aren’t actually twins. Also, Tintin, not TinTin.

I’m a fan of Ed as a person, but the Dalelands are the most generically boring part of the Forgotten Realms.

You have to make it psychological if you want the players to care. If players cared about their character death Super Mario would have an R rating.

Plenty of magitech in Baldur’s Gate 3. And lots of setting-agnostic WotC adventures.

True, but since we aren’t medieval, it’s not so glaringly obvious.

That’s why WotC use magitech in all their settings. They avoid the complexity of the real world.

All of them. You create a world, the players are going to want to interact with it.

That’s why superhero rulesets are so useful. They cover all the bases. But this is about D&D, so it has rules for magic. What it would need is rules for all the real world stuff.

Games that are set in the real world have rules for that stuff. They colour to the edges.