Recent content by QuentinGeorge

The crazy thing about this is that the Anglo-Saxons were probably Christians before the Normans were! The last pagan Anglo-Saxon King died centuries before Rollo became ruler of Rouen. (The Anglo-Saxon/Norman conflict is also heavily exaggerated, it was basically already moribund by the reign...

I am so tired of the depicton of medieval people as having an inversion to colour. Guys, we have medieval art, we know how they dressed. You just don't think they looked cool.

Almost no one actually involved with Dragonlance the setting wants to connect them, it is a push from outside designers. Which makes sense because it cheapens Dragonlance as its own thing for the sake of "muh multiverse".

Except when we see stories set in Istar (including the original Legends trilogy) the Istarians do not call them that at all.

The Ultima series had a tinker player character class back in the early 80s

Licensed pre-painted miniatures, like D&D or Pathfinder or Critical Role. There's a reason they are sold in blind boxes.

I know with miniatures is that without a rarity system they are actually uneconomic to produce, so in fact the collectors are subsidising the people who just want to go on the second-hand market and buy a bunch of zombies and orcs. This was why the experiment with non-blind boxes ended - the...

Most of Radiant Citadel adventures are riddled with issues and just not particularly good (the settings are different, and have flavour, even if the book has the most bone-headed ideas of where to place them in establish settings) but of the adventures in there, Roberts' one is one of the best...

Why is there this persistent idea that DMs are forcing players to join games? DM builds world, proposes campaign. Puts guidelines up for campaign. Player says: Do I want to join this? Yes or No. Player builds character as guidelines tell him. There is no compulsion and no one is...

But you're missing the point of curation, part of the joy of a curated setting is the increased versimilitude from removing thematically redundant creatures and tightening the focus on the major components of the world. The Krynnish goblinoids and ogre races render orcs redundant and...

"There is not tortles in this world" is a campaign premise that is incompatible with tortles. That's it, it doesn't need any more justification.

Dalamar is very consistently portrayed as a Silvanesti outcast, except for one of the Wizard's three articles where Greenwood has him talking about "raiding the surface folk" which shows Greenwood liked to write about characters he didn't have the first idea about. (His Mordenkainen was pretty...

The "half-orc" is an error in a book produced during an era of badly edited and rushed works. In the world as a whole "goblin blood" is used as a descriptor for similar characters. "Dark elf" in Dragonlance refers to an outcast elf and is not a reference to anything physical or biological...

Have you considered that asking them to create a character that fits the setting is unfair though?

Yes, the person running the game and the setting is given a lot of power, because if they don't have it, the game falls apart.