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Bas-Lag, the setting of China Mieville's New Crobuzon fantasy trilogy. Doskvol from Blades in the Dark.

For those who don’t know, here’s the video being referenced.

Building too many cities (and watching Pointy Hat) hit the nail on the head. All Cities are theme parks. I've been lucky that most of...

I kinda like the idea of will scarlet being a bard (blade) because I was raised on Robin of sherwood. but Robin Hood as a ranger was...

bears, after breeding for intelligence and loyalty, would be amazing for stuff like construction. It's like having a smaller elephant...

Emperor Justinian II “the Slit-Nosed” was Eastern Roman Emperor in the early Middle Ages. He’s notable because of the fact that he was...

As far as I recall, 1e didn’t name drop Arthur, Conan, Aragorn or Robin Hood as class examples.

By definition it was more capable than 1e, as it was basically 1e with more stuff (at least that is how I've always seen it).

Agreed. I also think 2e was the least capable at providing players a PC that represented those characters it named.

That is exactly one of the things I loved about 2e: it tried to be grounded and to worry about real history, except where they...

The one thing that annoys me looking back at the 2E books is it is too "grounded" and worries too much about real history. That goes...

Let's go with Elderberry tales, my 5e heartbreaker. Thanks to the Bastard breaking the sacred order, peasants are changing species to...

One of the things I love about the 2nd edition PHB is the use of examples from myth and fiction for each class. So I'm asking. Does it...

My homebrew uses fort, ref, will. I would at least consider it if I was El hefe.

Dwarf Bear cavalry is certainly a thing in my homebrew. But "cuddletime"? Ye gads, we dwarves recruit and train bears the old...