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Amen. Interstellar travel, by the laws of physics as we know them, is pretty much impossible, and it isn't looking good for...

That wasn't even the first time his phylactery was destroyed. If he could walk back from the first one and inexplicably come back to...

I don't get it. These two books have the greatest page count of any Forgotten Realms campaign setting in at least 20 years. Or maybe...

I get it if people don’t like the aesthetic but it’s weird to me that people don’t like it because they think a dragon couldn’t fly...

Yes. After just shy of a quarter decade the gold dragon mercifully no longer looks like a catfish-face.

If Sammaster returning means the Cult Of The Dragon goes back to leaning hard on making dracoliches because they expect dracoliches will...

Right, but here's the thing, the fun Star Wars novels already went there decades before Disney. In the Thrawn trilogy of blessed memory...

The DC comic universe, or the Marvel comic universe, or the Star Wars universe all have an established lore as well. These are all...

Is D&D really a story at its heart? The novels are controlled by their various authors (most of the time but not always) but the...

I don’t expect or place a great deal of importance on narrative integrity of lore in a setting across its entire 40 year published...

Absolutely, because those early design sketches are actually from, and also in, Fizban's.

Thinking through the first 34 pages of this thread, I think the most salient point was made by @Umbran: if culture can explain/provide...

So, there's a nice example from a commonly known fiction we can look to: Klingons. At one point (I think it might have been in ST...