Recent content by VelvetViolet

These are so obscure that they came from the author's personal site, not the Necromancer Games site.

You're welcome. I originally got interested by chance during a phase when I was obsessed with generic pantheons (this was before we had patheon design videos on youtube) and discovered Eamonvale Pantheon while googling one day and falling instantly in love. Any pantheon that includes Old Man...

Years ago Darkloch Creative Enterprises wrote Grey Citadel and Eamonvale Incursion, published by Necromancer Games (now owned by Frog God Games). They had a website that went dead years ago, but I contacted author Nathan Paul years ago to get backups of the various web enhancements. I'm now...

Pity. Hasbro owns more IPs than they know what to do with. reads through the incredibly generic sounding descriptions released so far Hm... did he bother reading about WotC's various scifi IPs before making that demand? Star*Drive has all the tools he seems to be looking for. Not identical...

Did anyone ask "why didn't WotC revive Star Frontiers, Star*Drive, or any of the other scifi IPs they own" yet?

I'd love to hear if you could find anything! I loved Polyhedron back in the day and I had no idea that it had a Yahoo Group. I archived my groups back in 2019 when I heard about the purge. I wish I had known about this because I would've backed it up too. However, I have some bad news for you...

I actually think the cosmology needs to rebuilt from the ground up with actual planning in mind. The ad hoc design just leads to nonsensical results. The astral has always been the transitive plane used to travel between the material plane and the outer planes. If you use it for interstellar...

I don’t know what edition you play, but for my group the astral plane has always been the method used to travel to/from/across the outer planes using astral barges. I assumed that the change meant the astral barge rules were subsumed into spelljammers and now there was regular trade between the...

My first problem with the great wheel cosmology is that the planes were added for the sake of OCD rather than as places you could actually adventure in. The transitive and inner planes get the worst of it. (Especially the paraplanes and quasiplanes, which got silly fast.) The only time the...

The cosmology wasn’t fixed in place. They recapped the various cosmologies that were default for some edition or prominent suggestions. The great wheel is treated as the implicit cosmology in 5e, but since WotC doesn’t write planar adventures it’s purely academic at this point. Making a...

I can imagined that it would be shortened considerably, but I don't think they'd outright change much since the cosmology is already spelled out in DMG. It's identical to 2e except for the addition of the feywild and shadowfell (which are just the negative and positive planes reflavored anyway)...

While I agree with replacing phlogiston with the astral, this change has ramifications for the rest of the cosmology. Previous editions assumed the material plane was a contiguous plane but now it's a series of unconnected spheres floating within the astral. Why is it even considered its own...

Sorry for the late reply. According to this site, Gygax more or less invented the idea of dragons with color-coded breath weapons. While separately dragons made of ice, dragons that breathe freezing cold, dragons that live in arctic conditions, and dragons with white scales have examples from...

I know. I loved playing Starcraft as a kid. When I looked back at the writing as an adult… well, it’s terrible. First draft written by a complete newb terrible. It is chock full of plot holes, inconsistent/incoherent scaling, internal contradictions, etc. It is completely unsalvageable and...

Great idea. I’m done investing in these lost causes. From now on, I’m only ever investing in things I made myself. I simply can’t trust anyone else to preserve art for posterity unless they release it under creative commons. I’ve been working on my own scifi setting since 2018 due to my intense...