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That's because he doesn't know much about really anything. Despite all his bluster, he is not an inventor or engineer. He's not a rocket scientist or electrical engineer. He's an investor who got really lucky. He inherited a fortune from his father, who operated an emerald mine during...

I'd agree with all these and add Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue. With those 6 books you've got everything you need to run the Realms for a lifetime, regardless of edition.

Honest answer? Because not all combat in the game world is between PC's and NPC's. Imagine if the PC's have to defend a town during an invasion by a hostile force, and they're trying to prevent civilian casualties. . .knowing how strong those civilians are impacts that battle. Also...

I really preferred 3e's way of dealing with NPC's by giving them character classes. . .but classes that were clearly inferior to heroic PC classes. It was a good way to show that typical people still had abilities and skills, and could be useful, but weren't anywhere near as good at most things...

Well, if we can have 3.5 as 3rd edition revised, we can have a 5th edition revised. At least this is WotC moving closer to a proper version number for this edition rather than call it "one D&D"

I'm sure Hasbro would love for it to launch a film "franchise". . . .and D&D is built on the backs of Lord of the Rings, Conan, and a half-dozen other fantasy series that didn't get big film deals. OF COURSE a D&D movie will resemble other movies. If it didn't at least halfway remind you of...

Somehow I'm imagining essentially a D&D version of Yes, Minister/Yes, Prime Minister. . .where a Lawful Good monarch who is very adamant about his beliefs has a very Lawful Neutral vizier who is pragmatic about running things but very good at bamboozling the monarch into thinking everything is...

The new OGL they tried to force on 3PP's was such an obvious trap that it seems screamingly obvious that it was an attempt to destroy them. That absurdly open-ended content approval clause, where they could revoke the license for any publisher at any time on their judgment of the content alone...

In fact, WotC explicitly used to think they could do whatever and the D&D fans would indeed eventually come back. I remember that was one of the things said during the 4e marketing, one of the things that very much offended me during those Edition Wars, was when one WotC executive likened the...

Let's not kid ourselves, D&D is by far the largest tabletop RPG, it's practically synonymous with tabletop RPG in many circles. The entire rest of the industry, especially when you move beyond products that are supporting, compatible with, or closely derived from D&D, is dwarfed by D&D. The...

Hasbro is publicly traded on NASDAQ Their common stock is trading at $58.46 as of the close of the market yesterday afternoon. https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/has

Oh, that's a really good one too. I'd honestly say, going across edition lines, to get a really good set of Realms books you'd want: Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (2001) A Grand History of the Realms (2007) Faiths and Avatars (1996) Demihuman Deities (1998) Powers and Pantheons (1997)...

The only one I'd say is close is the 3.0 Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide. It's probably the best single-book campaign sourcebook I've ever seen. Even when you're not playing 3.0, it's still the best one-book description and guide to Faerun, and the best campaign setting book I've seen done.

The Faiths and Avatars books for Forgotten Realms have indeed held up wonderfully well. A quarter-century and three editions later they're still the gold standard for religion in Faerun.

I thought that was St. Cuthbert. . .since he's literally the 7th century Anglo-Saxon Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne transplanted into Greyhawk (to the point his backstory literally says he was a mortal on an unknown world long ago and after death was raised to divinity and sent to Greyhawk to...