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Great write up! I've never know where to start with Mystara, but this is enough to convince me to grab a copy of Calidar Series 1 and maybe that boxset about the Voyage of the Princess Ark.

Sorry, it was in Tales from the Infinite Staircase, not the Great Modron March. True Slaadi are completely variable. Any number of arms, big or small, any colour or many colours. And none of the normal 'slaadi' physiology or appearance. And yes, the Slaad lords are apparently the same, since...

I kinda hate that they made that canon in 5e, I liked the traditional Planescape ambituity of maybe it was Primus, maybe it was something else better. More room to expand on, or more mysterious if you're not going to touch it. I don't know if there's been much on the Slaad since the Great...

That's fair, but a lot more work to do. I'll take this work for what it is, a snapshot of how well certain companies have done on Kickstarter, which was the only player for a few years and still the majority player for crowdfunding. Backerkit is definitely winning a lot of creators over as...

The Outlands are infinite, but only the area on the Outlands map is explored. As you get further rimward, you run into more ruins of unknown provenance and very few have returned from there. I think later editions tied that into the Far Realms? Regarding close to the spire: Tales from the...

I don't think you're wrong at all. The boxed sets don't go beyond Sigil and the gate towns at least, with the occasional visits in adventures. The only good reference I've read was On Hallowed Grounds, which describes the domains of deities that reside in the Outlands. E.g. The House of...

I doubt Gloomhaven will be anywhere as big as D&D or Pathfinder, but almost nothing is. Even if it's not a sustainable product line, it should be an interesting one-off product. I agree the card based system will make it harder to do on a VTT, but it's the part of Gloomhaven I find the most...

Yes, the original crowd funding project basically led to the development of three related games: Stealing Stories for the Devil Who the Devil are You? The Devil's Dandy Dogs (forthcoming) The mechanics are identical, there's even a disclaimer in Who the Devil are You that you can skip that...

As a counter point, neither Tales from the Infinite Portal nor the Great Modron March have much of anything to do with Sigil, besides as a place to hear a rumour or talk with a quest giver. More than half of Dead Gods takes place outside of Sigil as well. I'm not familiar with the other...

Fair enough! I didn't find it particularly well explained in BitD, so perhaps I didn't really notice in comparison.

If it's anything like Blades in the Dark (and it smells a lot like Blades in the Dark...) that's all free form and up to the players and DMs. DM: Okay, the guard dogs see you when you walk into the courtyard and immediately spring up to attack. Player 1: My charming rogue will use cunning to...

I think a lot of us are just burnt out that WotC doesn't do good world building* anymore. Spelljammer was a huge let down, no matter how good the tie in adventure is, it doesn't make up for the fact that the campaign setting is missing the setting. My thought remains if WotC is going to be bad...

Huh. Since we've been discussing printing costs and economies of scale, I thought this was an interesting blurb from Jeremy Crawford: So many new D&D books are coming in 2024, no printing company can handle them all 5e sales have been way bigger than previous editions, so the 2024 anniversary...

To be fair, I think that's this particular journalist and a lot of old grognards calling it a box set. The WotC description of Spelljammer, and what I recall of Planescape leaks, is a slip case containing 3 books, 1 map, and 1 DM screen. They never promised any boxes!

Hey look, it's up for $78.95 CAD Bigby Presents: Glory of Giants (Dungeons & Dragons Expansion Book): Wizards, RPG Team: 9780786968985: Books - Amazon.ca While I agree that economics is a thing, ouch, that stings. I picked up Spelljammer for $50 CAD and Dragonlance for $40 CAD...

Wasn't aware of Golden Vault references! It's been a while, but I thought the DMG had everything, Great Wheel, World Axis, World Tree, etc.? My point isn't that WotC is going to erase anything, just the new format is here is a bunch of tools/ideas to make your own campaign as opposed to here...

My inclination/fear is that Planescape 5e is not going to answer any of the cosmological questions, e.g. Is the Great Wheel still around, or does the World Axis model take precedence? At least anymore than the existing 5e books do. We'll get the description of Sigil and the Outlands, and DM...

The thing I always found interesting about F.E.A.R. was the separation between the horror segments and the action segments. On one hand, it was a little bit of a comfort that I'm not going to have supernatural jump scares in the middle of a heated combat. On the other, one the horror segments...

I really love the way TSR let DiTerlizzi and Brom style Planescape and Dark Sun respectively. I recognize it's not for everyone, but having such a strong, distinctive style really separated these settings from other D&D settings. For what it's worth, I've got my fingers crossed that they bring...

The problem is the marketing model. They don't want to sell 'lines', you're never going to get a Spelljammer adventure or Planescape splatbook that requires the base 5e boxset. Grognards like me are going to complain about the lack of depth, but I'm guessing the sales data supports not having...