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Yup. See here.

Trying to run a cooperative endeavour without talking to each other about what you like and what you want is hoping to get lucky. You can't even manipulate people, and I don't think it often works, without finding out what they want. Since the player is an active reader, I'd focus on how her...

Gargauth has no permanent dwelling place -- he was exiled from Baator to wander the Prime Material Plane. He doesn't spend a majority of time on any single world, but tends to appear suddenly and briefly. See Powers & Pantheons for more.

There won't be one. He will be.

See my first post here. This time last year, I'd have said that apart from the RSEs, the published game setting, but even more so the underlying setting, is very much largely Ed's in spirit and detail. He has no formal control, but is often consulted by other authors and contributes a lot of...

No, I just thought you'd be interested to read it.

I wish Rich luck with that intention, but as stated there it's no different a plan than has been tried before, with limited success. Trying to coordinate RPGA events too is not promising, especially given the dreary precedent of the Living City campaign.

It's a very good and thorough piece of work, but in retrospect it spends too many pages flatly cataloguing, without distinguishing what's fundamental about the setting and what's peripheral, and not enough describing what the Realms is like and how it works. It's not surprising that many fail to...

The RPG culture would be in so much better shape if it wasn't a normal idea that depth is less useful in play than mechanical benefits.

Here's the big 'don't know' about Rich's article: To what extent does it read like a PR release or a movie pitch because that's what it is, and to what extent is that kind of top-down, garish, ego-first, nuance-be-damned thinking actually how the new Realms has been conceived and is being done...

This is the most detailed single account of the differences between the original Realms and the 1987 boxed set (further divergence of course followed): Swords of Eveningstar, Swords of Dragonfire, and The Sword Never Sleeps following this year. These are Ed's first published Realms novels...

Most D&D modules don't meet Wikipedia's stated notability guidelines for books, but Wikipedia doesn't generally seem to observe those guidelines. I like the fact that Wikipedia, in practice, often allows its readers to judge what's notable, rather than enforcing a centralized cultural orthodoxy.

What about people who don't self-identify as 'gamers' (any more than 'film fans' or 'newspaper readers') but enjoy D&D and its settings? Your vote is between two kinds of tribalism.

Chris Perkins, in a recent interview, said that "Ed is taking the lead on this, and a lot of the work he's doing on the campaign guide is focused on places beyond Faerûn." Bruce is at least partly referring to this. It's still the case, Bruce is just wordplaying slightly.

Wow, I'm remembering now. Did he ever release that version?

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I would buy the Kara-Tur: The Eastern Realms PDF from Paizo.com for $4. It has the best information on Kara-Turan religion and language. Additional lore is in the OA modules, the MC6 Monstrous Compendium appendix, and some Dragon articles.

Describing and explaining a secondary world without a central defining story is really difficult. Managing a shared world so that its original strengths are lived up to and not submerged (when the creator lives in another country), others' creativity is incorporated organically without their...

The motivations, aims and strivings of such folk in Faerûn are no less complex or diverse. None of them are simplistically to 'fight evil' outside internet fantasy. The good-evil framework itself is imposed, in this discourse, from outside: it's not how many folk of Faerûn see things except a...

This is monoptic one-true-wayism. There's no single ideal density for everyone, because everyone has different preferences for how settings work. For instance this one: Whereas I and many others love the multiplicity, feel it makes for a far more real-seeming world than a pruned one with little...