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You may need to change the names / re-fluff the ziggurat as a step-pyramid, but The Temple of Bazim-Gorag might be something you could incorporate: http://community.wizards.com/forum/product-and-general-dd-discussions/threads/4154981

Rodney Thompson, one of the core design team of D&D 5th Edition, has left Wizards of the Coast. Rodney was also (with Peter Lee) co-designer of the Lords of Waterdeep boardgame. He leaves on Friday (22nd May). It appears to be his own decision, as he says "A new opportunity has arisen, and so I...

Yes, I looked up the same statistics before posting that - hence why I said it had cost more than that to make, and also that a potential Universal flick would obviously have to not be a flop to make more than the tabletop industry. Even a modest success at the box office would bring in more...

You joke, but the first D&D movie did make more twice as much money at the box office as the entire RPG industry does in a year - unfortunately, it just cost more than that to make. :p If Universal can make a D&D movie that's not a flop, they could easily turn a profit 10 times the size of the...

As Parmandur has pointed out, whether or not a movie puts an RPG at the top of the charts is irrelevant - they'll be too busy swimming in movie money Scrooge McDuck style to notice a paltry increase in tabletop profits. But more importantly, their whole strategy is aimed at increasing the...

My theory is that we're not the primary audience for the APs, and therefore complaints about APs not being what the player base wants are completely missing the point. Mearls has stated in multiple places that D&D's biggest obstacle is modern instant-gratification culture. Lengthy character...

There'll certainly be something, but I'm skeptical it'll be something that's not already on our radar. My bet is it'll either be an announcement for something else due late 2015 or early 2016, or early copies of Out of the Abyss for Gencon attendees.

Wait, didn't Perkins explicitly state somewhere that the next AP after the Wonderland one (which we now know is Out of the Abyss) would be a "giants inspired by Shakespeare" story?

Doubtful. Given the constant bitching about setting them in the Realms at all they need to keep it easily convertible to other settings, so anything that'd be out of place in a generic homebrew world won't be in the spotlight.

On the other hand, if WotC's intention is for 5E to last twice or thrice as long as previous editions, that could be the reason they're not rushing to put out material for multiple settings at once - it could be that 5E will see exactly the same amount of setting products as the last two...

Would you be happy with this plan if the time scale were doubled? I.e. instead of Forgotten Realms in Year 1, Eberron in Year 2, etc. etc., it's Forgotten Realms for Years 1-2, Eberron for Years 2-3, and so on. Because "Year 1" technically ends in July with the anniversary of the Starter Set's...

Hi Will, wanted to let you know I checked out the first episode via podcast and will be following along with your guys' campaign - I'm always up to add another actual play podcast to my list! I probably won't ever catch it live since I'm at work during your stream and my preferred medium is...

Right, but Perkins has been working on the next seven years of D&D storylines. The question is, was the meeting with Ward in April the first he'd been brought on-board, or had they had been working on Out of the Abyss previously? I don't think it's a matter of Ward throwing out some character...

That thought had crossed my mind, but I'm not convinced - one, I think they would have name-dropped him in the initial announcement if he was even remotely attached to the project, and two, they just met for their planning session. I really doubt they settled on a finalized campaign skeleton /...

No, it's not the artwork (which may or may not be what appears in the book itself), it's the characters the artwork is of that definitely trip all of my "Alice in Wonderland" detectors. They were driving home the "madness" bit in the Tweets and actual AP write-up - I'm thinking they meant the...

EDIT: Damn, ninja'd by TwoSix with the same joke. That'll teach me to take my sweet time making memes on my lunch break.

WAIT. A wounded Drizzt, left near death after facing a horde of demons and barely escaping with his life, stumbles into a gelatinous cube's tunnel, where he is devoured. All the magical crap he has on him reacts strangely with the acid and the result is GLABBAGOOL, THE GELATINOUS CUBE WHO...