Search results

I don't think those things are mutually exclusive. Nothing says that old stuff can't appeal to new players, with the right presentation.

It's from both. I like reading setting guides, metaplot books and novels, because they make the setting more alive, more immersive to me (and particularly the novels, make me more interested in the setting and more emotionally invested). I like to play in those settings both as a player and as a...

I get that totally laisezz-faire approach to settings, but that not what a living setting means to me and I'm interested in living settings. Anyway, WoC thse days just doesn't do books I'm interested in and I've accepted that.

Exactly. Honestly, when people say "oh, you don't need updates on the setting, because it was retconned and you have the old books" that just says to me they have a very cursory understanding of the setting. Even when talking about NPCs, haf the important NPCs are dead, like most of the...

Vampire, Shadowrun update their settings. Even Pathfinder, updated the setting with 2e, despite having a "year one" approach for the run of 1e.

If you've read any of the newer novels, you'd know it isn't true. Yes, they went as far as rebooting, without saying out loudly, bbut still, there are many changes in the world, not covered in the adventures. So yes, for me the 5e Realms have seen enough changes to warrant some form of an...

Because it's good to have a changing, evolving, living setting. New story, new plots, new characters, changing status quo, updated timeline etc. Considering FR, the Second Sudnering was supposedly a major, world-changing event, yet we still hadn't got a comprehensive work about how it...

I get the reasons from a business standpoint. It just leaves me cold. I'm not a CR fan. I'd be interested in a proper setting book for FR, or Ravenloft, or Planescape, or Spelljammer. I'm not interested in this.

Yet, D&D's original settings still didn't get a real update, while MtG settings and even this... Not interested, skip.

Does buying used 3.5 books from third parties still counts as putting money into WotC's wallet? I bought several in the past few months (including re-buying the FRCSG, with the still best FR map). Honestly, I don't own any 5e products so far. I did read most of them one way or the other, but I...

I like FR. Both the campaign I'm playing in and the one I just started take place on FR. But come on, yet another Sword Coast map? Hell, I even like the region, but it's just disappointing that it's all WotC shrunked down FR into.

All this is saying to me is that very few people plays long-term campaigns with 5e. Which, considering its main target audience, isn't surprising. The game itself isn't really catered to that, even. Character costumization being front-loaded, with very little on mid-high levels. Not much in...

Emphasis added. This. Currently, we're playing 3.5, becouse of that. 5e is too simple and lacks several things I deem important, like real crafting rules, or more costumization on mid-higher levels (and specific concepts getting more through tratment than just a subclass), or more interesting...

This was awfull.

Based on V5, I'm just not interested. The new edition's direction is jut not my WoD and Vampire and this likely will be the same. Also, I just can't imagine they can pull it off without going full-throttle into political controversies.

Thanks Ed, your articles are quite inspiring, since I'm currently preparing start my first full-on Realms Campaign with some old friends, some of them who never played rpgs. We're using 3.5e and the FRCSG. It's highly rewarding to get a peek inside the methods and thought processes of the...

Once again, the 5e design philosophy is not for my tastes. I like psionics being full their own thing instead of just subclasses that adds some tricks to a class. Ah well, we're playing 3.5 anyway.

Dunno, I could see black-on-brown being hard on some people with eye problems, but really, most of the pages are black-on-white (moreso, a fairly pleasant off-white, IMO) and the font and size is quite readable, at least for me. I'm short-sighted, not far-sighted, though. I could see the...

Oh, another thing! Since we've talked about artworks a lot, I must say, the 3/3.5 corebook covers might be my favorite among D&D editions, including PF. I especially love the 3.5 DMG cover and the MMs and the FRCSG of course. The 4e books had some astounding artworks as covers, but I guess, I'm...

Still, you gave support for multiple setting, among them the FRCSG, which is still a benchmark for setting guides. Also, the outsourcing of Ravenloft to WW was, IMO, a good thing, I like those books, with all their warts a lot. Overall, I can understand the desire for an unified player base...