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I'm the rare soul who adores both Aventuria and the Forgotten Realms. In many ways they're quite similar: inescapable living-history metaplots kitchen-sink hodgpodges of multiple settings welded onto one another inherently corporate commodities, but with eccentricities of a kind that would...

I thoughtfully answered the first few pages of spells, diligently looking up any spells I was rusty on, then realized I just didn't want to do this anymore. So I just clicked "next" a lot without rating anything, to see what was coming up. It asked me to rate twenty pages' worth of spells! And...

Presumably that's the drink they pour for your party right before you descend, inebriated, to the lower level and start slinging axes around for funsies.

Try being a Twin Peaks fan!

The whole scene is one of my favorite bits ever—I would never have guessed Stewart could be so pitch-perfect in a comic role. (This was before Blunt Talk.) I guess I assume that every other Trek fan will have that scene memorized as I do, which of course is a silly assumption. To be serious for...

Sorry, I should have been more explicit, especially since not recognizing the joke does indeed make me sound like a jerk. Here's what I was riffing on.

Your wife won't let you have it on? Girlfriend, then? You're not married, you don't have a girlfriend, and you're not allowed to watch Star Trek anymore? Good lord.

I don't understand this objection. I very frequently see and hear people voicing the opinion that the main reason so many players prefer the FR setting is because it was the setting they first played in, or the only setting they've played in. Almost every time the relatively popularity of FR...

I think a 40+ can hope to play for another 60ish years! (But I take your point, and I think your post is a perspicacious intervention.)

Anybody have a screenshot of the Eberron options? I picked FR but Eberron would have been option #2 for me, and I'm curious what the lineup looks like.

That's mostly true now, but there is a tiny bit more in WotC's portfolio—and there used to be a little bit more still, through the first half or so of 2020. WotC was still producing the Transformers TCG until summer 2020; the final expansion set was released in May 2020. And the Avalon Hill...

This is a very cool idea! But your question isn't the easiest to answer, unfortunately. This is largely because Wizards of the Coast has not established the fates of many FR NPCs from the 1e–3.5e era. Certain NPCs have been established in the 4e and 5e lore as having survived—Mirt, Elminster...

Oh, it’s definitely not just you! I just think that, while there are commonalities (it’s the same guy writing in both modes, after all), the experience of reading a Greenwood setting guide is radically different from the experience of reading a Greenwood novel; the latter has its charms but...

I won’t say Greenwood’s setting work is without flaw, but I definitely don’t think his prose fiction style and his setting guide style should be lumped in together. I enjoy his fiction ambivalently but love his setting work, and I know many others who feel the same. I’m really looking forward...

I don’t think this is one of the products Ray Winninger was referring to. It’s a DM’s Guild book, along the lines of Greenwood’s Border Kingdoms guide, not a WotC product.

Cleric. That’s partly because I most often play in, and almost always DM in, the Forgotten Realms, where the pantheons are extensive (or bloated and overstuffed, take your pick) and the various faiths were rather fully fleshed out in some of the most impressive RPG lore supplements ever...

If/when they do Dragonlance, I feel confident it will have the same relationship to the original War of the Lance module saga as Curse of Strahd does to the original Ravenloft module. It'll be a "fresh take" / expansion upon the original storyline. The only difference is that with Strahd...

Heroes of Baldur’s Gate is indeed set in 1369 DR, between the events of the first two BG video games. It doesn’t entirely ignore the fact that there have been time jumps between editions since then, because it does include one page aimed at assisting DMs who want to run the adventure in the...

I suspect that may be deliberate—Minsc doesn't have his scars in the cover illo, either, and the conceit of the book is that it's a journal detailing his adventures. I'm guessing that's an image of an adventure he had in his youth, prior to the events of BG1.

It's sort of by WotC. It's published by WotC via DMsGuild (like for example any of the much shorter products they've put out to benefit the Extra Life charity, or like the Wayfinder's Guide). But it doesn't look like anyone on the WotC RPG team worked on it. Instead, its lead designer was James...