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That's starting to sound like an unmasking at the end of a Scooby-Doo episode. "And the evil priest is actually... Venger?!" "That's right! And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't for you meddlesome adventurers!"

It's not like you couldn't give the priest a name and motivation (not sure what an aesthetician has to do with it :)) without adding Venger to the adventure. I'd expect that to be done with a remake regardless, even though my personal preference wouldn't require it. Gygax wrote KotB. I could be...

Ah, okay. Thanks for bringing me up to speed. I could see that working, and Venger certainly wears the correct color scheme to fit in with the cultists, but I'm not sure what it would add to have a wizard like Venger working behind the scenes when the adventure already has the evil priest...

Right, which goes along pretty well with the stated modularity of the project -- modular on both the players' and DM's end of things. Hmm, I'm not sure I can see Venger or the Red Wizards as cultists of "Evil Chaos", and I'm not sure why that would need to be changed as the ultimate source of...

The Yeomanry in Greyhawk is one of the suggested settings in Return to the Keep on the Borderlands, but the adventure itself doesn't reference Greyhawk. In fact, there's a Cyndicean NPC, so a Mystaran setting seems to have been intended although the adventure also includes Babylonian/Sumerian...

At around 8:20 in the D&D Direct 2024 video, the person talking says, "For the context of this box, it's in a place called the Borderlands." so the OP would seem to be correct in saying that's the setting of the adventure. Interesting. Personally, I've never made a connection between "the...

Is there something in the press-release (or whatever it is that's being talked about here) that indicates the adventure is set in Greyhawk? The OP seems to say the setting is "the Borderlands", same as the original module. It's described (in B2) as an area on the borders of "the Realm" which is...

Peter Dykstra, pioneering climate journalist, died on July 31 at the age of 67.

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Seriously! These guys are almost as bad as Clarke and Kubrick! I mean, make up your mind guys. Is the mission going to Jupiter or Saturn? Sheesh!

He was given the keys to Orthanc by the Steward of Gondor at this time, so perhaps scheming in that direction, so he can gain access to the palantir. This would give him a motivation to secretly support the joint invasion of Dunlendings and Easterlings who occupied Isengard during these events.

No, that's not my point. First of all, this is fiction. None of it is "supposed to be ... factually correct". Second, I don't believe JRR Tolkien had in mind some other "actual form of the book" departure from which would require any kind of rationalizing. He was just writing a story with a book...

As saint is one of the words I use to describe gods in my D&D games (a translation from JRR Tolkien's Ainu), I would go with hallows or some construction like the hallowed, or if you want to coin a term, holies.

Randy Kehler, the antiwar activist whose speech inspired whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg to release the Pentagon Papers, has died at the age of 80.

Not sure why nobody quotes the book, but assuming these are some of the structures @Ruin Explorer was talking about, can you say more about why these locations would be "trivial" to find if they had once existed? Of course, we know Barad-dûr was destroyed along with the Ring which Sauron used...

I chose backgrounds and other. Other because there isn’t a “happily (or otherwise) sticking with 5E” option, which seems like an oversight on the part of the poll maker.

It's a bit more than a single sentence. If you include the footnote I quoted, it's three sentences. Also, I'm not sure why you say "could have". The statement takes it as given the setting is our world. He acknowledges the difficulty of making the story "fit" and that he "could have fitted...

I'm not looking for the type of "mapping" you're talking about. I don’t look at the LotR as historical fiction, so it’s not about experiencing a "known" historical period. It’s fantasy fiction which is about (among other things) the wonder of the unknown. I don’t think it’s conducive to the...

Perhaps not coincidentally, the novel describes towns and cities. That seems to corroborate that the time-period is not far off. Which structure (or structures) do you mean? It would be helpful to have a description from the book, so we're on the same page. Perhaps, if you look in the right...

Are you making the argument that Tolkien intended to set his stories at a date after AD 1844?