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Always a fun theme to play with. I'm guessing from the inclusion of "Air" in your "Land, Sea and Air" header that there might be some newly-invented zeppelins in this world? If so, I imagine the Fey aren't terribly happy to see those crowding the skies!

I wasn't familiar with that webcomic, but it looks quite fun! Thanks for sharing!

Another quick progress report: I've acquired a few new illustrations over the past couple weeks, so I'm playing around with some new looks on a few pages. I can use any left-over illustrations to fill white space on the Credits page and the spill-over page for the Table of Contents. (The book...

Since you asked so kindly, I started this thread with a setting featuring robots, vampires, and wombats.

Some random ideas for campaign settings. Here's a setting inspired by a tangent in another thread: The Down Below Three species of humanoid wombats inhabit the caverns known as the Down Below: bare-nosed wombats (who have the same traits as Halflings); hairy-nosed wombats (who have the same...

Hey, don't blame the Forgotten Realms for the prevalence of dwarves, elves, and halflings! That setting is just a kitchen sink that makes use of whatever tropes happen to be in the Player's Handbook. If the core species in the first Player's Handbook had been androids, vampires, and wombats...

Squid Game?

...and H'Catha, with the Sun counting as the ninth planet

It's a kitchen sink in the sense that the DM can shoehorn in whatever faction, NPC, or small nation they want to put there. The Border Kingdoms chapter in Power of Faerun explicitly states "there is no such thing as an accurate history or even map of the Border Kingdoms," and adds that the...

My statement applies to all definitions of the word "hiding," without need for context or knowledge of intent. Per the rules, the DM determines when conditions are appropriate for X. By definition, X = Z. Therefore, per the rules, the DM determines when conditions are appropriate for Z. That...

Nentir River in Nentir Vale looks like it would map fairly well onto the Scelptar River in the Border Kingdoms south of the Lake of Steam (and the Border Kingdoms are the real kitchen sink of the Realms). But from what little I know of Nentir Vale, its climate doesn't match the warm climate of...

The rules say, "The DM decides when conditions are appropriate for hiding." That remains the rule no matter what definition one uses for the word "hiding." One definition of the word "hiding" is "the state of being hidden." So the DM decides when conditions are appropriate for (among other...

None of that needs to be explicitly stated in the rules. It's true by definition. The words "hiding" and "hidden" aren't capitalized, so they aren't keywords; their normal, English-language definitions apply.

I guess I'm just not seeing the ambiguity in the updated rules, probably because I'm not seeing where it says anything about "remaining hidden." The Hide action says you gain a condition "while hidden" (which is just the phrase "while hiding" written in passive form). The DM determines when...

Since the game now has these situations where players make initiative rolls before the they know why they're being placed in initiative order (which wasn't necessary when the game had surprise rounds), the only thing I can figure is the characters being placed in initiative order have some vague...

Don't the rules say exactly that, though? "The Dungeon Master decides when circumstances are appropriate for hiding," and, per the errata, when you use the Hide action "you have the Invisible condition while hidden." If the DM decides circumstances aren't appropriate for hiding, you can't be...

I wonder how hard it would be to convince American TTRPG companies to relocate to Canada. Or at least move some conventions up there, so gamers can spend their dollars in a country that's less hostile to small TTRPG businesses with global supply chains.

Quick progress report: I've acquired enough illustrations to fill in the last large areas of white space in my manuscript. As a result, page layout work on the Forgotten Realms Travel Guide is nearly finished. I just need to place a credits sections, a table of contents, and a bibliography...

This thread is clearly an appropriate place for me to post my unsolicited opinions about WotC's business practices...

Always Read the Fine Print... ...or, in this case, the paragraph about ecology at the end of an obscure monster entry. As far as I can tell, none of the campaign setting guides describing Zakhara list aasimar as a species found in that part of the Realms. Despite that, a paragraph buried in the...