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Given that Mystara is one of the more prominent settings in my home games, I went with gnolls being hyenafolk created by the fantasy egyptian Nithian Empire to serve as shock troops. Nithia itself no longer exists, but the gnolls are instinctively driven to aid in its restoration. Therefore...

raises hand This almost exactly how I run combat encounters in my games. The system works perfectly for me.

The Wanderer’s Guide to Athas. Official Dark Sun 5e. It’ll never happen, but __ (insert expletive of choice), I can dream!

I remember reading about these guys in one of my old DM’s Dragon magazines! If I were to use any of the ferrous dragons in a campaign myself, I would most likely put them somewhere similar to Golarion’s Numeria region (or Starfinder’s planet Aballon) and have them be an extraterrestrial...

Reply to opening post. They have openly declared that they see my favorite official D&D setting (Dark Sun) as problematic. I disagree with this sentiment, but that is (and has been) a discussion for other threads on this forum. All of which is a roundabout way of saying no. I don’t think I’m...

Can’t speak for anyone else, but my biggest issue with D&D dragons is that I personally perceive “true dragons” more as animalistic apex predators with the powers of a natural disaster, rather than winged reptiles you can have a conversation with. More Beowulf’s dragon, less Smaug. In my home...

My home game D&D world has ultimately become a stitching together of four different settings, but they are connected to each other by time travel. Trade and travel between these four time periods is therefore accomplished via extremely rare, heavily-guarded portals. Also, just for fun, I have...

Well, I’d like to see the following giants as found in various other D&D settings/subsettings: DARK SUN (probably won’t happen, but I can still dream) Beasthead Giants Shadow Giants AL-QADIM Desert Giants Jungle Giants NENTIR VALE Death Giants

Soon as I have money to spare, I’m ordering this. Alien Bestiary was highly enjoyable for me, so this one should be just as much fun!

Thanks for all the review links! My adopted sister and I are planning to go see it on April 1st. I’m really excited!

Second session of the Functional Addicts saw the DM get our background information all mixed up in his head. As a result, what was supposed to be a simple “get to know the town and go to a fancy dress party” session resulted in we the players going down a GLORIOUS conspiracy theory tangent that...

May not have gotten the player archetypes 100% correct, but glad to know I was on the right track!

My Dark Sun campaign ended on a bittersweet note (one PC dead after a truly intense battle with an earth drake, but the village they were helping get back on its feet is now safe from danger and also formed an alliance with the city of Tyr), and so I stepped down and my dad took over as DM...

Runs off to look up… 🤯 That looks AWESOME! Like Dark Sun meets the Witcher or something!

Double post, sorry

Except for points 9 and 10, yeah this is mostly how I run Dark Sun myself. The sea of silt is still an ocean of dust in my version though.

Reply to OP. Preaching to the choir here, I know, but in Dark Sun the defilers/sorcerer-kings/templars polluting the environment with magic and enforcing a regime of oppression, slavery, and terror ARE. THE. VILLAINS. And it’s your job as heroes to first survive the wilderness and then kill as...

I am so looking forward to this movie! And the more previews I see for it, the more I am convinced that the main characters don’t just represent PC class archetypes, but also players as well: Edgin - tragic backstory hero / the player who is just here to have fun. Holga - ~murderhobo / the...

Gods, I love that scene. Probably my favorite in the whole movie. Certainly feels appropriate to the situation in my opinion.

Reply to opening post. Well done, WOTC. Seriously, this is more than I was expecting. Now, if you’ll all excuse me, I’ve a 5e SRD to download from D&D Beyond.