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No. There are no LGSs in Serbia that run AL as far as I know.

After Death House, the party leveled to level 3. As the PCs moved on to explore the village of Barovia over the next two sessions, I realized that CoS would take a lot longer to run than I had anticipated - particularly since they were interested in all the little side-quests and didn't want to...

I did random readings. The first reading (before Madame Eva) was a bit crappy: Tome - Den of Wolves Holy Symbol - Crypt 31 Sunsword - Blue Water Inn Ally - Casimir Strahd - Study Only one item was in the castle, but the location of Sunsword and the Tome meant that a large portion of Barovia...

I agree to an extent, but it depends on how the other animals are depicted. If only wolves and bats are shown to serve Strahd, than players won't question the ravens. But we know that he at least controls the horses who draw his carriage, and we also know that druids worship him because to them...

Regular animals are all supposedly under Strahd's thrall (if ravens aren't, this requires some sort of explanation). Now, he probably doesn't care about all animals - just predators and those he can use for spying. Most animals would thus likely refer to him as "master," and those he favors...

What about a twist on the classic "clear the rats from my basement" trope? Party after party of adventurers enter the basement, get charmed/dominated, and then act as their pawns and enforcers. When PCs somehow uncover the truth, they must first deal with hordes of low-level NPCs...

Where exactly is the 1,470 pages coming from? Because I own and am currently running CoS and the amount of actual FR material there is less than 1 page.

Chitines, to me, were always a foil for the drow - creatures that party expects to work for the drow but who betray them and aid the PCs ("enemy of my enemy"). I never really saw much use for them beyond that, or beyond a more open conflict between them and the drow which the PCs can use to...

Aberrations as a term were made up in 3.0 and then expanded in later product, tying some of them to the Far Realm (which was never before the case). The turning point was probably Eberron Campaign Setting which implied all aberrations had something to do with Xoriat, a plane similar to the Far...

So, before the Big Crash of 2016, I started a number of threads and replied to an even greater number of threads related to 5E and, in particular, the Curse of Strahd adventure. All my *cough* wisdom *cough* was lost ;) but fear not - I'll try to recreate some of that content here. I hope this...

The thing is... it's only an off-chance if they have the numbers to support the conclusion that hordes of FR fans aren't likely to buy a CS book. I bought every single FR setting book for 3.x. I bought Grand History of the Realms. I bought Elminster's FR which was system-agnostic. I bought SCAG...

The new course is out of necessity, they were downsized to a skeleton crew because the Hasbro overlords deemed them unprofitable. It may be for the best, but I personally found 5E FR completely impossible to run at the current era out of the box (i.e. with SCAG) - everything has changed, but I...

So, are you complaining that they did it, or just recapping a cool moment? If everyone had fun, great job. I'd make sure they have minor side effects from the experience - perhaps one could have delusions of grandeur, another can become obsessed about treasure, the third will enjoy taking...

The problem with dreaming is that it makes no sense unless beholders are made more powerful or you link them to the Far Realm (for example) more tightly. On a vanilla material plane, creating life from scratch via magic (which dreaming implies) is something that even the most powerful...

That's what they tried for 4E, and we all know how that ended... with 5E going back and resurrecting the majority of sacred cows they slaughtered. I don't have a problem if the change is additive, or if I find it more appealing than before. But a lot of changes I'm seeing are making monsters...

Volo's Guide arrived a few days ago, and I am honestly really underwhelmed. It seems to me that a large portion of monster lore from previous editions was ignored, particularly those bits that are relevant to the Realms. The above-mentioned catoblepas was turned into yet another monster where it...

There is already too little granularity and too little sense of improvement in 5E (every time they level, my players spend more time being sarcastic about the time it took them to level up than the time it actually took them to level up). This would... make things worse.

RIFTS was the first RPG I ever played. Loved the setting, loved the incredible amount of options. The system didn't bother me back then, but I would likely find it too arcane for my taste now. I know nothing about the Savage Worlds system. Sell it to me :D

Paizo has no reason to produce material for their biggest competitor. It would be madness. It's either a movie/TV series, or PF2.0. Nothing else is big enough to fit.

Arguably, there were at least three or four more (flavor-wise): 1. The original Sundering (-17600 DR): http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Sundering 2. The Fall of Netheril (-339 DR) 3. The Fall of Jhaamdath (-255 DR) 4. The Dawn Cataclysm (no definitive date and effects are uncertain)...