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Mostly I need the monster stat blocks, and am curious what the official take on some of the magic items are, though I didn't notice bamsticks or pendriks in there

Yes, if you dislike the guilds this is not the setting for you. Just like Dark Sun is not for people who dislike psionics and you have to like an age of sail/spacefaring style game for Spelljammer. If you dislike magitech and dragonmarks Eberron doesn't have much unique for you. If you...

I want to preface this lore dump by saying it is based on what I remember of the first set of books and some of the R&D design background. It has been many years and I am too tired to dig out the books to reference. Plus time has progressed since then. In the beginning the forces of order and...

I see a bit of the misunderstanding. Each guild controls much more than a typical guild in other settings. I plan on posting a bigger thing when I get to an actual computer to give the rough outline of each guilds initial purpose, and their general side effects. They are less trade guilds and...

Depends on which product, food is usually a Golgari shipment up canyon walls to the city proper using zombie guards. Izzet is transporting infrastructure pieces or magitech, probably using elemental labor. Orzhov and Azorious is likely VIPS in luxury accommadations. Raids are most likely...

It kinda does tell you all that. 95% of all commerce is guild related. Threats are usually other guilds or wildlife (which are cared for, created and propogated by a specific guild). Clothing is a little less tight, outside of uniforms though but much of that can be used to determine guild...

Quote doesn't work on my phone, but I get that Paul, and many others don't quite get and it is very hard to be clear that the guilds are not JUST factions, they are also the magic, infrastructure and geography of the world. In many cases guildmasters are semi-divine embodiments of concepts. To...

I like Ravnica as a setting, though I prefer it as an isolated world with Guildpact intact instead of the later meta narrative. A world that has magically bound a bunch of rivals into a symbiotic relationship to prevent the destruction of the world is rife for lots of different plots even...

One of the weird things in the setting was that while many of the guildmasters had achieve-supremacy-of-the-world plans, the less insane ones didn't really bother because, for example the recycling and farming group can't really replace the magical and mechanical infrastructure group or vice...

The whole place is urban sprawl, much of it abandoned and overgrown, with 10th being the capital and headquarters.

My knowledge is all from the first trilogy (set) when the guildpact was still magically binding. As far as guild politics go, Rakdos (cult of allegedly cannibalistic hedonists) and Gruul (wilderness guarding tribes) care little for such things. In fact the only times the Rakdos guild leader...

He is an aasimar (only distinguishing feature is weird color eyes that glow when he uses the consumptive radiance as does everything else) former guard using a dadao (eventually Brotherhood from the Final Fantasy series) who serves either the Raja of River's Rapture or the Shah of Sanguine Seas...

Yeah. Southern Asian greatsword weilders are not common.

I have just finished working on a (very cultured) barbarian from an India-based continent and have been struggling to find a decent portrait. Everything tends to be more western-style clothing. Does anyone know a good place to look for alternatives?

Mostly because my job is boring and I amuse myself with random thought experiments.

After Xanathar's came out I was able to put my finger on something that was bothering me about some classes/subclasses. It was starting to feel like some were getting very heavily into the design space of others. With this thought I starting thinking about what made up the essential nature of...

Why do they need to change spells so often? When I play a caster like that I use the swap to make sure old spells aren't obsolete, which generally only happens as I level up. Examples include getting rid of disguise self , burning hands or Tasha's Uncontrollable Laughter when I pick up alter...

I keep seeing these and wondering if the problem is in the expectations of HOW a person contributes. I saw a bit debate about shield master in another thread where the argument was it was useless due to how bonus action timing works. It seemed to me that the shield specific features were...

TL; DR summary (or what I'm gathering) Cleave is good on high AC low HP targets Sharpshooter is good while flying and outdoors in general where you can dictate range of engagement (and your party is cool with waiting at your max range) -5/+10 is good when you have lots of attacks and are either...

I suspect he wasn't particularly concerned with cover as just being not visible as a target at all. Even though a flying creature 600 feet away can get an angle to see into a trench or over a wall, it is probably a fairly steep angle at that kind of distance and will take a good bit of...