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I foresee a Greyhawk 5e24 book coming out, but rather than being yet another set of detailed splatbooks on the world, I see it as more of a guidebook to GMs looking to develop their own version of Greyhawk. It'll give ideas and campaign and adventure seeds to riff off, and perhaps some...

Mel Gibson.

Maybe because it's the title and subject of the whole thread? Maybe you should consider opening a new thread on Tiamat's origins? It's pretty easy to do.

You seem to be completely missing the point that Greyhawk was meant as a world for players to develop into their own unique version. It is intentionally "left alone" so that it doesn't step on the players imagination to roll their own Greyhawk.

Rare is a good way to put it. Magic is not visible in daily life, but the few who know it, can do powerful stuff. Instances of magic visible in the general world would be rare as well, confined to ruins or underground, or very specialized places. You're not going to see a magical fountain of...

As long as we're talking new books for Glorantha, and the ongoing (great) series of Cult books, I would love to see a series of Region books start to make their way out. Each book would have a geography and cities of the area (fold out map?), cultures and peoples, cults, points of interest...

The key to running RuneQuest is to focus on adventures. There's a LOT of background lore, but don't get too caught up in it and just focus on a straightforward adventure like you would any other game, then slowly start to sprinkle in some of the lore bits and strangeness that is Glorantha. I'd...

They have such a good battle strategy and buffed stats that they made short work of the party before any gas was needed. That might have been the “if the slavelords are losing section.” I’ll have to look at it again but It might have been better just to skip straight to the gas.

Well, we're 140 pages in, and the topic has meandered a bit. ;)

Even as written, they could have had the room filled with gas to knock out the entire party rather than have buff bosses beat the party into submission. I enjoyed the tough battle though, and I do recall it was the first time the players "lost" a fight and had to reassure them they were not all...

Losing all gear, getting drained a level (undead) were big hotspots back then. We had a player who had his memory completely wiped by a Mind Flayer at one point. The way we handled it was doing a time forward (multiple years), where the other characters worked on their holds and the wiped...

Even back in our 1e days, I don't think we ever got to the point where there was a total "players vs DM" mentality. I tried to be tough but fair, and we didn't see a lot of "gotcha moves" on either the player or GM side of the screen. I will admit I might have been harder on some players if they...

It would also require the primary goal of journalism to be reporting facts over opinion and over amassing revenue for the parent media outlet.

I think we're only now starting to see skepticism over claims in all forms of media. It's taken a firehose of dis/misinformation over the past 6 years to do it, but people are starting to ask for more forms of confirmation before accepting the first report out of Twitter or CNN or Fox or YouTube.

Someone like that would be ejected from my table.

I’ll be one of the few to agree here, but I might use the words “sets a high bar” instead of “adversarial.” Like a teacher who is a tough grader and getting an A means some hard work. There’s a fine line here, but I do enjoy challenging adventures - really feels line you’ve accomplished...

I'd actually be interested in her perspective of the D&D culture in her early days. She'd have good insight into what was happening. We know Judges Guild was pretty misogynistic at that time as well.

Here is where Jennell Jacquays insight would be helpful. The reaction when she transitioned is instructive in how enlightened (or not) nerd culture was at that time.

Couldn’t you swap in monsters from the Dragonbane Bestiary? RQ used to do a LOT of D&D monster conversions…

Yep, it's both. But some (probably more) behave according to societal norms and upbringing while others behave according to something fundamentally broken. Society can make it hard (or easy) for bad personality traits to arise, but ultimately that person's attitudes need to change internally in...