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Tim Powers is a major trip.

The term had nothing to do with Sterling or Gibson, and was a joke about how the writers doing that sort of thing were not in tune with the "punk" thing: "Although many works now considered seminal to the genre were published in the 1960s and 1970s, the term "steampunk" originated largely in...

Robert Jordan hated those covers so much, but couldn't get out of them because contracts. He would mercilessly mock them at signings...

I think the DMG does a good job setting up "The First World" as an explanation why one DM's game can have any given piece of D&D in it: infinite echoes and reusable pieces.

How dare you take a reasonable and balanced position, in clear violation of the sacred traditions of the fandom.

I crunched the numbers on them back in the day, they were basically just Feats same as Supernatural Gifts. Reworking them to be in line with the new PHB would make a lot of sense.

Technically contemporary, but I found his work already dated 20+ years ago when I was a teenager getting into 3E. Time has not been kind to it, unlike say the 2014 core books. But again, the new books are a new high watermark for D&D art.

Update those Species options, change the Dark Gifs to 2024 Backgrounds with distinct Feats, develop a few Campaign Models and throw in some Spoooooky Bastions qnd Monsters...got the makings of a book.

That was TSR's official line in 1E for the FR, and Ed Greenwood ar least was always clear about that. What Greenwowas also doing, that I only realized recently, was essentially DM a huge shared campaign with the Lore Enthusiasts. He always made it clear thst DMs should make the FR their own...

A "Rules Expansion" similar to what we are seeing for Ebwrron actually seem to me to be perfect to finish those Settings: some player options, some more Mosnters, and more importantly those Campaign models.

Eberron as a Magic the Gathering Srt would be perfect: the major nations in the Last War and various factions soap interestingly to the 5 Color.

Personally, I always kind of reacted negatively to Wayne Reynolds style, and I do not feel time has been kind to it. Feels very 90s, in an unfortunate way. For me, that is the lowest of bars and honestly always held Eberron back as it did the rest of 3E. The new books, on the other hand...

1920s Pulpiness would be a lot more distinct in a Magic: the Gathering card...which might be a factor in the D&D art design at this point.

Of the 8, 2 are already explicitly Ravenloft, 5 are super good fits for Ravenloft...and 1 is Hexblade, which would fit well enough honestly. It is spooky Dark Fantasy, and Sentient Edgelord Weapons are a bit of pseudo-Gothic horror in Fantasy IMO.

Yes, but each one would fit in Ravenloft quite well: we don't have proof thstt this is for a Ravenloft Rules Supplement, but thst model is certainly a reasonable fit for the material as presented. Re printing every Ravenloft Subclass is, at least, notable.

Yeah, not only was he bring two-faced about royalties, but his royalties came close to destroying the conpany. Podcast is pretty readily available, may be bloodpressure raising for you...

That's literally every Subclass found in van Richten's Guide...?

Your record is, indeed, pretty good. However, this UA seems pretty clearly for the October book, so whatever theme the October book is seems tied to these options...which are not Lorwyn related. The Lorwyn Card set is next year so after this UA I surmise thst the Lorwyn RPG tie-in will be...

Iton the cover in big letters for Forge of the Artificer.

We do not know, but given the UA a Forge of the Artificer expansion seems most likely.