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Unless something has changed dramatically since their last statements on the matter, Brilliant East is permanently dead. I think it was due to kickstart about the time when those youtube vids with Asian gamers reading (and shredding) Oriental Adventures came out, and KP did a bit of a rethink...

I will forever be hopelessly awaiting Brilliant East...

I didn't see the original attribution, but the article is now listed as 'By Kobold Press' with the author link redirecting to the KP website front page. And comments on the article have been disabled. I know we have at least one KP spokesperson here occasionally, who I'm not going to...

WotC doesn't even do this with a fraction of the regularity that KP does. I love the Midgard setting and I'll buy anything that KP puts out for it ... but jeez, I do NOT need to pay for the damn minotaur race yet again, just to pick one example. Pretty sure I have it in five different books...

I clicked on the thread title and was actually going to answer the question seriously, then I read the poll options. A thread like this, just trying to start fights, is a waste of everyone's time. Please be better, OP.

I have mixed feelings about KotBR, but Soth in the original Dragonlance Chronicles was absolutely 100% classic Gothic horror character, even though he happened to appear in a high-fantasy romantic melodrama. Fallen noble knight, romantic obsession, temptation and betrayal, the chance of...

The VAST majority of domains are human-dominated. I did a thread a while back which was a readthrough of the Gazetteers, and almost every domain was heavy-majority human, and a significant majority were specifically called out as being hostile to non-humans (and usually spellcasters too) Off...

I still think there should have been a dragon in Sithicus. It's the Dragonlance domain, after all. A dragon darklord (or at least a dragon presence) would have been a far better option than that silliness with Magda's daughter as replacement Darklord after Soth got yanked out of the domain for...

I've lost the link now, but i remember someone actually asked one of the 4e designers (4e being when tieflings were visually homogenised, after being extremely varied in Planescape 2e and largely ignored in 3e) why tieflings got their now-familiar uniform 'look', and was told it was a mandate...

It's a funny thing though, isn't it - creating a Ravenloft party which has come from 'outside'? The player knows in advance that their backsotry NPCs won't get used because they'll be on the other side of the Mists, and that any plot hooks they carefully lay are likely to go the same way. And...

I'm part-way through the Spelljammer one. It's ok, but it's a bit on the younger side of young adult for my personal preference.

I haven’t (of course) read this, and to be honest I’m unlikely to. But I’m going to offer an old-ish school defence of it from a ravenloft point of view. First, we have a group of PCs pulled into Ravenloft by the Mists. This is of course classic Ravenloft, none of that stuff with native...

Honestly, in 5e there's probably no reason for Drizzt to have any ranger levels at all any more. He originated back in 2e days when that was really the only way for a warrior class to be properly sneaky and wilderness-wise, but a regular fighter with the right set of proficiencies can do that...

Drizzt has had ranger, fighter, and barbarian levels as far back as his 3rd Ed stat block of n the FRCS, and I’m pretty sure the later books had him becoming a monk too. He’s long since divorced himself enough from what a d&d game is actually like that it’s pretty much impossible to represent...

They should do something completely out of left field and make her a warlock or necromancer or something. Not necessarily an evil one, just different enough from her parents.

Yeah, I’m definitely planning on talking to the druid player first (he's playing a Stars druid who doesn’t often wild shape because Starry Form is great, but I’m going to ask if he’s ok with it anyway)

So, I have a player in my game who is playing a dhampir alchemist artificer. His character concept is of a studious doctor (this is War of the Lance Dragonlance, so healing magic is largely unknown and doctors/healers are actually useful...) who was deliberately infected with dhampirism by...

I like the idea of alternate prime stats for cleric because it gives you an option to play a cleric who ISN'T a perceptive bastion of immovable willpower. You should have the option to play a goodhearted cleric who's nonetheless a bit oblivious and prey to the temptations of the flesh, for...

I'd like a choice between Charisma and Int (and I offer this option, in the game i run). Surely the classic warlock archetype is the socially awkward loner who makes a devil's deal for power and recognition? Forcing all warlocks into the high-Charisma model model just cuts out too many options...

You mean to say … you don’t know already? Sounds like a skill issue. Such an inferior character build…