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That's a pretty harsh judgment to make about all those creators who put time into justifying lore changes, both within official D&D and across a wide variety of other long-running media (Marvel Comics being one of the most significant examples). I don't think such creators were being...

I'm hoping to reach 98 books by the end of the year, but doubting I'll make it at this point. (Maybe I need a stack of graphic novels.)

To be fair, by the time those came out it had explicitly been stated that 5e canon was going to be treated separately from older editions' canon (as opposed to 5e Forgotten Realms, which included exactly those sorts of explanations in SCAG, or 5e Eberron, which never had a metaplot to reset).

i.e. any change in Ravenloft lore could be attributed to the Dark Powers. Agreed that isn't how it's presented in VRGTR (in the final product, anyway), but it could be.

Finished Multiverses: An Anthology of Alternate Realities, edited by Preston Grassmann. You'd think with that title it'd be a collection of, well, multiverse stories, but it's actually divided into three flavors: Parallel Universes: Stories about what happens when the multiverse opens up to...

I'd say that's more like the MCU films gradually expanding the setting from the world of Iron Man, to include the Hulk, and Thor, and Captain America, etc. etc. None of that contradicts the events of the Iron Man films, but they do change the context. Likewise, revealing that Barovia is just one...

There are different levels of lore change - I gather @Micah Sweet is more concerned with reboots (where just about everything is changed, and the original lore becomes largely incompatible) than retcons (where specific bits of lore are changed, but the larger narrative is preserved).

In addition to the above, at least one of the designers in VRGTR (the one who worked on Valachan) outright said they'd written their version as a continuation of the original. Plus there are Easter eggs like Dominic d'Honaire's appearance in an asylum in the otherwise very different Dementlieu...

My two AD&D 2e campaigns were contiguous, but my Mutants & Masterminds campaign was episodic. Our D&D 5e campaign was episodic, but me and some other DMs were regretting that after a few years, because it made it harder to invest players in the campaign as an ongoing story (especially when...

Unless, of course, it's one of those people. Then this rule doesn't apply, apparently.

Much delayed, but finally finished my fourth ghost story book from Halloweenmonth, the one for "south": Haunted Virginia, by Pamela Kinney. Pretty eclectic collection of Virginia folklore, mixing up ghost stories, cryptids, more general myths and legends (including a handful of Native American...

Six months later, returned to "Castle Redcrown" with a new experiment... pitting a 5e party against it. Rules: The players operated under D&D 5e (2014) rules, with access to all the material in the 2014 PHB. The monsters and obstacles, however, operated under OD&D rules as much as possible. So...

Background: Started with 2e, sorta continued into 3.0 (our 2e campaign continued with some 3e mods like ascending AC). Switched to playing Mutants & Masterminds during the 3.5 era, but still paid attention to 3.5 products - though less as time went on, and bought far fewer. Checked out of D&D...

Because they also want to fight.

Who watches the watchmen?

My original copy of the 1e Fiend Folio, my first ever D&D book, bought years before I actually began playing. It actually isn't suitable for reading anymore, and I bought a better quality copy later, and I mainly use the PDF for reference nowadays... but I can't bear to part with the original.

I'll keep an eye out, thanks!

Sure, but I doubt the entire state has only ever had just two abandoned communities...

This thread fell off my alerts, so catching up... Every year, for Halloweenmonth (a.k.a. October), I pick out four collections of "true" ghost and supernatural stories to read - one each for north, east, south, and west (usually meaning U.S., but not always). This year, it was: Abandoned...

They accuse the technically unnamed authors of Greyhawk of deliberate misogyny. The authors of Greyhawk are Gygax and Kuntz. Not engaging with the rest of the debate here, but felt that should be pointed out.