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Up until now Ravenloft—for me—was anything but action (as in action movies.) It's been, essentially, gothic horror. My template would be like the heroes encounter something creepy, they get scared and horrified, they realize that in the long run they're up against something essentially...

Excellent post, though I somewhat miss the inclusion of crucial world-building/altering factors as magic, psionics, and (giant or otherwise impactful) creatures and monsters.

are you sure this is the galaxy you're looking for

I hope you're not complaining about people complaining about people. (Because it appears so.) 🙃

Intriguing. Now meet Harkon Lukas (with a "k", not a "c", so no, he's not related to George), the Meistersinger from the original Realm of Terror boxed set — as illustrated by the brilliant Stephen Fabian, whose artwork defined the look and feel of the Ravenloft of the old days. (Note also...

Yet more superheroes.

As an aside, this is what FASA made official in their Earthdawn game — a "what if there was a reason for all the dungeons, treasure, and demons in your fantasy world" fantasy alternate to D&D — back in the day with Thera and Throal.

No, it doesn't, really. If D&D needs something, it's a friendly guide to help people make more interesting, intriguing and engaging (and engageable) personalities and backgrounds for their characters, focusing on motivations, traits, and so on. Having weirder and weirder races, and having them...

Why not go the other way around? Play (A)D&D 1e/2e, but with a backport of the proficiency-stuff and the skills of 5e?

In my take the most vanilla is what you get from the PHB itself, and even there ignoring most of the fluff: just what the game mechanics and the essential fluff required to build a simple character of each class describe, discarding specificities like entity names and lore, and so on. And, to...

Beholder → Be older Orc → Orb Troll → Stroll Dragon → Drag on

Numan (note: it's Numan, not Numen) is awesome indeed (though I was a bit surprised to see his name pop up here.) Check his live releases as well, they're some of the best. A few examples that I think are worth mentioning, off the top of my head (careful, some of the videos linked are...

Restrict to suit theme / campaign. My players are OK with that, because they understand and like the themes we pick. For example, for Ravenloft,, it's usually humans only, with a half-elf or two at most. (Well, certain domains allow more and others, but we don't usually use those.) That suits...

Is it just me or does the undead creature on p.21 of the Adventures Book curiously resemble Eddie, the mascot of Iron Maiden? :D

Yes, it does, thanks, especially the bit where you explain that you held back the release, and that this contest had, in fact, a release date restriction. See, I'm also from Europe. In fact, I'm an hour ahead of Scotland. I simply thought the makers of this list/contest weren't aware of SLA2...

Sure, time zones and everything. I'm sorry, but I'm not really getting your point, though. The drivethru page of the book literally says "This title was added to our catalog on December 31, 2020." (in the Product Information column on the right edge of the page.)

Well, those who voted for SLA Industries 2nd edition, rejoice. It seems like it's already out in pdf over at drivethru (if I'm not mistaken.) Apparently, it was released December 31, 2020.

What do you mean trapped in a decade? Like they would last forever, repeating from 0-9? After 1999, I'd be back in 1990? Also, what does "live there" mean? For how long? Would I be aging as the decade loops over and over and over, or would I also be rolling back? Would I be forgetting the past...

As a sidenote, have you tried Star Wars: Rebels? I liked it way more than Clone Wars. Much closer to the original trilogy in tone and feel.

In my opinion some (let me emphasize that: not everyone, just some) people pick weird races because they (these players) simply can't or don't feel like designing a proper, interesting background and personality (traits, motivation, and so on) for their player characters, and hope that the...