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Third progress report in a row: (I need to make more progress posting things other than progress reports!) I've added a ten-page list of sources to the end of the Forgotten Realms Travel Guide. For the most part, the list is sorted by topic. A few sources appear under a "general information"...

Perhaps his tragic death will inspire a Dedra redemption arc (or an "I gave my everything to the Empire and this is how you repay me?" arc, in which she catches Andor to prove to herself she can, then lets him go because her bosses don't deserve to benefit from her thankless efforts).

Fittingly, it's the necromancer fan who revives this thread after it was dead for three months :P

I would have liked that, too. On the other hand, assuming the second half of season 2 is decent, having only two seasons of Andor makes my ideal Star Wars viewing order a reality: Episode I: Andor, Season 1 Episode II: Andor, Season 2 Episode III: Rogue One Episode IV: A New Hope Episode V...

The proposed law also creates an obligation for any company that makes GenAI available to Californians. That company must respond any time it receives a written request from a registered copyright owner, even if the company never used any of that individual's copyrighted material. And each time...

I enjoy creative writing too much to let an AI do it for me. Everything I write is purely artisanal. :)

Always a fun theme to play with. I'm guessing from the inclusion of "Air" in your "Land, Sea and Air" header that there might be some newly-invented zeppelins in this world? If so, I imagine the Fey aren't terribly happy to see those crowding the skies!

I wasn't familiar with that webcomic, but it looks quite fun! Thanks for sharing!

Another quick progress report: I've acquired a few new illustrations over the past couple weeks, so I'm playing around with some new looks on a few pages. I can use any left-over illustrations to fill white space on the Credits page and the spill-over page for the Table of Contents. (The book...

Since you asked so kindly, I started this thread with a setting featuring robots, vampires, and wombats.

Some random ideas for campaign settings. Here's a setting inspired by a tangent in another thread: The Down Below Three species of humanoid wombats inhabit the caverns known as the Down Below: bare-nosed wombats (who have the same traits as Halflings); hairy-nosed wombats (who have the same...

Hey, don't blame the Forgotten Realms for the prevalence of dwarves, elves, and halflings! That setting is just a kitchen sink that makes use of whatever tropes happen to be in the Player's Handbook. If the core species in the first Player's Handbook had been androids, vampires, and wombats...

Squid Game?

...and H'Catha, with the Sun counting as the ninth planet

It's a kitchen sink in the sense that the DM can shoehorn in whatever faction, NPC, or small nation they want to put there. The Border Kingdoms chapter in Power of Faerun explicitly states "there is no such thing as an accurate history or even map of the Border Kingdoms," and adds that the...

My statement applies to all definitions of the word "hiding," without need for context or knowledge of intent. Per the rules, the DM determines when conditions are appropriate for X. By definition, X = Z. Therefore, per the rules, the DM determines when conditions are appropriate for Z. That...

Nentir River in Nentir Vale looks like it would map fairly well onto the Scelptar River in the Border Kingdoms south of the Lake of Steam (and the Border Kingdoms are the real kitchen sink of the Realms). But from what little I know of Nentir Vale, its climate doesn't match the warm climate of...

The rules say, "The DM decides when conditions are appropriate for hiding." That remains the rule no matter what definition one uses for the word "hiding." One definition of the word "hiding" is "the state of being hidden." So the DM decides when conditions are appropriate for (among other...

None of that needs to be explicitly stated in the rules. It's true by definition. The words "hiding" and "hidden" aren't capitalized, so they aren't keywords; their normal, English-language definitions apply.

I guess I'm just not seeing the ambiguity in the updated rules, probably because I'm not seeing where it says anything about "remaining hidden." The Hide action says you gain a condition "while hidden" (which is just the phrase "while hiding" written in passive form). The DM determines when...