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I think the section on Infernal Hierarchy in the 2024 DMG states that he has the power of a lesser god, but I only glanced at it. Asmodeus has undergone considerable promotion since WotC took over the game, although they seem to have backed off from the "fundamental creative force of the...

Interesting, considering that Ravenloft launched a year before the World of Darkness. This is true. I can't lay hands on it, but there's a line in one of the vintage Ravenloft products about how PCs, for all their trials and tribulations, should be able to win in the end.

Are they still deifying him and/or suggesting he's Not That Bad and Has Good Reasons or at least a fundamental cosmic role?

So what does the lore dictionary (or the rest of the DMG) say about Asmodeus?

Like the introduction to the PHB? "Naturally, every attempt has been made to provide all of the truly essential information necessary for the game: the skeleton and muscle which each DM will flesh out to create the unique campaign. You will find no pretentious dictums herein, no baseless limits...

The impression I get of the current "official" style is "Seattle Swashbuckling & Socializing," but that could be a slanted view. :)

It was only Birthright, which was going to get repackaged as a hardcover, and based on what I recall of the planned supplements, have a greater focus on the Shadow World.

It was also one of the first victims of WotC's "One Game, One System, Two (at Most) Settings" philosophy of the late 90s/early 2000s, with a major relaunch planned for 1998 being scuttled at the last minute.

On reflection, based on the descriptions from the novels, it feels particularly addictive and seductive, prone to producing fanatical and idolatrous devotion to 'the magic.' That fits in with certain perspectives on Krynn. ;)

Dragonlance should have a more 'tidal' and/or 'theurgic' feel, given the moons'/gods' influence on High Sorcery.

At this point, I'm convinced that the only way to play D&D is to play it 'wrong', at least according to some authority on the subject. :)

My mistake; it's in his Red Box writeup (Domains and Denizens, pp. 46-47), which rewrites the Darklords entry somewhat: "In life Anhktepot was a 13th-level priest of the sun god Ra, and he still wields the power of that position (although it isn't Ra who grants his spells ...)."

Thanks for the citations, Voadam. Minor nitpick: It is specified that it is not from Ra, though.

It's been showing up (with genre-specific flavoring) in the redone Companions for the Adventure Edition. Jacksonian heresy! :)

It was ambiguous; the writeup for Alfred Timothy in the Black Box says it appears that he's getting his spells from the 'wolf god', rather than Ravenloft itself. (Yagno Petrovna, by contrast, was always clearly getting his spells from Ravenloft/the Dark Powers.) Two possibilities were suggested...

I only glanced at the last bit, but the impression I got is "probably, but there's a backdoor in to let them happen if we change our minds or never get to do anything else."

Reminds me of something one TSR designer said on Usenet about thirty years ago when someone was making a similar accusation, combined with the usual "T$R" talking points: "If TSR was interested in going the WotC route [this was just after WotC had shut down their entire RPG department] and just...

Thanks for the confirmation. I have anecdotal evidence that suggest things started falling off midway through the original module series, based on seeing massive quantities of DL9 and DL12-14--still in shrinkwrap--at a local game store in North Dakota in the early 2000s. Is that a fluke, or does...

Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus. I admire Optimus, but identify a bit more with Magnus.

Moving Soth to Ravenloft was getting him out of the corner: Post-Legends Dragonlance was pretty much forbidden territory awaiting the hoped-for return of Weis & Hickman to the setting, and AIUI, the "Dargaard Keep" adventure in DL16 more or less wrote Soth out of the setting anyway. He got to do...