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I was reading the story about the possible publication of Jeff Grubb's lost Mystara sourcebook, but I was more intrigued by the casual mention of a new setting that he unsuccessfully pitched to TSR. He called it Storm Front, or sometimes Stormfront, and I think it's great. The basic premise is...

I like what I see, but it's hard to judge the wizard class without the spell list available yet. The class refers to some spells specifically: identify, detect magic, detect thoughts, guidance, and prestidigitation. Are those spells going to be changed from their o5e versions? I'm looking at...

I'm not sure what this sentence is supposed to mean, exactly. Aren't skill and talent effectively the same thing? Or is this meant to highlight a distinction between learned skill and innate talent or something like that?

I love the tables, especially the behavior and tactics tables. My initial impression is that results from those tables are more likely to make it into play than lines from a monster's description essay. Every monster encountered in play is always going to have some kind of behavior or tactics...

This is all great! Converting nearly every monster is a huge undertaking and I'm glad you're doing it. I especially like the example treasure bundles. It might be nice to have a note in the stat block for when something in a particular bundle affects it. So you might have "Actions1" for the...

Just from a usability standpoint, I really like a spell index like this with a short description of each spell. That makes it a lot easier to find exactly the spell you are looking for.

Good point. Obviously this depends on what the Level Up Wizard looks like, but if every spellcaster can find improved versions of their spells, that kinda steps on the toes of an otherwise Wizard-specific class feature. If your party has a wizard and a sorcerer, would both characters be able to...

I like the spell schools and standardized spell ranges as keywords, but I'd like to see those keywords used elsewhere in the game too. Do you plan to make weapons use the same range categories? I also like seeing the class names in the spell descriptions. That's a big usability improvement...

That's true, stipulation of venue doesn't automatically control what law applies. However, the next sentence in the contract after the stipulation of venue is almost certainly going to establish what law applies. Obviously, we haven't seen the contract and are just guessing here, but any...

Not quite. Federal courts try cases of federal law, but they also try cases when the parties involved are from different states. Margaret Weis LLC is in Wisconsin, Tracy Hickman is in Utah, and Wizards of the Coast is headquartered in Washington state but is owned by Hasbro in Rhode Island. The...

Most Americans don't know the difference either, and it won't change the outcome, but the distinction is Federal court vs state court. You are absolutely right. Since this suit is only about one contract for one set of books, there probably won't be that much to find in discovery. We'll...

Something to keep in mind here, the details in the filed lawsuit are only Weis and Hickman's side of the story. That's not to say that anything in the complaint here is wrong, just that we haven't heard WotC's response or even seen a copy of the contract in question. Corporate lawyers tend to...

I'm really interested to see where this goes. I'm always in favor of more options and resources, even if they're not all ones I personally want to use. One thing I'm skeptical about is how well the backwards-compatibility will work. If the new book changes too many of the baseline assumptions...

I've been enjoying the free content that Wizards of the Coast was making available during Covid, but they haven't posted anything new since Jun 18. Have they made any kind of announcement about whether they plan to continue that? Obviously, they don't have to give me any more free stuff if...

It sounds to me like what the situation really needs here is better, clearer communication. If a DM doesn't want to have wizards in their party, the DM should just say "no wizards". If you're strict at character creation, that prevents the problem. Even if you don't want to fully ban wizards...

Something that I think we're leaving out in this discussion. If we replace "race", we'll also have to replace "racial". Replacements like "ancestry" or "cultural" already have adjective forms : "ancestral" and "cultural". Other replacements ("people", "species", and "heritage", for example)...

I might be alone in this, but I'd really like to see the Onomancer's naming powers interact in some way with the verbal components of spells. Maybe Resonants work better when there's a verbal component, or don't work as well when there isn't one? The rules around components mostly don't matter...

Any word yet on who was involved in writing this one?