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I think it would work. I've also dealt with players accustomed to more magic-as-reliable-technology style spells turning up their nose at DCC's system. A good option is the Magician from The Dying Earth setting for DCC, who casts spells using what they call Rote Magic; its approach is very...

I only have a couple, but I have plans to get to one of them. A series I'd love to run but I don't know if I'll ever get to is the Illithid Monstrous Arcana trilogy from 2nd Edition: A Darkness Gathering, Masters of the Eternal Night, and Dawn of the Overmind. I'd even love to convert them to...

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I strongly encourage you to take a look at the Eberron setting. It asked these same kinds of questions and had novel results. A nation that reanimates its dead to replentish the army, a guild that mass-produced sentient constructs to be used in war, low level magic such as streetlamps in major...

One of my first published pieces was on a city loosely based on Çatalhöyük in Turkey.

I set an entire 3.5 campaign in Ysgard 20 ish years ago. It was great being able to stage massive, tough battles and have the PCs feel like real heroes. The downside was, after that campaign ended (invasion by Azathoth and the Lovecraftian Elder Gods etc), it was hard to interest my players in...

In 30+ years of gaming, I don't think I've ever come across someone with an attitude/approach such as you describe, except in cases where the standard PHB player races were the only intelligent/sentient races in a given setting. In any case, excepting the above I'm with you. In fact, my user...

This image is THE thri-kreen IMO. My first D&D character was a thri-kreen [psionicist/ranger], and this picture is 90% of why I decided on it.

The artist gets a special callout in the credits, actually. Dunno how much they got paid tho.

It actually does. Sahu appears on the big Zakhara map included in the Land of Fate box set, and even on the map on page 13 of the original Arabian Adventures book. Steve Kurtz wrote the Ruined Kingdoms and Cities of Bone sourceboxes for Al-Qadim, as well as the Complete Book of Necromancers...

New player is learning fast! (as in, he's 11 years old, received a 2024 D&D Player's Handbook this past Christmas, and is now running his own game starting tonight. For context, I run DCC for him and my son over Roll20 every Sunday, and today was maybe the 5th or 6th session he's ever played of...

We always used the onset times. And Type E poison remains the golden child (if you have access to it) or the absolute worst (if you have to face against it).

This is the way I've always done gods, at least after I got over my Dragonlance phase. I really loved the way Thule put it all together, and the section on the development of different kinds of magic is the kind of thing that all campaign settings should address.

I loved the idea of spell components when I first read the Dragonlance Chronicles (not realizing at the time what D&D was or that the books had anything to do with it). The need to have specific, bizarre items in order to make magic happen just seemed so . . . realistic, and was a novel concept...

I feel this one 100%. Of the three most-delayed projects I've backed, two are sets of miniatures that more than doubled in size due to stretch goals, and the third is a book that became a set of books and then more and more and then the creator apparently got completely overwhelmed.

It's not uncommon IME for projects to run a month or two late, but typically the creators at least stay in touch through the process. I have a few TTRPG-adjacent projects (soaps in the shape of dice, miniatures, etc) that are really late, like by years, but in terms of actual TTRPGs I've been...

I vote Astonishing Sorcerers and Swordsmen of Hyperboria. Technically I mean the Second Edition, since of the three editions published, only the second is in a single volume.