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Mimics, lurkers, trappers, and cloakers (oh my!) are just the tip of the weird in the D&D baseline. The room is going to kill you from all angles and the lone humanoid in the room is a doppelganger who will replace one of your hirelings once rescued. Don't look too hard at magic items like the...

I am with you on the deceptive trailers thing, but a good indication is when they start to include new footage in trailers rather than reshuffle the same scenes. There was a lot more Hugh Grant in this footage release and it seems to hold up with the other released footage, plus the new...

Most of my campaigns have an element of weirdness to them, even Greyhawk. Spelljammer lends itself to cranking up the weirdness to 11. Dark Sun is a different kind of weird from regular fantasy settings. Eberron is pretty weird too. Weird is kind of hard to quantify though. You can have farm...

Glad to hear that creating new scenarios for the board game seems easy to do. That was my biggest worry is that the game could be fun but limited in replayability. Ultimately, what we are learning about these nostalgia settings is that everyone made the setting their own in a lot of ways. The...

Yes, except it is not Asmodeus, D&D Lucifer stand-in, chewing cinders at the bottom of Hell is it? As for California, you prove my point. California has Death Canyon and the Bay Area, Mount Shasta, and Redwood National Forest. It is not a homogenous land. That is Arizona. ;)

I would counter that you can have a sea of fire with fire whales and the obsidian lighthouse in any other setting. The awesome part of your idea is the image of Fire whales pulling ceramic skiffs across a Sea of Molten Glass to attack all that the party holds dear. Does it need to be from a land...

Oh I'm sorry. I thought this was abuse. Arguments are down the hall. Here is my argument. City of Brass is cool. The Elemental Plane of fire is filler. Levistus trapped in Hell Ice is iconic. A whole layer of Ice Hell is lazy. The problem with planes is they are giant sections of blank with...

The best part of Eberron's planes is that they interact with the world. You don't need to go to Fernia, there are zones on Khorvaire touched by Fernia yielding impossibly hot jungles or infernal deserts. The towers of SHarn can only climb so high because Sharn is coterminous with Syrania. The...

Because the planes are boring when finite. Adding endless amounts of boredom does not suddenly spark joy. Or the plane has to have sections of 'not the plane' for adventures to be able to take place there. Why not just have the 'not the plane' then? Worked for the Shadowfell eating the negative...

I am sure the owl is just lost. Thank you very much.

Stupid, arbitrary schools...

But there is no need to be infinite or separate from the Prime to make a new map coordinate. Rope Trick doesn't need a whole infinite plane. A different plane should rewrite the rules. The Astral kind of does this, no need for food or air, no aging, travel by thought. Hell shouldn't just be a...

The planes are boring. Even Hell is boring. The problem is that planes are infinite, but we treat them as different mono flavors of Prime Material. Hell is Lawful and Evil Prime. The Plane of Fire is hot and flickery Prime. The Feywild is Extra Prime and Shadowfell is faded, depressed Prime...

It would be old notes. Part of the success of Eberron in 5E is Keith reinterpreting his work into the new rules. It isn't just dogmatic devotion it is innovation and assimilation. Who would be the one voice to pick up the reins for EGG? From the Ashes already fractured some of the fans of the...

Absolutely. I mean he could have gone full 3PP and filed the serial numbers off to produce Ebberon: Rebuilding from the Previous Conflict, but using the DMsGuild lets him use the full IP and produce new material. I wish we could have similar access for Greyhawk and Dark Sun, but alas, we will...

Eberron has greatly benefitted from the continuing presence and involvement of Keith Baker. There is no other setting that is as connected to one person, albeit with sizable input from others, into the present. He is a steady hand on the tiller that continues to keep Eberron refreshed and...

The only gripe I have with the 5E warlock is that Eldritch Blast is a cantrip instead of a class ability. I want the Pact of the Blade or an invocation to turn their Eldritch Blast into an Eldritch Spear or Sword, other than that it is perfect. I do think the 3 lanes of customization, Pact...

First off, love that cover. Second, this is going to be awesome. Very excited for the Lords of Dust to get more page count. Keep an eye on Hellcow's blog for spoileriffic content as he had for Exploring Eberron. Need to tell me wife that I have something to add to my Christmas list. Tangent- Is...

The problem is that if WotC responds to the rumor, it sometimes reinforces the rumor rather than squash it. Maybe they are seeking a way to protect/give a leg up their nascent Virtual Table Top against existing competitors. I don't know. I doubt any corporate tweet or statement will be coming...

Exploring Eberron does warrant its price. It is a fantastic book. It is, however, a niche product. There are not as many Eberron enthusiasts as regular 5E purchasers. EE fulfills the promise of DMsGuild. There is a lot of chaff on the platform, but EE is the product that can surpass even many of...