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Agreed. I think it's really important not to move the goalposts. Given what Jim Ward had to work with at the time, he did a good job for what was, ultimately, a piece of late '70s game writing, not academic scholarship that even had a pretense of being accurate. (I mean, it had nonhuman...

Agreed. I think it's really important not to move the goalposts. Given what Jim Ward had to work with at the time, he did a good job for what was, ultimately, a piece of late '70s game writing, not academic scholarship that even had a pretense of being accurate. (I mean, it had nonhuman...

I've gotten more interested in some alternate settings than just pseudo-Medieval Western Europe. For instance, I'm pondering a campaign world (tentatively named Norrebe, which is "Eberron" backwards) that's modeled on early Modern to 19th Century Europe. However, the big twist is that humans are...

Yeah usually I'd change things but for some reason I hadn't, or at least not much. My House Tregaryan really bore no resemblance to the one from GoT except for the draconic blood and the name. Yeah I'm a lot more careful and my players were cool about it, though to be fair at the time there...

I got busted by this. Way back when I stole the name "House Targaryen" from the very first Game of Thrones book for the ruling house of a country who were Weredragons. I found GoT really tedious and didn't bother reading further in the series. At the time my players hadn't read any of the novels...

At least according to a lot of what WotC has said, a lot more people run their own and/or customize published materials, certainly than WotC would like for their own sales figures. I'll steal stuff from published material but rarely run things as written. Yeah, there can be some really great...

Ranger Rick pretty much requires a raccoon character. Sadly(?) this isn't available, at least not yet.

WotC really over-worried about melee damage buff spells. EW is a weak spell. Crusader's Mantle is better due to the fact that it has mass application but even so it's kind of meh.

Definitely. I wish other classes made use of spell slot burning for class features. The bard as a half caster with the ability to churn slots to buff makes a lot of sense, for instance.

True. My Realms knowledge isn't as good as my Greyhawk knowledge---I ran and/or played in Greyhawk for many years through both 1E and 2E, but only a bit in the Realms. Boccob is kind of halfway between then, because at least in the early days of Greyhawk he didn't have a clergy, has almost no...

I seem to recall Boccob is more important and definitely more distant than Mystra, which is why I thought of Ao, but you're right.

Yeah, exactly. I suppose one could have some faction of the SB that's not nearly so awful as being cultists dedicated to the ultimate destruction of the universe help out.

That seems... odd. The Scarlet Brotherhood are really, really bad. They were likely worshipping/drawing on Tharizdun's power, for one, and even if they weren't directly, they were slaving and slaughtering a whole lot of people. But, changes might well have been made to the overall story, so who...

The parallels between the Greyhawk and Realms pantheons are not exact but as you might suspect there are Greyhawk had four main human cultures which provided gods: The Bakluni, Suel, Oeridian, and Flan, so there are often duplication among different gods. There's no notion of "portfolio" as in...

The Scarlet Brotherhood absolutely don't parallel the Harpers, as the review indicated. They're Suel supremacists and are one of the key villain groups in the setting. They're very much akin to the Zhentarim or Thayans in Forgotten Realms. You could use them as a player faction if you were...

I do think WotC is doing that highly inconsistently and it's mostly oriented around things the devs don't seem to like (e.g., gear). The game is still quite solidly showing its wargame roots and only has a few dipped toes in "new skool" rules here and there, not in a solid enough way to be core...

This basically makes it meaningless as the average of D8-1 and D6 is the same. There might be very slight difference but they're so small as to make no never mind. It also means that the rapier is in all ways inferior to the short sword. It does the same damage and doesn't even have the benefit...

Yeah, this is a good point. The notion that "is chosen" = "is popular" is not good reasoning from the data. Especially for lower level characters, what gets chosen is essentially what they're given.

I think they really missed an opportunity with not having a clear mundane gear upgrade path, with starting gear generally being the worse options. They hint at it with Splint Mail and Plate but really should have done the same thing with some of the better weapons and other armor, making the...

Plays Adele's stalker songs over and over and over and over?