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In white-room isolation, the only beef I have with them is the beef I have against pretty much any blockchain product, which is that they’re horrifyingly wasteful consumers of energy at dubious value during a time of increasing climate crisis. But I have the same objection to ludicrously big...

Yeah, this. When it comes to organised play (which is a tiny proportion of the rpg market, let’s face it), there’s pretty much nothing the blockchain can do that a very boring traditional database couldn’t do. And outside organised play, there’s no use case for this stuff whatsoever. It looks a...

There hasn’t been a ravenloft thread on enworld in years that didn’t eventually end up in this sort of discussion. It’s inevitable, roll with it.

I’m adapting that one for my current Dragonlance campaign. It’s a much better way to tell Soth’s story than the whole ‘shapes in the fire’ thing that SotDQ does.

I’m a bit fuzzy on the exact timing, but I think Al-Qadim is the only one that missed out. (Pharazia is vaguely Arabic-coded in a somewhat cringeworthy ‘it’s middle eastern, let’s make our Darklord a Mohammed analog, nothing problematic there!’ kinda way, but isn’t Al-Qadim even remotely) Which...

I suspect that this is not a capability that's THAT hard to do. It's far from uncommon. The difficulty, I suspect, will be in the FG legacy code, windowing toolkit/library etc etc. It can be much harder to retrofit capabilities like that onto an old app than it is to build a new app from the...

I would cheerfully commit murder (of someone i already didn't like much, at least) if it meant that FG had the ability to pop out stuff like the character sheet into their own windows outside the rest of the UI.

https://steamforged.com/blogs/brands/sfg-acquires-iron-kingdoms Might even be one for a separate thread or news item, but PP has sold the entire Warmachine/Hordes/Warcaster block of IP lock stock and barrel to Steamforged games. I don’t know what that means for PP going forward - without the...

I've been playing in a IK group for a while now, currently just about to hit level 4. PCs are a Khadorian paladin of the Order of the Wall, an Iosian elf Cyrissist warcaster, a Khadorian mechanik, and a Cygnarian gun mage. Some impressions: - Gun mage is actually a VERY powerful low-level...

Yeah, it's pretty steep. It's $130 Australian (and that's without shipping etc), and that really stings. I'm not a PF player but was thinking about picking this up just for the setting material, but at that price point it's REAL hard to justify. Maybe one day if I'm feeling particularly...

I suspect he's ... not entirely wrong there. Mostly, but not entirely. It's worth remembering that Grand History of the Realms actually preceded the 4e core books by a short time, and this was where some of the more boneheaded changes to FR lore first got released to a largely-unimpressed...

Yeah, I also house-rule it so that inspiration points add 1d6 to a roll, and can be used after the player sees the result of the original roll. Which is a bit more impactful and gives players a bit more control of their destiny. Plus, I hand them out like candy, which means they get spent more...

I use inspiration points for rewards for that kind of thing when DMing. Although I’m running Dragonlance right now, so ‘do something dumb because you’re consumed with dumb melodramatic 80s romantic drama’ is more the genre thing there. But yeah, inspiration point for doing something that would...

Thanks for doing this, I've been looking for a product along these lines for a long time. And also thanks for not using Midjourney etc generated art, that's a dealbreaker for me.. It looks to me like all tiers are electronic-only, no hardcopy option.

I’m honestly not sure if you’re being facetious here! 😂 But Faerun is a such a big and diverse setting, that as a writer or game dev or DM, if you can’t do anything interesting with it, that’s on you rather than in the setting! Faerun’s problem is that WotC uses it as a default Genericland...

I’m sure they do. To what degree these ‘partners’ are credible and/or capable of taking in a project like this, is another question. Every fly-by-night studio in the world would be salivating at the opportunity to churn out some shovelware that piggybacks on Larian’s success and fanbase. WotC...

Another possibility is Creative Assembly. They have no rpg experience, but they’ve produced well-received games using licenced IP in both the strategy (Total War Warhammer) and stealth/action/fps (whatever Alien Isolation was) genres. But realistically, anyone starting development of a major...

I'm not a D&D Beyond guy myself, but three of the players in my Dragonlance campaign use it for building/tracking their PCs, and they're all annoyed enough about this that they're looking to move to another platform. Having to shell out $ for the entire SotDQ book on DDB just to access a single...

I did forget that one! Yes, you're right. I flicked through it in the shop, but it didn't vibe with me at the time and i never bought it. It was, I think, the last book that Arthaus did for RL (other than the never-officially-published Van Richten's Guide to the Mists), and by that time the...

Not to the best of my knowledge, and I own the great majority of it.