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I read on a Dragonlance FB group that W&H wanted Summer Flame to be an entire trilogy, but TSR were desperate for money and said no, so three books of plot was unsatisfyingly crammed into one novel. Which i've never quite understood, surely TSR could have made more money out of three novels...

Argh, I didn't catch that, you're right of course. So wearing armour and infusing the shield is the only option there.

That's actually a much more accurate statement of the problem than mine. The alchemist badly, badly needs a couple of solid workhorse combat options that aren't just 'cantrip'. I mean, i found myself routinely using a completely unmodified and un-infused crossbow at level 4. It's got a wide...

From admittedly little hands-on experience (I played an alchemist to 4th level once, and my current campaign has a 1st level artificer with alchemist on his mind) I'd argue that the major weakness of the class is when it comes to actual in-combat options to put the hurt on someone. I mean, it's...

Some of my very favourite Ravenloft material was the 3rd Ed gazetteers which really made the place feel lived in and real. But there was some dreadful drek published in that era too - the players option books Heroes of Light and especially Champions of Darkness being right at the top (bottom?)...

You don't have to remove the darklords, just not make them the focus of every adventure. As a Ravenloft fan who was hugely influenced by the old Van Richten's Guides and the Arthaus-era Gazeteers, I'm a big proponent of running less-darklord-centric adventures in Ravenloft. They make the world...

Flicking through the quickstart on this, as I'm getting to the last half day or so of the kickstarter and I'll have to decide whether or not to back. It's 3e M&M, but definitely gets a bit of a 5e blood transfusion. Advantage/disadvantage (ahem, I mean bonus/penalty dice) are in, Reactions are...

Actually yeah, you're right. I'd forgotten about (among other things...) the genuinely good novel Renegade Wizards, set in the Towers of High Sorcery a generation or so before the War of the Lance, which had all sorts of people running around using in-born 'wylding' magic that sounded a LOT...

Yeah, that’s the point. DL had a post-War of the Lance in-world event aaaages ago that justified why sorcerers were around in that later time period. WotC in SotDQ just casually retconned in the assumption that they were there all along (which is an approach I agree with and took for my current...

I allowed it in my current game. I provided a list of suggested 3pp material I would allow (from a thematic point of view, and drawing from a few reputable 3pps), and said that anything else I'd evaluate if asked, but that i reserved the right to rein it back in if it proved problematic in...

Won’t happen. Hasbro/WotC and Weis/Hickman are working in different Dragonlance canonicities/timelines/etc, as has been LEGALLY very well known since the court case a few years back. W&H have the ‘Dragonlance Classic’ label, and can non-exclusively use all their old characters. WotC has minimal...

I co-GMed a Serenity/Firefly game many years ago, where a lot of the session/episode titles were Elton John inspired. We stole most of them from a very old rpg.net thread - Crocodile Rock, Benny and the Jets, Rocket Man, The Bitch is Back, etc etc etc

GoT was subversive for its time, but it's certainly not any more. Through its success, it defined a new mainstream. It created and popularised a whole lot of new tropes which are bordering on overdone cliche now.

I If you've ever seen Lynn Abbey's account of her dealings with TSR in the process of writing her Dark Sun novels, it's probably more surprising that any D&D novels in that time period ended up being readable at all.

Good Society. Lace and Steel.

The Galen Beckett books are excellent and I thoroughly encourage everyone to check them out. His D&D books for TSR were pretty bad though.

It’s never a surprise when a movie/tv project falls over in the pitching/development/scripting stages. I’d be surprised if 10% of projects (even only counting serious ones, not the scripts that LA waiters keep in their back pockets waiting for their big break) actually make it to the screen...

Well, given they’re currently two books into ANOTHER new trilogy, starring Raistlin, Sturm, and Tas decades after all of those characters canonically died in print, that’s kinda debatable!

I honestly don’t think that’s the case. What really makes a popular, successful licenced property is memorable, relatable, and compelling characters. In a TTRPG supplement, that looks a bit much like NPC-dominance (to the degree you can do it at all - that’s normally something that has to happen...

Yeah, that's a needle I'm trying to thread myself at the moment. Running an epic Dragonlance campaign, set in the War of the Lance, in which the PCs play a crucial role but which largely leaves the events of the novels alone. It ain't exactly easy, and I have no idea how well it's going to...