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I absolutely love his art, it helped define planescape and, while I'll never know what I'd have thought of a different artist doing the art for the setting, I think TSR made the eight choice in choosing him.

I think all of the DnD stuff that it's seen has meant that it drags some 5e terms into answers around earlier editions.

Definite maybe, I think we don't bother but I'm not paying attention to the one player that has a bow in our games.

I think for a sandbox like campaign where you've sprinkled various short adventures that there is no need to mention what the adventure is, ideally they should find out in game if they have a chance to find out about Raven's ruin but even then they don't necessarily need to know it is a specific...

You're right. I did mean 5e but I guess I did say wotc dnd which would include that.

Nah, for that you need to look outside wotc dnd. There's bound to be homebrew or 3rd party products with a base fighter class you want, but it doesn't really fit as well in the base game as it currently stands.

While I agree that a single caster could be made (though it would create a lack of diversity between casters that we currently have) I don't agree on using the sorcerer's spells known for it. I think for a lot of wizard players, collecting spells is part of rhe experience. For druid and cleric...

In 3e, they had rules for borrowing another wizard's spellbook. All throughout dnd history it, I recall see spell scrolls or the copying of a spell as a reward for aiding a wizard. Almost every setting had some sort of wizard guild where you could learn magic, trading spells wasn't anywhere...

I'd probably separate it between magic and spells. Spells are pretty much at the right point where they are now with discrete effects for each spell, throwing fireballs, opening locks, teleporting. Magic can do even more, players might be able to access these effects as well. For instance...

I thought I'd never heard of Absalom until I read that it was from pathfinder, don't know much about it thought (capital of the devil worshippers?) My favourite metropolis is Sigil, I like the fact that it's in the centre of the multiverse, the toris shape, the weird things you can find there...

Fire bad! I almost died!

I use it for help with basic coding for work stuff, but I also use if for creativity. I find it can be a lot of fun bouncing ideas off chatgpt and seeing what comes out of it.

I think 3e was 1 hour of study all up, same as BECMI, but when it comes right down to it, everyone in games I've run or played in for every edition typically just allow spells to be prepped after resting and don't worry too much about actual time.

I'd remove the force field ability of tiny hut. Instead it just hedges out weather and small insects/animals.

I think they have the benefit of being light easy reading. I was reading one called rogue dungeon and quite enjoyed it, it's set in an advanced MMO so if you've played WoW or another MMO some of the tropes will resonate.

I have a friend who has recommended it to me before. Back in 2021 he had this to say in our chat. Might be a little bit spoilery as he talks about the beginning of the first book.

T Thanks, I've added these three to my reading list. I'm trying to get back into reading because I spend too much time on my phone (granted that's how I'll likely be reading these books), in front of my tv, or on my PC.

Thanks, I'll give these a look at, I think the only one I've read is earthsea which I remember being a great read.

Well, having caight up on the thread, it seems like it is no longer about the topic. I was hoping to get some book recommendations out of it...

They are, I have a bunch, maybe all, of them. Worth a read for sure and easily done in an afternoon/evening or two.