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Regarding spells and exploration: I found spells that mitigated exploration-related risks more fun before spontaneous casting became the default method of casting spells. In systems where you have to memorize or prepare your spells in advance, exploration actually forces spellcasters to make...

You monster! A TPK? Okay, it happens. But this. No, sir. No.

Among other things, Bahamut, a.k.a. Paladine, a.k.a. Fizban, is the creator of the first dragonborn species mentioned in any D&D product; the fictional author of "Fizban's Treasury of Dragons;" and the twin brother of Tiamat. He's also one of the most prominent gods of Krynn, and he temporarily...

Nebelun is a gnomish lesser god from the setting-agnostic sourcebook, "Monster Mythology," a feminine aspect of whom is mentioned in "Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes." Gond is Nebelun's stand-in the Forgotten Realms setting.

Does the Raven Queen count as iconic these days? I do think she's one of the more interesting D&D death deities (alliteration for the win!), although she probably loses out to Orcus if we're counting him as a deity.

I did a quick internet search for adventures featuring Maglubiyet and didn't find any. I did, however, discover that Maglubiyet is the Turkish word for "defeat" (as in, "failure to win"). As a result, I have changed my stance: Maglubiyet is one of the best names for any deity in D&D. Also, the...

I mostly agree. Maglubiyet has a terrible name, probably tied for second worst name of any D&D deity (behind Blibdoolpoolp). And he's definitely second-tier to Gruumsh. But isn't Kurtulmak equally a step-down in prominence from Garl Glittergold? Kurtulmak's only role in D&D mythology is getting...

Would you say that Maglubiyet should also be included, given his eternal war against Gruumsh and the orcs?

Interesting choice. Does Ka make an appearance anywhere outside the Mystara setting?

Let's say you're making a world-agnostic pantheon of deities, and you want to include all the big name deities of D&D. What deities would you include in that pantheon? If I had to answer my own question, I'd probably start with the patron deities of the five longest-running playable nonhuman...

Just to be contrary, I'm going to iterate the letter and call it 5f.

I'm inclined to agree with your overall premise that FR is not the "default" setting for 5e. I was merely observing that plenty of FR books invalidate past lore and insert a bunch of new stuff (usually by killing off a couple gods and blowing up half the world... again). So the fact the Volo's...

I see what you did there.

To be fair, at this point in the history of the FR setting, throwing out everything about FR other than a name in a sidebar and inserting some unrelated lore is a longstanding tradition.

Fair point. If we're taking political boundaries into consideration, almost no maps of the Realms match one another, since the borders of countries regularly change. (Off the top of my head, the borders of Amn, Damara, Mulhorand, Tethyr, Unther, and Vaasa all changed during the middle of various...

I purchased a pdf copy of the Forgotten Realms Atlas so I could compare it to the 5e Sword Coast Map for a project I'm working on. If you superimpose the Sword Coast regions of both maps in an image editor, you'll find they're essentially the same map. Those two identical maps are also very...

Until I read your post, the NFT marketplace made no sense to me. Now I understand what it's really for.

Accurate observation. It's like the dance club in every vampire action movie: a bunch of people in vaguely Goth or Emo black leather outfits dancing to a Rob-Zombie-inspired playlist in a darkish room with a few flashing lights while an imperious club owner looks down on the dance floor from an...

Not quite what I was thinking when I said "time travel movie," but it seems like it could be a fair period piece.

Incidentally, I think it would be hilarious if there was a time travel movie that filmed each era visited by its protagonist in the dated style of sci-fi movies from that era.