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...and H'Catha, with the Sun counting as the ninth planet

It's a kitchen sink in the sense that the DM can shoehorn in whatever faction, NPC, or small nation they want to put there. The Border Kingdoms chapter in Power of Faerun explicitly states "there is no such thing as an accurate history or even map of the Border Kingdoms," and adds that the...

My statement applies to all definitions of the word "hiding," without need for context or knowledge of intent. Per the rules, the DM determines when conditions are appropriate for X. By definition, X = Z. Therefore, per the rules, the DM determines when conditions are appropriate for Z. That...

Nentir River in Nentir Vale looks like it would map fairly well onto the Scelptar River in the Border Kingdoms south of the Lake of Steam (and the Border Kingdoms are the real kitchen sink of the Realms). But from what little I know of Nentir Vale, its climate doesn't match the warm climate of...

The rules say, "The DM decides when conditions are appropriate for hiding." That remains the rule no matter what definition one uses for the word "hiding." One definition of the word "hiding" is "the state of being hidden." So the DM decides when conditions are appropriate for (among other...

None of that needs to be explicitly stated in the rules. It's true by definition. The words "hiding" and "hidden" aren't capitalized, so they aren't keywords; their normal, English-language definitions apply.

I guess I'm just not seeing the ambiguity in the updated rules, probably because I'm not seeing where it says anything about "remaining hidden." The Hide action says you gain a condition "while hidden" (which is just the phrase "while hiding" written in passive form). The DM determines when...

Since the game now has these situations where players make initiative rolls before the they know why they're being placed in initiative order (which wasn't necessary when the game had surprise rounds), the only thing I can figure is the characters being placed in initiative order have some vague...

Don't the rules say exactly that, though? "The Dungeon Master decides when circumstances are appropriate for hiding," and, per the errata, when you use the Hide action "you have the Invisible condition while hidden." If the DM decides circumstances aren't appropriate for hiding, you can't be...

I wonder how hard it would be to convince American TTRPG companies to relocate to Canada. Or at least move some conventions up there, so gamers can spend their dollars in a country that's less hostile to small TTRPG businesses with global supply chains.

Quick progress report: I've acquired enough illustrations to fill in the last large areas of white space in my manuscript. As a result, page layout work on the Forgotten Realms Travel Guide is nearly finished. I just need to place a credits sections, a table of contents, and a bibliography...

This thread is clearly an appropriate place for me to post my unsolicited opinions about WotC's business practices...

Always Read the Fine Print... ...or, in this case, the paragraph about ecology at the end of an obscure monster entry. As far as I can tell, none of the campaign setting guides describing Zakhara list aasimar as a species found in that part of the Realms. Despite that, a paragraph buried in the...

Monstrous Creatures Most monsters in the D&D game can be found under the Nighted Sun, although relatively few of them are native to that setting. Various magical effects—including efforts to repopulate the dying world—have brought a wide variety of monsters from different times and places into...

Thanks for the kind words. At the moment, I'm finishing up a Forgotten Realms project, but I'll make time to drop some more notes in this Dark Sun thread for anyone who's interested in reading a few more of my thoughts.

Thanks for your feedback. I've seen another Dark Sun thread on this forum dedicated to hopeful themes. I don't want to detract from the work posters are doing in that other thread by creating redundant material, so I'll to stick to Lovecraftian themes in this thread.

I'll have to give William Hope Hodgson a look. I'm not familiar with The Night Land.

A random idea inspired by the Dark Sun campaign setting and by the works of H.P. Lovecraft: The Nighted Sun “[Darkness almost material] burst forth like smoke from its aeon-long imprisonment, visibly darkening the sun as it slunk away into the shrunken and gibbous sky...” - H.P. Lovecraft, The...

Great observations! To expand on this, if you're using Monsters of the Multiverse, you can compensate for losing Martial Arts by using one of the species whose traits boost unarmed strike damage (Centaur, Lizardfolk, Minotaur, Satyr, or Tabaxi). Of those species, Lizardfolk has the drawback of...

We should create a bracket and have people vote on it