Search results

Here is the map from my campaign, if you still need a map. The map 90% canon. I mean, all places are canonical, and the Nentir Vale and the Dragondown Coast's locations for these places are canon as well. However, since 4e adventures and sourcebooks never gave us exact locations for some...

You never see Aragorn, Legolas or Gimli training. They are already these baddass motherf*** who can take an army of orcs singlehandedly. You can infer that they trained at some point of their lives, but they don't need to train now. This can be applied to almost all characters in Western...

I guess this is another example of preconceptions about how stuff works. I grew watching anime, so one of my preconceptions is that combat type characters, such as the D&D characters, need time to train. From there, logic says that they need a time to rest, a time for sharing with loved ones, a...

To the almighty dollar and the ultra high expectations of the powers that be...

Yes, it is.

I agree with a lot of what people here have already said. My favorite stuff from 4e: -Clear rules: The game tells you upfront how things work, which allows you to spend less time with rulings and clarifications, that you can use to play the game. -The updates: During 4e's life, we got a lot...

I see my stuff has been already shared here. :cool: And I'm more active in The Piazza forums, were I have compiled a lot of lore stuff from novels, magazines and more. But if you need something and don't want go there, just ask.

Odd. My players always knew they needed time between adventures, to rest and recover, to train (those new powers and feats weren't going to appear in their PCs minds a la Matrix), to live their lives... so we always took some time for roleplaying "out of adventure" stuff. Unless the adventures...

Yeah, but it doesn't necessarily needs to be that way. And that gives you a lot of free hand with world-building.

Not in the original entry for the Monster Manual, but they gained it in the Monster Vault.

This was never an issue for me. I don't know, because I was new to D&D back in the day, and didn't had any preconceived ideas of how things should work, and was really aware that this is a game. If my group was going to nitpick about tripping a gelatinous cube (a fantastic creature from...

I guess we can add "old players' strongly held preconceptions" to the things that went "wrong" with 4e. Oh, wait, he already addressed this with the magic missile thing... On topic, I already knew about 4e many "early versions" from the preview books. I even remember Mearls saying that...

TBH, I'm always gonna be puzzled by 5e downtime rules. Like, people actually need rules to know what their characters do with their free time? I always solved that through roleplaying and rulings (like determining how much the characters spent with their lifestyle, how much the bakery of this...

As a new DM back in the day, with a group of new players who had never played D&D before, it was good to know what were rules and what was fluff. Clear rules also meant less time discussing rulings and re-reading the books for clarifications, and more time devoted to playing. And while we...

It would have been nice if he showed evidence to back up these claims.

But it doesn't has any numbers for 4e.

Well, for instance, in Iomandra the inhabitants of Bael Turath became tieflings to oppose Arkhosia, and was eventually destroyed by the Arkhosians. In the D&D World of 4e, the inhabitants of Bael Turath became tieflings to crush the rebellions and other tribulations that were debilitating their...

I was going to say the same. While it is an interesting theory, and can work in your version of Iomandra/Nentir Vale, there are a few inconsistencies if we are to use those settings as written. Or well, "written", in the case of Nentir Vale.