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Scientology and Mormonism are canon in my Spelljammer game (along with other religions like Norse and Greek paganism) and so L. Ron Hubbard has appeared as a cybernetic lich-lord who was fed by the collective bad sci-fi writing of a million monkeys at a million typewriters, and some historical...

Haven't read it and haven't read good things about it, but I will say that the particular blend of races and classes in this book's adventuring party really reflects my experience with contemporary D&D, in a good way. Lots of players pick classes and races that are a bit contradictory (like...

Anyone can make a gun and they can be manufactured at scale. Depending on the edition not everyone can make a wand of magic missile, not can everyone use them or mass produce them. If it were possible to give every conscript, doughboy or private a wand of magic missile, surely a setting would...

For most of the middle ages, guns were not in use, but neither was full plate. Full plate armor was a response to the development of firearms. Any D&D setting without guns should logically also top out at breastplates and splint. If your idea of a "knight in shining armor" looks like this, that...

When I think "dark skinned person associated with gold and showing off wealth" I think of Mansa Musa's famous pilgrimage to Mecca in the 14th century. As Mansa went from Mali to Arabia he spent so much of his immense wealth that he inflated and devalued gold across the known world for a few decades

"It's days like these I curse the Chinese for inventing gunpowder"

I don't know if basically having all the NPC statblocks preloaded into my VTT program counts as "prep" or not, but I usually either use a random table or encounter builder with a theme after setting an XP budget.

I mean he literally does have an extended scene where he calls himself the king of failure or something.

From what I recall from the first half of the audiobook I heard, her being a rogue isn't really relevant to her character, it's more "insecure leader of an adventuring party who wants to be famous", discount Omin Dran basically. I don't recall her ever picking a lock or hiding in the shadows. I...

TBH I always like it when elves look more alien- literally. I really like Pathfinder and Dragon Age II's elves because they remind me a lot of Gray Aliens and just trigger the uncanny valley in a good way.

Never heard of it, I'll check it out and see if I can't crib anything from them. I went with spelljammer just because it can justify almost any kinda setting. Right now we're doing a highschool AU set in the elemental plane of ooze because the plasmoid player in the party wants to court Bwimb...

I am playing a marijuana-mandatory comedic spelljamming game that's 95% improv. I have a folder of maps and when I have free time I add maps I yoink from the internet on Foundry, but when the game time comes me and my players are too stoned to plan so it's almost entirely random encounter...

Who could forget that adventure where Murlynd just yelled at an empty chair for a half hour

How is that any worse than Murlynd?

I guess the books sold well? I checked the first audiobook from my library but didn't finish it, and I've never heard anyone talking about these characters with any excitement, like they were champing at the bit to find out what new hijinx they got up to.

I have been known to outconsume GWF Hegel.