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The four Aesthetics Guide to Ansalon During the War of the Lance by Stephen Bull are quite detailed, and convert the 3.5 version of the modules from MWP to 5e. Together, the page count for the 4 Guides is 323 pages. It's a lot of material. I have found it to be useful, though it does not change...

No, I think he meant on DM's Guild. There have already been many community re-workings of the Classic campaign. Some of those, the aforementioned Aesthetic's Guides to the War of the Lance are now on DM's Guild. Another updated version of the Classic Campaign is promised for DM's Guild by...

Quite so. More to the point, it's pretty hard to imagine how a party of ~7th level PCs are ever going to take on Verminaard. This re-imagning of Verminaard as a CR17 boss is a difficult thing to make work in the classic DL campaign in terms of its power curve. I suppose there are other ways to...

Verminaard, Ember, the Forest Master? :O I got to admit... my interest in SotDQ just dropped significantly -- mainly as my wide-eyed wonder and need for a newly re-imagined Classic DL Campaign in 5e from Wes & WotC has been instantly and unreasonably stoked by this DDB freebie. Never mind the...

Streaming services decide success/failure based on bums in seats and eyes on screen within a finite period after release. The difference between a streaming service and traditional broadcasters is that Streaming services know -- for sure -- if you watched it and when. They aren't guessing...

Yanno, it looks increasingly possible that this film could prove to be a hit! I'm not sure that any of us here really know what that will mean -- much less are even prepared for it.

Interesting question. I have never really closely compared and slugged lines with the individual modules (which I still have in print) with the 3 volume combined Classics. There may be some changes other than in terms of layout, but if so -- they are relatively modest and small. I never trusted...

I enjoyed them both, but I thought HotD was a LOT better; tons better, especially in the writing and acting. Paddy Considine is going to win an Emmy for his portrayal of Viserys. Nobody on RoP is going to be nominated for one. RoP had to pull out a big battle and Orodruin exploding to really...

Quite true. That's a function of age-groups of target markets as much as anything though - and we have seen that change from 2E through 3.x, PF1/2, 4e, and 5e. The rules reflect the changes -- and ages -- in the player base. I started playing in 1979-80 and through the early 80s, we played...

Some are worse than others. DL1 is the one that is the worst for this, and it continues in DL2. It gets much better after that. It's not perfect by any means. I think it is possible to add to DL1 (a lot, actually) to make the whole thing flow very differently -- and reasonably, too. The stuff...

Thanks for all of this (and to @darjr , too!). I have my Session 0 for SotDQ for this coming Saturday and will commence the campaign on January 7. I am looking forward to it. I also have asked for the Warriors of Krynn boardgame from my wife for Xmas (I will buy it myself otherwise) but am...

Libram was a scale or balance, or a term of measurement in latin. It's use to refer to it as a book was, as you say, a coined term by Gygax - never in use in latin. The word may have (wrongly) appeared in some thesaurus Gygax plainly used throughout OD&D and AD&D in his witing style. Dweomer...

Not sure about that yet - I promised my wife I wouldn't buy it before Xmas (I expect I am getting it for Xmas). So with a scanner, I plan to implement Warriors of Krynn within Foundry VTT as best as I can so that we can use it during play.

You can import the entire adventure with DDB Importer/Adventure Muncher, too. It's not as slick as the old PDF2Foundry importer for PF2 adventures, but it's still pretty great. It's a HUGE time saver. Click a few buttons - and VOOM - the entire adventure book has been imported into Foundry...

It's pretty clear that @Ruin Explorer isn't a Foundry VTT user. If he was, he wouldn't be saying any of this. The goodwill towards DDB by 5e Foundry VTT DMs and players is off the charts.

End? No. HELL no.

WotC paid a lot of money for DDB. When it comes to software products, this is something which Hasbro dabbled in within the past - lost several HUNDREDS of millions of dollars at it -- and got the hell out for a decade+ DDB as a portal for buying online versions of D&D products has been very...

To be clear, while I do believe that there was some attempt to publish a YA branded and trade-dressed edition of the DL Chronicles after Harry Potter set the YA section ablaze in book stores in the 2000s, overwhelmingly, gaming fiction has been stocked and sold in the Adult Fantasy /Sci Fi...

There is no fixed time specified in SotDQ as to when it begins. It leaves that up to each DM.

I thought this introduction & overview was excellent. I hope others see it and read it -- without it having to have the same half-dozen people beat their heads against the Cataclysm Wall for 30 pages just to keep this near the top of the list so that people see it. Well done. Thanks again.