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Mur Fostisyr, was an area of northern icebound coastal lands, which was created for ICE's original module, The Iron Wind. Later, ICE included the same map for Mur Fostisyr which appears on the back cover of The Iron Wind within its poster map for Middle Earth, licensed to ICE by Tolkien...

It wasn't an option, but it's worth mentioning... I purchased D&D Beyond versions of the PHB, DMG, MM, Tasha's, Xanathar's, Fizbans Treasury of Dragons as well as Icewind Dale: RotFM, Dragon Heist and Candlekeep Mysteries. All of that was in addition to DDB version of DragonLance: SotDQ (noted...

In fairness, the new 5e Kender are not the one-note, endless thieves who don't understand personal property anymore. They got rid of that. Now they are Halflings who are relatively fearless. And they have a somewhat cool weapon that alternates between ranged and melee. The one-note nature of...

Alternatively? Just say "no". I say "no" all the time. I have no shortage of players, or campaigns. "No" works just fine. However, I don't say "no" just to say "no". I often do so because the campaign I want to run is something I do not want to be defined by the name of the Adventure -- but...

They are not. The Nexus removed such material earlier this year when the decision to move to DMs Guild was made. They will be available for sale a week from today though. ¯\(ツ)/¯

Well, yes...but it's more than that. It's the authors and their writing style. Dragons of Deceit (referenced above) was released in August 2022. The problems inherent to the text and narrative style remains. It's the YA premise and target age of the novel's audience. Or at least, the ground...

And I think -- by page 59 of this thread -- something else needs to be established: This stopped being "criticism" 35+ pages ago. There is a difference between criticisim and endlessly complaining for the sake of doing so. You are discussing a newly published game world with a lengthy...

Yeah. Been there, tried to do that. I couldn't. I chalked it up to poor writing (And Dragons of Autumn Twilight is poorly written). I had recalled that the later novels got much better though. And while I suppose that they do improve... it's still not good enough for 50-something-me. Fast...

I am quite unable to recognize the validity of a disconnect where many posters here seem unable to change a published setting so that it fits their view of what they would prefer to run. You can just change it, right? There's no debate, no lobbying, no hand wringing or pearl clutching...

There will be peaks and valleys in its popularity. That has been so in the past and will be in the future, too. But look, it's been around 48 years. We are coming up on FIFTY YEARS of D&D in 2024. It's not going away. The game will change over time, but 50 years from now? There will still be D&D.

To move by this, I think the cause of the Cataclysm can be retconned and reworked so it is somewhat more palatable without too much work. Posit instead that the King-Priest, who the novels explicitly depict as a racist, actively sought to destroy the Minotaurs -- the tribe closest to Sargonnas...

I think you are missing the larger point here. It isn't that "The Cataclysm is the Flood in the Old Testament; therefore, it's bad". Instead, it's "The Cataclysm was a planet altering event which killed millions of people -- most of them innocent; therefore, that act was Evil". The fact that...

I was a heavy user of twitter (@VCSteel_Wind). Not for gaming, but mainly for my interest in sports (Leafs hockey, in particular). Yes, I also participated in some policial discussions, both American as well as Canadian politics. After Elon's purchase, I was pessimistic but hung in for a time...

I think the implicit judgment throughout is that is exactly what they are doing. And they can't see such actions as "good"; they can't get there from here. I understand that view very well. I happen to mostly share it. Look, it's a problem for some people; perhaps many people. I'm not sure...

That's one spin. The other is that Chislev, one of the Gods of Neutrality, re-entered the world BEFORE Goldmoon's encounter with Mishakal. Canonically, Goldmoon's recover of the Disks of Mishakal was the re-entry of the Gods of Good into Krynn. We already know that the Gods of Evil had...

The exact timing of SotDQ is left deliberately unclear. Those DMs who care about those timing issues can insert SotDQ at a time that makes them happy and preserves literary canon if that matters to them; others who do not care are left to place it in the timeline as each may prefer.

The rule in 1st ed -- which was carried through in to 2nd and 3rd ed, was that the Disks allowed Goldmoon to pray -- there are conflicting explanations as to whether she received her Holy Symbol of Mishakal from the Disks, or from the Avatar of Mishakal via the Statue of Mishakal in the Temple...

You are being quite selective here in your recollections of the "knowledge of the Old Gods" in Krynn. It is true, that was the explanation that emerges in the first few DL modules and in Dragons of Autumn Twilight. You are correct in that. But it is also clear as the original novel series goes...

The original Mass Combat rules for 1st Ed, "Battlesystem" was released initially as an adjunct to DragonLance's War of the Lance. DL8, Dragons of War had its own rules for its war-game -- or it could be resolved (allegedly) using Battlesystem. DL9, Dragons of Deceit, also came with counters to...