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Every class in 4e is a wizard, right? /s (Ironically, the warlock in 4e is the least like any of the other PH1 classes. Sure, it has the same AEDU design, but its powers seem like they were designed in a closed room away from anyone else.)

When you put it like that, it does seem like the stakes of the student rivalry pale in comparison to “corrupted almost all of the paladins into worship of A DEMON LORD”. However, given this is a book aimed at teenagers, we mustn’t forget that who made fun of who at school and who let you sit at...

I like that this world is quite literally Manichean, divided into two halves. With of course, two competing blades! — Why would Emeritus tell us that a slave will go shopping for us, when she is his wife? Emeritus is a big jerk? Or, he didn’t actually say that, but our lovely ladies ASSumed...

Brother, this is the internet. If people who know nothing about a topic but repeatedly jump into tell the rest of us that we're doing it wrong were to stop jumping in, the internet would grind to a halt. And we can't have THAT.

Commentary: …"Perth's warnings about Arno's pact with unearthly forces." Huh? Perth said no such thing. It would've been super helpful if he had. [Dalris is] "finishing [her] third year of bardic studies at Fochlucan College"... This is a fun callout to the AD&D Bard. At level 1 (which means...

172 Fresh off our manly hand-clasp with Garn, we decide to tell him everything: our rivalry with Arno; Thayne's information from his "sources"; and "Perth's warnings about Arno's pact with unearthly forces." Hearing Perth's name, Garn remarks, "The Archdruid of Kandia. The father of this...

Obviously the scabbard and hilt only function to prevent doom if in close contact with your body and receiving sunlight. A thin layer of clothing will not block their powerful dweomers from your body, but the thicker leather of a backpack would. And obviously if they’re in a backpack they can’t...

Anyway, it’s a mute point.

It is now.

Ah yes, a good point: when at a convention, one must ALWAYS buy a set of dice. If you fail to do that you bring a year of bad luck upon yourself because of your failure to appease the dice gods with propitiation. Do you attend 20 conventions a year? Then you’d better budget for 20 sets of dice...

Also - I’ve heard and witnessed the “orient dice so that gravity will affect how they roll”. We all know it’s silly and superstitious but the veneer of SCIENCE keeps people at it.

Reroll. We don’t have pets at our games (several people including me are allergic) but hypothetically: keep the roll. If it was a good roll, cat becomes good luck charm and must be enticed to bat at dice every time. If it was a bad roll, cat must be shunned like the demon’s familiar it is...

If I, the 51-year-old DM, cannot read your dice from a reasonable distance, then they have too much character. If you, the person rolling the dice, legitimately cannot read them (like, really can’t; not as a means of cheating) then seriously dude you’re wasting everyone’s time every time you...

Hah! Good point. When I was a kid — around the time I first played these books — I signed my name Joshua E. Randall I (It looked fancier with even bigger serifs.) Yes, it was completely dorky and dumb, and now everyone knows that about me. Oversharing! What the internet was created for...

That person deserves a ban for bad grammar.

Commentary: … we became rivals with Arno "when we were students together at the College Arcane." Not in this book's Story So Far, we didn't. According to the introduction, we learned magic from Thayne, and only met Arno briefly after we recovered the Sceptre of Bhukod. OUR Carr Delling did...

193 We explain how we became rivals with Arno "when we were students together at the College Arcane." Garn realizes that means both Arno and I/we are sorcerers. He watches us for signs of malevolence. Dalris, rather unexpectedly, jumps in to tell Garn that we are THE Carr Delling, descendant...

Shut up and build this game and then TAKE MY MONEY!