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Yes, I've heard the old "goblins are fey in folklore so it totally makes sense". It's bogus. though. Goblins might be akin to faerie creatures in folklore, but D&D goblins are most decidedly not "folklore" goblins. They are very clearly almost entirely cribbed from the work of Tolkien, an...

And? None of that necessitates the hamfisted twee way it’s implemented in D&D.

Every creature seems to be tied to fey these days, often completely unnecessarily.

I'm in favour of any cosmology without the Feywild. Man has that been overused.

Calimsham doesn't strike me as very Albanian or Bosnian.

I'm not talking about timelines in recent settings, I mean keeping characters consistent with timelines or personalities that they may have had in previous years. The "Tasha" part has completely taken over Iggwilv's characterization for example. (Part of them choosing a very strange character to...

But that's not new? Strangers things Demogorgon and Mind Flayer had nothing in common with their D&D equivalents.

You seem to assume WoTC gives a damn about things like "continuity" and "timelines".

So Tasha art is now "draw any woman as long as she has a few tattoos on her face and a witches hat". And what's going on with Mordenkainen's chin....

Good to see Alustriel's been hitting that tanning bed.

I'm glad I picked up Temple of Elemental Evil back when it was (for some obscure reason) free.

Also Rasputin and Iggwilv are half-siblings (and Princess Anastasia and Iuz are cousins!) according to that.

This adventure was even reprinted in Dungeon - issue #49, as "North of Narborel".

The mighty thoul lived on in Mystara in 2nd edition.

Based on the definition of plot in the thread the fact there’s monsters in the cave is plot.

I agree with your post, but it's Justin Alexander not Jason. Buth then again.

It's just baffling we're having this quibbling over semantics. If all of this is "plot" then Against the Giants was plotted. In fact, even Keep on the Borderlands is plotted! There are no plotless D&D adventures!

Ok, let's not call them villains. "Dudes". Dudes do some stuff, independently of the PCs. That's all. If having a living, breathing world is somehow adding horrible "plot" I think you need to reconsider your reaction to "plot".

If "villains do stuff" is a plot, then having an active dungeon where monsters react and move around is a plot, and then everything becomes a plot, except for dungeoncrawls where monsters sit around in their rooms passively and wait until things happen. "Don't prep plots" means "don't prep a...

Of course it will any game with events happening is effectively "plot" in that sense.