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I did this once for a large group and it worked out well. The players over the party size were my assistants in a very unusual way. One guy was the BBEG. I handled the megaplot but he was allowed to make decisions and once the good guys entered his dungeon, he had free rein of the tactical...

I'm 52 and have been playing since 1974. Most of my original players have seen gone onto life in general and don't play anymore and for the last 25 years, I have been playing with groups in which I was the oldest person. Significantly older now. As in the players are young enough to be my...

It is saturday morning cartoon faire. And no, it isn't going to look prettier than that. Low budget = low production values Disappointing...

Sheesh....I don't know if that is supposed to be the 5 heads of Tiamat / Tarkasis in tha shot or 5 colored dragons but where is the blue dragon part? And what's with the green dragon? It looks like some sort of .... bug, with those appendages sticking out of its head.

It is someone's attempt to retcon the 4e changes to the 4e FR setting so it makes sense to them.

Yes. Look at the credit lines. It is all for kiddies. These people would have done the original D&D cartoon years ago if they were a company back then. Don't expect Final Fantasy quality or top Japanese studio stuff. Just another in a long line of disappointments. When did the demographics...

Disgraceful. The executive producer should be offered a sword and his choice of 'second' and do the honorable thing.

Don't know where it is right now, but Rich Baker has stated (either Candlekeep or WOTC messageboards) that there will be NO warforged in the 4e FRCG.

A member of Candlekeep ran into Chris Perkins at the Digitial Life convention and asked a few questions. One of the questions was how much a timeline jump. Chris said that they have decided on how far forward the timeline will move, but he wasn't at liberty to say. When asked 'Can hints be...

The burden of proof is on you. Scrying - you have to either have something of the subject, have knowledge of the subject or a connection to the subject. Sorry, no help there. Divination - gives advice to actions but really doesn't give any knowledge about a subject to act on. Locate Creature...

Lots of reasons why not. Here is just one. Elminster isn't omnipresent. Faerun itself is larger than the USA and has a population of millions of sentience beings. Now, cults by their nature are secretive and tend to work behind the scenes. You expect one person to keep tabs on millions of...

Ed didn't direct or guide these changes. Ed didn't get a vote on these changes. Ed is a freelancer not a WOTC staffer and WOTC owns the setting and doesn't need Ed's approval on anything. Having Ed on board may allay some fears but Ed was given 50,000 words and an outline of what to write to.

And completely the fault of TSR and WOTC. Salvatore, when he wrote the first novel featuring Drizzt, intended him to be minor character in that story, by Salvatore's own admission. Fans got 'Drizzt on the brain' and TSR told Salvatore to write more about Drizzt. Several novels later and...

Perhaps there wouldn't be so much angst if the designers were Rich Baker, Eric Boyd, Steven Schend and Sean K Reynolds among others. The 4e Design Team is Rob Heinsoo, Bruce Cordell, Chris Simms and Logan Bonner. Ed Greenwood has be contracted for 50,000 words but doesn't have vote in the...

Which spawned cults of 'Death to Elminster', 'Death to Drizzt' and 'Death to the Chosen' which are quite vocal in their protests about NPCs. I think they needed to chuck their dice at their lousy DMs first before they took to the streets. I don't mean to invalid how they feel but let's put the...

As long as you are not a long standing FR fan.... :p

It has been a long complaint that the settings books reveal too much to the players and there has been a demand for a DM's book and a player's book. Maybe WOTC acknowledges that is a real issue and is addressing it. But does it make sense economically? The print run for the DM's book would be...

It is the scale. If you play the Realms, getting stuff rammed down the throat is somewhat of a given. The net sum of the Time of Troubles (which didn't turn everyone's crank, I agree), the changes amounted to killing three gods off, promoting replacements, and put limits on some magic. Easy...

In a nutshell, they are allegedly advancing the time line 100 years and introducing a event called the Spellplague that happened 100 years earlier, which based on info from GHotR, results in the destruction of gods, planes of existence, magic and changing the fabric of reality (implying the...

I'm with Kae'Yoss on this. It is being rammed down the throat of most Realms fans. Let's use the analogy of making your home renovations. Changes to the Eberron home - let's put this nice shelving unit over there. Done. Changes to the Forgotten Realms home - let's toss out the furniture...