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I'm not planning on covering the NPC statblocks, so indeed now is a decent time to mention the Kraken Priest. I'll simply add that Control Water is effectively an auto-win button in any naval combat, since it lets you sink an enemy ship virtually without contest. Meanwhile, the Marid is a very...

Oh, I really like that! The Dragon Turtle and his hoard o' zombies. It's especially good since, prior to Volo's, I found that Krakens and Dragon Turtles had very few convincing 'minions' to space out the adventure with.

The Fey in Volo's are certainly ripe for use. I mean, its an entire class of interesting and cool creatures that have not appeared even once in the adventures so far, beyond the Hags in Curse of Strahd. Of course, if they feel the need to reprint the stats in the adventure, it ends up being...

If you do, I humbly request that you express only the most profound satisfaction with the product, as I just impulse bought both books from Cubicle 7 and want validation for my choices :D

I vote for all of these. In that order, plz.

The Sea Spawn is another from the ‘humanoid monsters from the sea’ theme, and seems designed to function as your low-level threat in a coastal story. The image in the book is another fairly standard ‘monster standing still’ effort. It looks almost comically unhappy, thanks to the way that...

You could call it Tam o' Shanter's shop, for added value. After all, that poem is basically an account of him witnessing a Hag meeting with her Devilish allies - and would perfectly fit the theme of a 'small town beset by crazy Fey on all sides' that Volo's descriptions seems to suggest.

I'm surprised at how high Yawning portal is, especially considering that Amazon is a bad place to pre-order, compared to a FLGS. Maybe it is also appealing to the OSR crowd as 'old school modules' given fresh art and cartography? Either way, it seems like a sign that it'll be an exceptionally...

Thanks for the help. That entry is particularly helpful, Brian Barrington, since I had no idea where the town came from. Otherwise it seems like the Realms - famous for having every nook and cranny explored - has this once failed to provide much detail! I found that someone online had annotated...

One of the few Fey in this book that I had heard of before, the Redcap is a loveable little murderer. The image in the book is simple but evocative. At first glance the Redcap just looks like a gnome, but then the eye is drawn to the claws, the heavy iron boots, and the face twisted in evil...

Giants come in tribes, Dragons come in singles. The Giant-Dragon war was probably a numerical total mismatch, with the Dragons needing to group up to hold off the Giants. Whereas when your players meet them, a Dragon is nearly always alone - maybe it has a bunch of cultists, Kobolds, Guard...

Hi all, Does anyone know where I can find more information on Greenest, the starting town in Hoard of the Dragon Queen? I had a look at Volo's Guide to the Sword Coast on the DMsguild, but the contents page doesn't seem to list it; the Forgotten Realms wiki just references Hoard. Was this town...

I've got almost all of the Waterdeep information - 1e Waterdeep and the North, 2e City of Splendours: Waterdeep and 3e Waterdeep compiled for my own use. I'm sticking to that, including replacing Neverember in Tyranny of Dragons with Piergeiron. For the rest of the setting, I believe that the...

What thread was that? I've been trying to link other relevant posts as we go, for future reference. :)

Fey settlements in general are a very underdeveloped idea, except for Hags. We talked upthread about them maybe getting focused on in a future module, and that might well be the case; otherwise, I can only imagine that we'll hear a lot more about this in anything that covers the Feywild. At the...

Age of Sigmar is apparently now outselling WHFB, so it seems to have had more traction than 4e D&D did, in that comparison. I'm kind of hoping that they don't use the careers system. It never made a lot of sense to me - the characters were all going on adventures, why are they becoming...

​ The Quickling is one of the smallest creatures in the game, and gets some really fun abilities, as well as fitting into the theme that Fey Queens are not very nice. The best thing about the art in Volo's is the fact that the Quickling is standing on a water lilly, a detail that I didn't...

Interesting. Maybe you should do an Actual Play thread here in the forum after a few weeks of play, let us all know how it goes! I'm pretty curious about this, but not sure yet whether I'm wanting to invest in it.

When using random tables, a certain amount of finessing the results is usually necessary.

Interesting thoughts on having several of them. It also occurs to me that Tanarukks are solid entries into an Abyssal Wandering Monsters table; them plus some Goristos as a raiding band in the service of Baphomet will make a lot of sense, plus of course whatever other Demons suit the flavour of...