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I agree for the most part. Where it breaks down for me is the new spellcaster design. Not giving them spell slots is one thing, but the overly versatile Arcane Blasts that they all get, that are both melee and ranged attacks, which they can fire off multiple times in a round … sure it gives them...

OK. Thanks. I worry this is a potential bottleneck. If the players can’t figure out the clue (“Lay your offerings of food and drink for the gods in the blazing fire before Amun Sa. That which the gods accept will vanish within the flame.”), then they can’t progress through the rest of the...

I am intending to run Pharaoh next, and I have some questions. I’ve never run it before. Am I correct in thinking that the only legit way to get from the ground floor to the next level up is through the flame portal? There is the river connection but the text doesn’t say anything about PCs...

IIRC when I ran it, I set it in the Pirate Isles off the Tethyr coast. (The PCs stopped there on their way back from Chult post-ToA.) For Eberron, I’d probably set it in the Lhazaar Principalities or maybe somewhere in the islands between Khorvaire and Xen’drik. Or maybe even like a decaying...

Yes! That one recycles the original art from Dungeon, though, doesn’t it? Or did they commission new art? I can’t remember. (That was a fun adventure at least - I’ve both played through it and run it. I might run it again for my Eberron game. Plenty of places where the Styes would fit in!)

Indeed. I maintain that Lincoln’s assassination was one of the greatest tragedies in US history. If he’d survived, I think things might have turned for the better. Instead, we got Johnson punishing the southern states via military occupation and northern grifters (the so-called carpet baggers)...

I was born in 1981. Haven’t heard of any of those games before. Are they board games or computer games or what?

Oh OK! Weird. Thanks.

Sorry if this is slightly off-topic. I didn’t feel it warranted a whole new thread. Anyway, I was scrolling through FB yesterday, and there were some ads for Amazon Prime shows, one of which was Alien: Rubicon. What is that? And why is it on Prime, not Disney+?

Sure. This! The one in the illustration is also not half-buried in the mountain like it should be. I really do wonder about art orders for D&D books sometimes. Like the art director surely knows that the art isn’t right but they don’t care? Don’t have time to get the artist to redo it? Other...

Speaking of art not matching the map, that one is a prime example, since the chapter heading art shows an oversized warforged titan, not a warforged colossus. I’m still planning to run this adventure for my ongoing Eberron campaign as Vol: Eve of Ruin. I’ve done the ground work but haven’t got...

They weren’t originally going to kill her off. They decided that somebody had to die to up the stakes, though. I posted a link about it upthread.

Yes. It was fairly straightforward and a bit exposition-heavy at the outset, but it was fun. Maybe not the best of the bunch but not the worst either.

We finished playing through "Shard of the Accursed" this evening. I have added my play report to the original post.

I'm originally from Philly, but I did not get the joke. :( I've never been to Pittsburgh, so maybe that's why. Yeah. While I think that La'an's ancestry is why the serum turned her into a Romulan instead of a Vulcan, I don't think Spock made that connection. His thinking would have stopped at...

I'm not vetoing the lore. I'm telling them that their so-called defiler is mechanically something else. Despite their little nod to withering plants in the opening description, there is nothing about environmental damage in the subclass' mechanics. It's entirely focused on drawing magical power...

Touché! OK, now I really am going to go away and do some other things! I'll catch up on the ensuing discussions later.

Yes, probably. I mean, they made an effort to give the setting a classical civilizations vibe -- not-Aztecs, not-Romans, not-Greeks, etc -- but had a bit of a blind spot about slavery, I guess. Or maybe they just felt American-style chattel slavery was more blatantly evil and didn't want to go...

Even though I don't know you from a bar of soap, I am glad that we can butt heads in one thread and then come over here and joke with each other about it. That's one thing I really like about this place. :)

Sure, and I have already stated that I'm fine with defiling and ex-templars etc. I just don't like the specific mechanics presented in the UA, and I don't think WotC should be encouraging that specific kind of playstyle in the context of Dark Sun. I think there are more creative ways they could...