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For 20-somethings that listen to the podcast, I'm sure they love it. I looked at it and didn't purchase it. It's a vanilla setting and I have all I need in the form of Aereth (I also have Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms with all of its add-ons, Kalamar, Mystara, Dragonlance, Eberron).

I think the most inspiring thing for me when I was younger (and had just played the Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan) was a high school trip to the Yucatan, visiting Chichen Itza and Dzibilchaltun, swimming cenote xlakah, and seeing literally ruined pyramids overgrown by rain forest when driving from...

Yep. People today fail to realize that the nuclear unit in ye oldey tymes extended only to family and friends and between warlords and their warriors. The notion of democracy and freedom may have come about in ancient Greece, but it pretty much only applied to male citizens, with foreign males...

And what was the response to this plea?

Ask that same question to an ancient Roman, a Celtic Warlord, an Arab trader alive in 1805, or a partner in the Dutch East India Company. You won't get the same answer as you or I would provide. True, but in the context of asking the question of what is good or evil, both fantasy and real...

Sigh... I'm not condoning anything. I'm stating that in a game attempting to model anything from ancient to medieval, the modern notions of good and evil don't apply. The Code of Hammurabi, for example, dictates certain crimes and punishments (mostly death). Owning and killing slaves...

"Is what an evil person would say?" Sooo... Every peasant throughout the ancient world is evil, by your definition. "Godwin Time?" You miss the point. Nazi Germany was considered evil by most other nations. That didn't prevent Italy from aligning with them. It didn't prevent Soviet Russia...

I'm saying "alignment" is a modern notion. When you are living in an environment where you could be killed due to plague, famine, or even just traveling somewhere (freezing to death or being killed and robbed while sleeping on the road, drowning crossing a river, starvation because you ran out...

You're completely missing the point. "Good" and "Evil" are solely dependent upon a society's value system. Modern western european societal values would say that leaving infants to die of exposure; keeping (let alone killing) slaves; sabotaging a political rival; marching troops into a...

I don't agree with the characterization of Titus Pullo or Marc Antony - and to a lesser extent Octavian. Yes, yes Titus Pullo killed a bunch of people - arguably the only evil act of them all was Eirene's love interest. However, in the society in which he operated, killing in and of itself was...

True - "low magic" sword & sorcery is vastly different than "low magic" western european medieval.

I would put Titus Pullo in the CN or maybe even CG category. Definitely gets into a lot of messes (and gets himself out of them), but he does have a moral code (of sorts). Oh, he's definitely a problem and completely reckless, but everyone he killed was out of a sense of justice. His value...

Check out Way of the Wicked for some ideas. It was a 3.x/PF adventure path for evil PCs and did a decent job of it. The big thing is limiting the PCs to LE (or NE). The CE complete psychopath doesn't work too well - they're just all over the place. The thing with LE characters - most of the...

A lot of what people consider valuable is based on scarcity or on perceived value as much or more than intrinsic value. There is a reason the Romans partially paid their legions in salt, why French and English nobles showed their wealth through the use of herbs and spices during feasts, and why...

Harnmaster Gold.

Magical Medieval Society: Western Europe did a really good job of this in 3e.

I think the key is parsing the first and second sentences of the description of elser brain sense thoughts. The elder brain gains insight into. Not, reads thoughts, gains insight into. So - it gets a general idea of how the creature thinks, its current emotional state, and its surface...

I would expect nothing less, given the demographics. Most on ENW may have first been exposed to D&D via 3.x rather than OD&D or 1e AD&D.

All of those minor screw-ups the PCs made over the course of the campaign? They are ripe for high level play. That lowly town sheriff they made look like a fool? He's now the ruler of his own kingdom. The mid-level minion the PCs tortured for info on the BBEG when they were 3rd level? He...

Any thoughts as to whether or not this is a tie-in to the new The Border Kingdoms? The 3e era articles on the Border Kingdoms on the WotC website included specific things like "The badge of Alamontyr is a full-face silver shield held aloft by two white wings, on a dun background. The shield...