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  1. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    This wouldn't seem off to someone born in 1948 though, whereas skimpy clothing would. A slight digression, but I find it more surprising to come across it in the Critical Role animated-series-masquerading-as-a-game Dispatch, which gives you a choice between blonde (okay this is subverted a...
  2. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Adventurers in Faerun-The Book of Low and Mid Level Adventures?

    Okay, here is what you need to know about running D&D at high level. Don't write adventures. Because the PCs have hundreds of ways to break any pre-written plot. Create a world and let the PCs play with it. Gygax had this right 40 years ago. High level characters are not jobbing adventurers...
  3. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Adventurers in Faerun-The Book of Low and Mid Level Adventures?

    Amber. Just a minute whist I create a new universe.
  4. Paul Farquhar

    Critical Role Tell me the selling points of Tal'Dorei / Wildemount, without mentioning Critical Role, Matt Mercer, etc.

    So, crass stupidity then. I would be more interested in low magic gritty realism. But if you are talking about 3PP stuff, there are literally hundreds of generic fantasy settings. Some are probably almost as good as one I create myself, but no one has used them and so are useless as a point of...
  5. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Favorite Forgotten Realms products of all time?

    There were no feats in 1st or 2nd edition.
  6. Paul Farquhar

    Spoilers Hey look, there's a new Robin Hood show coming with Sean Bean as the Sheriff!

    I don’t think either Robin of Sherwood was quite that charismatic, but this is a bit of the Sheriff acts everyone else off the screen show. Maybe they could replace Rob with Liam Hemsworth? Did anyone else find the cgi animals a bit jarring? I know it’s kinder, but did we really need such an...
  7. Paul Farquhar

    What are you reading in 2025?

    Well, Chris de Burgh was popular at the time…
  8. Paul Farquhar

    Spoilers Hey look, there's a new Robin Hood show coming with Sean Bean as the Sheriff!

    I’m a bit dubious about how openly Pagan these Saxons are, given that they were officially Christian for a couple of hundred years before the Norman conquest. I’m sure there were people still worshipping the Aesir, especially in the former Danelaw, but not widespread and openly.
  9. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General What Are Dragonlance's Weis & Hickman, and Actor Manganiello Cooking Up?

    Weis is on record as being quite angry about the lack of pants in the art. Presumably other male gaze elements as well. I think that’s why she made a point of mentioning pants in the text.
  10. Paul Farquhar

    "You meet a mysterious stranger in a tavern." Origins?

    The origin, is reality, and hence is as old as the invention of inns.
  11. Paul Farquhar

    New Unearthed Arcana Brings Back Five Subclasses

    Warrior of the Wandering Way. Even better if his name is Wodger.
  12. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Adventurers in Faerun-The Book of Low and Mid Level Adventures?

    WotC are not going to include a high level adventure in an anthology because it will inevitably be panned. They do not know what your PCs can do so they cannot write an adventure for them. You can see this in Xanthoria. It’s pathetically easy for characters of the suggested level, and the...
  13. Paul Farquhar

    Critical Role Tell me the selling points of Tal'Dorei / Wildemount, without mentioning Critical Role, Matt Mercer, etc.

    1) Kingdoms of Kalamar is not a WotC product or available on DDB. That matters to a lot of people. 2) Whilst I have not read Kalamar, I assume that, given it's association with Greyhawk, it is retro, low magic and aims for gritty realism. Not bad things in themselves, but very different to...
  14. Paul Farquhar

    New Unearthed Arcana Brings Back Five Subclasses

    That would require the printer to be shown to be at fault.
  15. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Who put all this Sci-Fi in my soup!?

    In the Doomfarers of Coramonde (Brian Daley) a wizard attempts to summon a tank to fight a dragon. The end up with an APC and it's crew from the Vietnam war.
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    D&D General Who put all this Sci-Fi in my soup!?

    Nope, that one was The Final Countdown (which plays out like a Star Trek episode). The Philadelphia Experiment is based on the conspiracy theory about making a US warship invisible and accidently teleport. But the movie does involve a couple of sailors falling overboard through time.
  17. Paul Farquhar

    New Unearthed Arcana Brings Back Five Subclasses

    Even if it sold like hot cakes, the reprinting and delay will still mean it makes a net loss. In the unlikely event that it sells well without marketing, it will just make the loss smaller.
  18. Paul Farquhar

    What Bit Of Fan Fic/Edit/Theory Made a Thing Better or even GREAT For You?

    Yeah, the movie implies the question, but declines to answer it. The bugs are fighting in self defence, that much is clear. And from a self defence perspective, the nature of the attack is illogical. It could be that the bugs misunderstand the nature of what they are fighting against, and...
  19. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Who put all this Sci-Fi in my soup!?

    It’s not really a space alien though, just a non-human species.
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