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Yeah, I understand that, it’s more about how you manage group creation if one player wants a White Scar, another created an Ultramarine, then there’s a Salamander or something. Why are these high-ranking officers from different legions (which are probably located in very different parts of the...

I ... might buy to in this. I've had mixed feelings about the C7 warhammer stuff so far, but the double-PC thing has me intrigued. A bit reminiscent of what FFG did with Only War, your main PC and (in for guardsmen at least) your very in-genre offsider who was expected to die a lot. It's an...

A compromise, if you really wanted to run character preludes at the schools, could be to run group sessions, with the relevant player playing their ‘real’ PC for the campaign and the others playing throwaways who could in the course of the prelude die, or else become NPC enemies or rivals or...

As far as I know, the handwaved logic behind the sea of silt in Athas was always - defilers did it. Basically, defiling magic drags lifeforce out of everything around it. But water has this inherent life-giving quality. When you drain the lifeforce out of the sea ... you get the sea of silt...

I don't know what it would do, but I do know where it would live. Down a well, actually...

I have to admit while I love the concept of the book (I did buy Metis Media's Silk Road book, which i have not yet read), it might not be for me. I bought Adventurer's Guide to the Bible and the historical inaccuracies made me twitch painfully on almost every page. Ancient cultures vary widely...

(Not particularly relevant to this campaign, but I've always kinda wondered why drow houses didn't have a spymaster as well as a weapon master, house mage etc. It seems a natural fit. Though the real answer is probably 'because Salvatore decided it would have made the cast of Homeland too...

I’m not normally one for evil campaigns, but this is the exactly sort of thing I could enthusiastically get behind. Great concept. A few random thoughts etc. What school do drow rogues train in? Presumably Melee-Magthere? Don't have the first few levels be just about the schools, and don't...

The current game i play in is staying with 2014. The DM really hates all the lore retcons, the removals of half-elves and the like from the PHB. He wouldn't touch it with a bargepole. We're near the end now (just about to have the big fight at the end of Storm King's Thunder, though there's...

I ... don't think so here, personally. I don't read it that way. The line Evolve and expand existing D&D settings through compelling narrative development To me doesn't say 'metaplot designer', it says 'person who knows lore inside out and can mine if for bits and pieces we can use in...

C’mon, Raistlin is totally a Burke…

Not right now, but just wait until WotC is run by a brand new batch of snappy-dressing MBA-brandishing ghouls who weren’t there for the OGL controversy and didn’t bother to learn about it. WotC has never been real good at institutional memory, occupational hazard when you have redundancy rounds...

No. It’s (somewhat aggressively…) pointing out that Mearls’ account is inconsistent with the publicly known historical facts. Theres multiple possible reasons for that, of course, but the fact remains. It was NOT all about video games etc or else the ‘this licence only covers pdfs and written...

Ineptitude and malice are not mutually exclusive, to be fair. There was a clause in the nuOGL that explicitly stated that the licence was not applicable to electronic products beyond static pdfs. If WotC had only been interested in suppressing digital tools and video games from 3pp, that would...

Historically ... it hasn't seemed to be that way. There's been many Star Wars RPGs as pointed out above. There's an official Marvel RPG (admittedly they missed the cultural high point of the MCU by some years). There was a LotR RPG at the same time as the movies were out (it was, admittedly...

The way I read it, Mearls wasn't saying Lucasfilm, he was saying someone LIKE Lucasfilm. Damned if I know who though. GoT was well in the rear view mirror by then. Maybe Marvel, before they committed to their bespoke system? Maybe even Critical Role? Regardless ... I don't entirely buy it...

Professional software developer since 2002 here. In (slight) defense of my profession, I probably should point out that software DOES somehow successfully get released from time to time! Looking back, I can only think of a very small number of projects I've ever worked on that could have been...

I very much like the Winter Walker. The Scion of the Three has some great abilities and WOULD be extremely thematic except that for some reason all these foul jealous gods are perfectly ok with you swapping allegiances between them all the time? Should be pinned to one. College of the Moon is...

The only one of those I’ve read is DS because I’m a huge Dark Sun nut) and I’m not a 4e guy so I’m completely unqualified to judge their quality. But the sad fact is that by the time they got into gear and started releasing good monster books several years into the edition’s lifespan, a lot of...

Here's the thread (warning, lots of sore-point discussion of sales figures etc) https://www.enworld.org/threads/ben-riggs-what-the-heck-happened-with-4th-edition-seminar-at-gen-con-2023.699181/ The relevant quote (the ‘tripled’ bit might have been a failure of my memory, but the gist is...