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Yeah, I was pretty disappointed with the mechanical aspects of the book. Too much of the material was just flat-out unusable. Babaylan isn't just overpowered to the point where it makes other players feel useless, it's overpowered to the point where the game maths simply don't work any more...

Maybe just general utility? From vague memory, book 1 was specifically all about magic items while book 2 had more player options, subclasses, spells etc.

That was one of my two major problems with the book, too. It's .. idyllic. Community leaders are generally wise, benevolent, and doing their jobs well, guiding contented people. It comes across as a setting where the problems have been solved and there's no need for the PCs. It could have...

Yeah, I had fun with the game (it was great to try out classes etc that you haven't had the chance to play in actual games before), but the story and writing were pretty middling, and it didn't help that the decision trees weren't as sharp as they might be - you'd quite often trigger dialog out...

I’d argue they’ve functionally done that already. I play it different at my table (and as long as deities are a prominent thing in CR, I suspect WotC won’t close that door) but it’s a long time since a WotC product has even talked seriously about its pantheon. Dragonlance is the only one I can...

So, now that orcs are proper full-blown PC races, amid many other lore changes, I got thinking a bit about the old legacy non-human pantheons. I don't know how dar back these go in D&D history. Certainly a very long time - waaay before i got into the hobby, and I'm old enough that my bald spot...

(You’d probably get more responses to this thread on the D&D board, for what it’s worth…)

Not running one right now, but semi-planning one for the future. Or at least it’ll be one of the options I pitch to my group once my current campaign winds up. I’ll be redoing the second inhuman wars, heavily influenced by Pirates of the Caribbean and Farscape with the PCs caught between two...

He could waste my entire net worth every day for the rest of his life, and he’d still have more than enough money left to buy Hasbro.

PCs in my dragonlance game levelled up to 4. I have a house rule that allows max hp for the first three levels, to allow for a more heroic feel game and less swingy fragility at lower level. So this was the first time we’d rolled hp in the campaign. Five PCs no less than three of the rolled...

My personal formulation of that one is that the arc of the moral universe can be bent towards justice. But it’s an long arduous process and the damn thing will spring back into its previous shape unless a whole lot of people keep both hands on the lever.

My vtt game (5e) uses uses initiative rerolled each round. It’s very streamlined because Fantasy Grounds does the reroll without need for human intervention. It’s interesting and keeps you on your toes because you can’t necessarily rely on characters acting in a known order. You don’t know if...

I'd love it, but I'm not holding my breath. I get the feeling they're trending a bit in the direction of more generic toolkit/supplement books rather than Midgard-specific stuff now, anyway. Hell, their spokesperson here on ENWorld said at the start of the year that they were planning a lot of...

Unless something has changed dramatically since their last statements on the matter, Brilliant East is permanently dead. I think it was due to kickstart about the time when those youtube vids with Asian gamers reading (and shredding) Oriental Adventures came out, and KP did a bit of a rethink...

I will forever be hopelessly awaiting Brilliant East...

I didn't see the original attribution, but the article is now listed as 'By Kobold Press' with the author link redirecting to the KP website front page. And comments on the article have been disabled. I know we have at least one KP spokesperson here occasionally, who I'm not going to...

WotC doesn't even do this with a fraction of the regularity that KP does. I love the Midgard setting and I'll buy anything that KP puts out for it ... but jeez, I do NOT need to pay for the damn minotaur race yet again, just to pick one example. Pretty sure I have it in five different books...

I clicked on the thread title and was actually going to answer the question seriously, then I read the poll options. A thread like this, just trying to start fights, is a waste of everyone's time. Please be better, OP.

I have mixed feelings about KotBR, but Soth in the original Dragonlance Chronicles was absolutely 100% classic Gothic horror character, even though he happened to appear in a high-fantasy romantic melodrama. Fallen noble knight, romantic obsession, temptation and betrayal, the chance of...

The VAST majority of domains are human-dominated. I did a thread a while back which was a readthrough of the Gazetteers, and almost every domain was heavy-majority human, and a significant majority were specifically called out as being hostile to non-humans (and usually spellcasters too) Off...