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It’s a long weekend here, so I’m ok to go pretty much any time in the next three days.

(Raises hand)

Everyone I know who manages to keep up with the actual CR gaming streams listens to them at work, or in extreme cases watches them on a spare screen while working from home. Four hours a week is a pretty serious time investment unless you manage to multitask (which I can't).

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I’d be looking to Pirates of the Caribbean there. Davy Jones seems an obvious one.

I got that one, curses be upon you all...

[raises hand] I'd definitely be interested in competing.

Oh god, this sort of thing SO MUCH. I hate it when I see an RPG Kickstarter with a long list of badges, bookmarks, miniatures, dice bags an other tchotchkes. It just stone cold guarantees that something will go wrong with some random obscure and unnecessary component that only 1% of backers...

Has anyone heard of, or better yet seen, this? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19865034 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/saudi-giant-mbc-announces-rise-of-the-witches-biggest-tv-series-to-be-made-in-country-1235195026/ A 10-part fantasy series set in pre-Islamic Arabia. Saudi...

I have mixed feelings about this. Rapiers are Far Too Good in 5e, definitely, and they make dex-only melee builds too viable and Strength redundant in too many places (and ensure that too many other weapons never get a look in). Dex gets you a good AC, good ranged attacks with the better...

Presumably you're poking around trying to find an artery not too deep under the scales somewhere? A tiny little exacto knife in the wrong place can leave a human in serious trouble, presumably the same principle applies to dragons?

I hate this post, because I finished writing the background of my new warlock pc and sent it to my DM literally yesterday and now it’s too late to go back and incorporate this idea. Though the mind boggles thinking about what a disaster dao patron would look like. Stubborn autistic-coded grump...

It’s a setting book and rules supplement only. There a couple of adventures available for the setting, but no level 1 to 10+ campaign in the style of Curse of Strahd or the other modern WotC 5e campaign books.

Given the massively increased viability of Dex-based martial characters in recent editions, if you’re having heat penalties for armour in your DS game one unintended side effect is that you end up with all your martial PCs being willowy agile types rather than the muscular brawlers from Brom art...

I think it's a given that an adventure will be a large proportion of the product, given how recent WotC products have been structured. As for the 'done really well' - well. we can cross our fingers I suppose. This is the same WotC that gave us a Planescape adventure that went to exactly one...

I think pyreen were generally a bit more Druidic than celestial, but the lore there changed over time and editions too. But I was just using aasimar as a completely random example. Minotaurs, plasmoids, etc would all be on the same principle.

This is my very personal interpretation of course, and not everyone may agree with it, but for me the core theme of Dark Sun is always that power has a price, and how you pay that price and who you pay that price to, matters. Defilers steal life force from others and from the world to pay for...

Yeah, I think the principle was that Rajaat had bound these creatures to the sorcerer-kings in the Pristine Tower, and the procedure couldn’t be done again. It was a pretty transparent attempt to post-hoc justify why templars could cast clerical magic while the sorcerer-kings that granted...

That would work for many stories, in many settings. In Dark Sun, where ‘how you get your power matters’ is such a core theme, it wouldn’t work for me personally. But you do you.

I have no doubt you’re correct there, as little as I like it. When it comes to tweaking game mechanics or experimentation or even optional rules, this is probably the least adventurous period in d&ds history. The same shaped peg must get hammered into holes of any shape, no matter how poorly it...