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I know, That's the game-convenient way of dealing with the problem that WotC as a whole promotes, which I loathe because I find it against the spirit of what warlocks (and clerics and paladins) ARE. A warlock makes a pact with their patron. Pacts bind both parties, by definition, and pacts...

Yeah, I'd definitely want to allow that type of storyline to play out. It's too dramatic and iconic, and I'd hate to close that storytelling door. The question is how it works. If the templar turns against their patron and the patron finds out ... then what? Is it possible for the...

Sorcerer kings are not omniscient (any more than most warlock patrons, I suppose). Depending on the situation and the nature of the arrangement between warlock and patron, I’d certainly allow a warlock (or Templar) to betray their patron. Especially if it’s only in small unobtrusive ways or...

The lack of obligations in return for power in more general terms is one of the worst aspects for warlocks, clerics, and paladins together. I get that the idea was to refrain from giving bad DMs a fig leaf of rules cover for stripping a paladin pc of all their powers for frivolous reasons or...

The triumphant rise of Phoenix Command: Discworld approaches! 😆 Seriously though, I love discworld and I backed the kickstarter, but I’m not sure I could ever even remotely see myself running it. People talk about the Matt Mercer Effect as dissuading starting d&d DMs - imagine running a...

I have most of the sourcebooks of the line in pdf, and some of the adventures. Unfortunately I was only just getting into D&D (and was still very short of money to spend on it) when TSR was spiralling down the tubes in the late 90s and all this stuff was going out of print, so my physical...

I suspect skin cancer is rampant on Athas though! (especially as the prevailing fashion seems to be mostly skimpy leather straps and loincloths - presumably that's what happens when your primary domesticated animals are bugs or lizards and don't have fur or wool to make fabric out of...)

Agreed. Personally I’d view this as a matter for session zero. You have that conversation about what sort of campaign the DM expects to run on the grimdark to hopepunk scale, and talk about how (for instance) having a defiler and a Druid PC in the same party is fundamentally incompatible, and so...

And to add another little wrinkle to the lore, in Verdant Passage we have Nok, the wise old halfling questgiver who sets up the main characters to kill Kalak, saying ‘there are many dragons in the world. Kalak of Tyr is not yet one of them’. So given how small the Tyr region is in the context...

Thank you.

Not Canada-specific, but there is Heroes of Mythic America, which is a supplement for a wide range of pre-Colombian American peoples and civilisations, including some who ranged across Canada. I backed it on KS, the completion was very late but books are being mailed out now, presumably you can...

Can I ask where in the 4th Ed books this is discussed? Not doubting you at all, but I recently managed to get hold of copies of both the 4e setting book and the monster book, and this material just isn’t in there, along neither is any of the lore about the deep setting history, the origins of...

Wyan and Sasha were Rajaat's collaborators among the sorcerer-kings. They're still (kinda) alive in a vastly depowered form up until the fall of Kalak, and canonically right up until the return of Rajaat when someone finally gets around to squishing them. Dregoth and Sielba both took part in...

Basically, the big bad of the setting. Inventor of sorcery. Created the sorcerer kings in order to genocide all other races so that halflings can regain their position of primacy and bring back another paradisial Blue Age. They now the sorcerer kings worked out he intended to genocide them and...

As is fairly clear from the sheer volume of my word vomit on the subject, I DO love the DS backstory even though I believe it was often poorly used and inadequately thought out, but I fully intend to run ‘the Rajaat campaign’ at some point and so I think about this stuff. It’s not necessarily...

Yep. Your resolution is actually really nicely poetic in a lot of ways and I do like it. The devil would be in the buildup though. If the PCs are fighting Borys - why are they doing it? How much do they know about Rajaat at this time? Have they decided to fight Borys on the assumption that...

Yeah, it makes entire in-world sense, and i like the extra wrinkle of Borys's paranoia having him keep up the pretence all that time. Would it work as a scenario in game though? It's a bit 'little man behind the curtain'. It might be a letdown to the players if you've hyped up Rajaat all...

I’ve thought a lot about how to handle Rajaat in a hypothetical rerun of the Prism Pentad with PC heroes. If killing a returned Rajaat was that easy, Borys would have done it centuries ago. In the books it’s only managed by a complete deus ex machina which would not only be very hard to emulate...

Pre-Cerulean Storm, there was a nice balance-of-terror/mutually-assured-destruciton dynamic between the sorcerer-kings that I actually appreciate. All of them watched Borys become a dragon, all of them watched him run wild with agonised murderous insanity for a hundred years in the process...

Argh, yes, typo fixed...