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I don't remember from your earlier posts . . . have you read the book? It is a horror book with horror moments and themes. How horrifying the narrative is, well, YMMV. The initial scene just after the group meets is pretty horrifying, IMO. And when the party travels to Lamordia on the macguffin...

"Demonization of white American males"?? Okay.

Eh, I don't see it that way, but I suppose you see what you want to see.

For blurred spoiler text: Click on the first "More options" button which opens a submenu. On the far right is "inline spoiler" which looks like a domino mask kinda. You can also surround your text with HTML codes "ISPOILER" Does the novel retcon Strahd's curse? No, I don't think so.

The dedication reads, "Perkins led us for decades, then abandoned us. He is dead to us now."

First, this isn't a "monster party". Drow, tieflings, orcs, and kenku haven't been "monsters" for a while now. They are people. That's a shift some folks aren't happy with, but . . . oh well. IMO, this party in "Heir of Strahd" and also the party in "The Fallbacks: Bound for Ruin", the party...

Kinda but not really. Tieflings, orcs, and drow are traditionally "evil" races in D&D, but we left that toxic trope behind quite a while ago. Kenku have never been an "evil" race, to my knowledge. None of these characters are portrayed as evil in the story. The tiefling is angry and bitter...

In the novel, things go sideways pretty much immediately and the party starts out distrustful of each other and at each other's throats. The character in the top left is Fielle the artificer, and she is initially portrayed as a sweet, doormouse, always-trys-to-see-the-good type of character ...

Heh, I just made my group play the new Builders of Baldur's Gate board game from Wizkids. We had fun, but it was somewhat complicated and off-putting for a couple of them. Perhaps D&D Horrified (or Horrified D&D) will be more their speed. For $30, its worth a shot!

Thanks! And now we know what @FitzTheRuke looks like . . . bwahaha!

Can we eat it? Is it person-shaped? Is it a person? (or sapient) Generally, in fantasy, eating a sapient person-shaped creature (or making things out of it's remains) is considered cannibalism and evil (and gross). But of course, we have plenty of sapient creatures who are NOT person-shaped...

Do FLGS's have the physical book in stock yet, with the limited cover? Or is it just digitally available on D&D Beyond . . . if you purchased the digital/physical bundle (or just the digital version)?

Why is it a problem that they ask you to create an account on Alchemy to take advantage of their offer? Seems fair to me.

I do agree that all of the characters could use more development . . . they all felt very quirky, quippy, and diverse but on a surface level. Perhaps in the next book and in the comic we'll get deeper character development.

It is official art. The comic is not being produced directly by WotC of course, but Dark Horse is licensing the D&D property and the Fallbacks characters. Dark Horse would have had to work closely with the WotC D&D team on the characters, setting, tone, and art-style to keep the Fallbacks team...

It's been a minute since I read "Bound for Ruin", the first Fallbacks story, but . . . if Tess's (Tessalynde, our elven rogue) weight/size doesn't impact her being a nimble rogue and if the character doesn't have issues with her own weight/size . . . why should the book make a big deal about it...

The "Urban Pack" which includes two doppelgangers, a bandit, and a tabaxi rogue. "Coming Soon" we'll also get the "Easy Rider Pack" which includes commoner clothing sets for modular minis, and also a "Dragon Pack" which includes a blue dragon wyrmling, red dragon wyrmling, wyvern, and young red...

The idea that elves were ever anything more than magical humans with pointy ears is the fiction. The visual language of what elves look like has certainly shifted within D&D and fantasy at large, but elves have never really been non-human, not even in the folklore they are derived from. I'm...

For my own comments . . . First, to be pedantic . . . the second Fallbacks novel, "Dealing with Dragons", doesn't actually release until later this summer on July 29. There was also a "Little Golden Book" for kids featuring the Fallbacks, "The Perfect Party", but haven't read that one . . ...