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I was lucky enough to have seen Children of Men without knowing anything about it. To this day, I still remember getting to that scene and asking, a short way into it, "Wait, have they not cut away to a different camera yet?"

It's possible the two upcoming FR books, taken together, might have more ready-to-use content than the 3e FRCS. The new books will have more mini-adventures, if nothing else. But it's really saying something that it takes two full-sized hardcovers just to complete with the content in the 3e FRCS...

Wouldn't you know I'd end up spraining a finger in the last two weeks before the big Forgotten Realms launch. The finger I most use for trackpads, no less. Getting all the finishing touches on the Travel Guide done in time for a simultaneous release with the official books is going to be...

Vilhon Reach also got detailed in its own dedicated Forgotten Realms module which, oddly, wasn't included in the FR series

The game is designed to have 6-8 encounters per Long Rest, and (at low to mid levels), it takes 6-8 max difficulty encounters to level up. So... eliminate Long Rests, and apply the benefits of a Long Rest whenever the PCs gain a level?

If they group southern Faerun and northern Zakhara together, they could easily do a pair of Great Sea sourcebooks that cover the same amount of ground as the (northern) Faerun sourcebooks.

I'm guessing it's not a coincidence that the Forgotten Lands are all the lands in and around the Forgotten Kingdom of Impiltur. As an aside, I find it amusing we now have the Forgotten Kingdom (Impiltur) in the Forgotten Lands (northeastern Faerun) in the the Forgotten Realms (the world of...

Edit: Pay no attention to that map behind the curtain. More polishing is underway.

I've heard this before and it always strikes me as odd. I'm genuinely curious: if asking, "Are you sure?" identifies most hallucinations, why isn't "Are you sure?" functionality being used under the hood to proactively stop hallucinations from happening?

I'm a fan of the Atlas, but I wasn't happy with the poor scan job WotC did for the pdf version I purchased. I haven't checked to see if they've updated the file since I first downloaded it, but the copy I got a few years back had several maps cut off at the edges because the pages were cropped...

Fair point. But I'd say an AI GM is just one step removed from that; an AI GM would be an expert system that runs game rules paired with a LLM that generates adventure content and NPC dialogue. (You'd want an expert system like a VTT to handle the game rules whenever the LLM isn't needed to...

I'm sure someone will provide a passable AI GM in the not too distant future. A GM bot isn't that dissimilar from a call center bot, and AI call center bots are becoming a fairly standard tool for businesses. If nothing else, I could see one or more hobbyists cobbling together an AI GM of some...

That's a great question, one I had to answer for myself when WotC announced the upcoming Forgotten Realms books. The introduction to the Travel Guide addresses the possibility of discrepancies between different Forgotten Realms campaign setting products. To paraphrase, the Dungeon Master can...

I'm too busy polishing up the Forgotten Realms Travel Guide to write a lengthy post today, so here are two illustrations from the book: the shortest and tallest Humanoids native to Zakhara (shown to scale). (Some stock art courtesy of pixabay.com and shutter stock.com.)

Personally, I've had more fun playing a changeling against type. My changeling character was honest to a fault and refused to use shapechanging to deceive others. Instead, the changeling wore the same, identifiable face at all times, modified in small ways to reflect their current mood. (The...

I'm inclined to say "Zariel" is the name attached to anyone serving as rightful Lord of Avernus. Asmodeus strips the name from any former lord and gifts to their successor as a badge of office. (Bel was just a placeholder, so Asmodeus never renamed him. Bel was blinded by hubris after seizing...

There's some gaslighting in that Richard Baker article. He (correctly) observes that the 2e map of Faerun would have been about one-third ocean if placed on a 20" by 30" poster map. What he neglects to mention is that the 3e poster map of Faerun is still about 31% ocean. And to get that 2%...

Fantastic article! Incidentally... If you need to stack a mix of books and boxed sets, the best approach is to stack books inside unrelated boxed sets until every box holds just enough to keep it from closing all the way. At that point, you know the sides of the box aren't bearing any weight...