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That is pretty awesome. Gygax had a very Baroque approach to math.

Shoot, you can replace "Christian T. Petersen" with "Peter Adkinson", "FFG" with ""WotC", and "Asmodee" with "Hasbro" and pretty much the exact same dynamics apply.

Yeah, these books are the "Bible" for partners like Netflix or Harper Collons, but any FR media doesn't necessarily imply Canon for future game products.

Who is king of Damara in 1501...? That contradicts a novel Salvatore published a decade ago.

This is true, that is an amazing short book. Piranesi is perhaps one of the best novels of the 21st century. But in general, I do not have much time for pleasure reading right now so I prefer to read large books as a rule, I don't have the time to read shorts.

The BD&D Monk was called the Mystic, and I think that would fit better. Make Monastaciam a Backgroujd issue, keep the supernatural martial arts which is not necessarily culturally specific.

Yet these books seem to blatantly ignore novel events. It seems the "novels and media are their own Canon riffing off a stable basis that can be retconned" approach that Perkins laid out rationally ia in effect.

On a pragmatic "this is for making games work" level...this makes a lot of sense. Take the University archeology campaign frame from the upcoming eberron book, make fhe Pharoh and temples the patrons of the researchers who are basically Mummy and Lich exterminators...makes a lot of sense.

I have severe dou ts about Greenwood's legal understanding of the contract, TBH. I see no reason to not believe that rational canon policy is still on effect, since it seems to matter how up with behaviors and texts across the board.

I'm just salty the content won't be in a physical book, not that I'm against digital as such.

The expansion books are dropping next week, I believe.

For me, length is a virtue and brevity somewhat of a vice. A short book has to be very good to justify it's shortness for me. Now, Stormlight Archive is not the best series of books, bit they are excellent and fun, so thst is a good example of what I mean. I can't get that sort of enjoyment out...

Yes, it is pretty clear that WotC is not bound by any concerns of canonical metaplot anymore, and hasn't been for quite some time. For one, I am very glad about their current rational policy.

Historically, Dark Sun was bigger than Spelljammer...but that was a long time ago when WotC shared numbers on thst, and since then there has been actual Spelljammer material and no Dark Sun material, and most people who have played D&D ever have started in that era...ao I would think itpoasivle...

It depends on your version. Options abound.

Not particularly, no.

As mentioned earlier, Jeremy Crawford specifically explained why they design for high levels despite 90% of tables not playing them: aspirational material. Even if it doesn't get used, people can read and get an idea of the potential development arc. Also, inertia. They probably couldn't do a...

I don't think that anyone is questioning if it is possible, the question is if there is a major market. If people stop mid-Level because they are not interested in higher level stories...they won't play at higher level no matter what.

The "racial gods" all come from early Dragon magazine articles about Greyhawk, and Greenwood just rolled them into his pastiche merrily. Probavly, but I am not referring to the enumeration of God's, but how they are viewed as interacting with the world.

Based on...what in the text? Point is, Wheel of time is "Epic Fantasy" in literafure...butnitnis not Tier 4 stuff. There are narrative reasons why play would taper off where it does, where it ended in OD&D and B/X. Sure, it is easier for humans to run it than programmers to think of all...