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I don't like this spell but I must admit that in my 10+ years of running 5e games, it has only been an issue for me once or twice.

Yeah. Speaking of which, while Tales from the Tables itself is 100% SFW, the author has dabbled in some NSFW stuff featuring the same characters. Consider yourself warned!

Good point! I've gone back and edited my post to add more detail.

I really like Tales from the Tables by Dungeons & Doodles This one is set in and around Waterdeep in the Forgotten Realms. It follows the adventures of the author's OC, a paladin named Angela, and her friends. These are different adventures to the ones in which he plays Angela as an actual PC...

I am so over the grind. I also find lots of customization off-putting these days. I've been playing Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, which is very basic and linear by today's standards, but I'm having a lot of fun with it. Just a nice point-and-click game. Looking at newer WW2-themed games, I...

What put me off ever giving it a go was the idea that Is that still the case?

I don't really understand the issue with this. I mean, they're called the Forgotten Realms because the idea was they were once connected to our world, allowing people to move back and forth, but those connections have been lost and the realms of Toril have now been forgotten by Earthlings. It...

Given how much effort the authors put into describing how hot all the ladies are, they're decidedly young adult male fiction. That other people can enjoy them too is a bonus. I wouldn't describe them as literature ... they would've needed a better editor for that. They certainly are light...

Jut started a quick reread of Dragons of Autumn Twilight, paying particular attention to the descriptions of the main characters. I’d never noticed before that Raistlin’s white hair isn’t mentioned until 100+ pages in!

They didn’t. As has been pointed out upthread, Ergothians (who had an empire to rival Solamnia and Istar before the Cataclysm) are described as being black. One such Ergothian is Theros Ironfeld. He isn’t a main character, but he has an important role to play as the one who gets the magic silver...

No, they don’t, as I have already pointed out on numerous occasions in this thread. One obvious example: Laurana is described in the book as having “woodland brown” skin, but Elmore always painted her as pale white.

Unless I completely missed an earlier one, the first mention of Raistlin having white hair doesn’t come until page 154, when they’re in the draconians’ bamboo cage. Goldmoon is tending to the injured mage, “stroking back the white hair.”

Well, I mean what the authors and society in the 80s (and maybe even today?) thought OCD is.

I never said it was. My main desires for a modernized Chronicles story would not be about the diversity of the cast but about carefully avoiding real-world cultural appropriation (e.g. the Native American look that Elmore gave several characters) and racial stereotyping (e.g. gully dwarves are...

I’m not surprised sales were bad in 2013. 4e had essentially been dead for several years by then, and 5e was still in the playtesting phase. There were no new, readily available D&D products to buy in 2013. The playtest era adventures were mainly for organised play or con exclusives etc.

It’s not until page 107 that we get an actual description of Flint: “The dwarf looked old, but then Flint had always looked old. His face, what could be seen through the mass of gray beard and moustaches and overhanging white eyebrows, was brown and wrinkled and cracked like old leather … The...

It’s interesting to see how arcane and divine magic have changed over the years. These days, everything’s just magic. But in the Chronicles, we have Raistlin stating that the blue crystal staff is not magical. “It is truly a sacred staff of healing, blessed by some god. It is not magic. No...

Agreed. I’m not running him down either. I still have a fondness for his art style, especially his landscapes. I’ve just been trying to argue the point that Elmore’s paintings are as much an interpretation of the story as a modern take would be. Moving on to page 35, we have the companions...

From page 28 of my copy of Dragons of Autumn Twilight: Caramon wants Tanis and Flint to guess who Tika is. She gives them a hint that Caramon once said she was so ugly her father would have to pay someone to marry her. Tanis replies: “Well, the years have proved him wrong. I’ve traveled many...

"Evolving" is the English word you're looking for there!