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Yes, it is.

I agree with a lot of what people here have already said. My favorite stuff from 4e: -Clear rules: The game tells you upfront how things work, which allows you to spend less time with rulings and clarifications, that you can use to play the game. -The updates: During 4e's life, we got a lot...

I see my stuff has been already shared here. :cool: And I'm more active in The Piazza forums, were I have compiled a lot of lore stuff from novels, magazines and more. But if you need something and don't want go there, just ask.

Odd. My players always knew they needed time between adventures, to rest and recover, to train (those new powers and feats weren't going to appear in their PCs minds a la Matrix), to live their lives... so we always took some time for roleplaying "out of adventure" stuff. Unless the adventures...

Yeah, but it doesn't necessarily needs to be that way. And that gives you a lot of free hand with world-building.

Not in the original entry for the Monster Manual, but they gained it in the Monster Vault.

This was never an issue for me. I don't know, because I was new to D&D back in the day, and didn't had any preconceived ideas of how things should work, and was really aware that this is a game. If my group was going to nitpick about tripping a gelatinous cube (a fantastic creature from...

I guess we can add "old players' strongly held preconceptions" to the things that went "wrong" with 4e. Oh, wait, he already addressed this with the magic missile thing... On topic, I already knew about 4e many "early versions" from the preview books. I even remember Mearls saying that...

TBH, I'm always gonna be puzzled by 5e downtime rules. Like, people actually need rules to know what their characters do with their free time? I always solved that through roleplaying and rulings (like determining how much the characters spent with their lifestyle, how much the bakery of this...

As a new DM back in the day, with a group of new players who had never played D&D before, it was good to know what were rules and what was fluff. Clear rules also meant less time discussing rulings and re-reading the books for clarifications, and more time devoted to playing. And while we...

It would have been nice if he showed evidence to back up these claims.

But it doesn't has any numbers for 4e.

Well, for instance, in Iomandra the inhabitants of Bael Turath became tieflings to oppose Arkhosia, and was eventually destroyed by the Arkhosians. In the D&D World of 4e, the inhabitants of Bael Turath became tieflings to crush the rebellions and other tribulations that were debilitating their...

I was going to say the same. While it is an interesting theory, and can work in your version of Iomandra/Nentir Vale, there are a few inconsistencies if we are to use those settings as written. Or well, "written", in the case of Nentir Vale.

Sure. It's in Dungeon 171, the Dungeoncraft article named "The D&D World".

IIRC, while Iomandra was created using the key points of Nerath's worldview, they were said to be different worlds. They talked about it in one of the Dragon or Dungeon magazines of the time. They used Iomandra and other two worlds as examples of using the Nentir Vale settings as starting points...

I'd also like to be playing 4e right now. 5e never grew on me, even with all the changes of late. Oh, I don't know. Some were very useful to me, but mostly to steal the plot, and fixing in the way that fitted the gaming group. And yes, the late adventures are very good. They learned what the...

Also, remember that most climate patterns in the PoL World are because magic shenanigans (the Desert of Desolation and the Kul Desert were created by tieflings using defiling magic, for instance, there are planar rifts that influence the surrounding terrain - such as the Trollhaunt Warrens...