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Yeah I agree that the complexity is the biggest hurdle if adapting the system to a TTRPG. It's fine in a video game since you don't have to do any of the gameplay tracking or resolving yourself. If used in a new version of D&D, it should definitely be relatively easy to keep track of. That's...

I didn't read the whole thread, but I think Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire had a really good solution for control effects and bosses. In a nutshell, if your ability would apply the most powerful debilitating debuffs on a powerful enemy, they downgrade the severity of the debuff by one step...

I've had it used by both a wizard and a bard in two separate 5e (2014) games to very good effect. The real power of the spell as a ritual is how easy it becomes for the party to ignore environmental challenges from things like weather or supernatural phenomena / weather. As a DM in 5e I often...

Yeah I've seen it used in my 5e games and it has been very powerful. Personally I think the best way to weaken it without making it useless is to remove the ability to cast it as a ritual. It's fine if higher level parties can afford to burn the 3rd-level spell slot or even use a scroll, but...

I was originally responding to a post that said that this new possible show / movie should simply tell the War of the Lance story without changes or retcons. I personally don't think it's necessary to stick to the original material exactly as it is because it has certain issues. The elf...

There's a marked difference between Lord of the Rings protagonists fighting dark skinned orcs vs white elven protagonist faction enslaving another semi-protagonist faction of brown elves. Qualinesti and Silvanesti elves build cities, they are smart and intelligent and advanced and they worship...

Yes exactly, those movies and other similar properties do receive this particular criticism. But in the case of Dragonlance, it's much worse because the Qualinesti and the Silvanesti are much more aspirational than the villains of those two movies. The white elves are on the side of the Good...

No because the people doing it, the white elves, are generally beautiful and admirable. Their flaws are basically, "we're too perfect so we're arrogant". The people who like their abhorrent behavior won't see them as bad people. We've seen the same thing happen in many entertainment properties...

Personally I'd remove the enslavement thing completely. It's not necessary for the story. The Qualinesti and Silvanesti can be and are flawed in other ways too.

That's not what I said. First, both Qualinesti and Silvanesti took part in the enslavement. Second, they are on the side of the Good people. They didn't join the Dragonarmies and Takhisis. Two of the original protagonists are Qualinesti, and one is half-Qualinesti. Their leaders are not...

The point is that if you have a fantasy movie or a tv show where white people enslave brown people, you're going to cultivate a certain kind of audience that likes what they see. Is that the kind of audience Dragonlance deserves?

The white elves forced the brown elves into servitude and wanted to "civilize" them. It's at least enslavement coded if you're being generous.

Do we include the white elves enslaving the darker skinned indigenous coded elves?

If we're going canonical, Ansalon is tiny, like half the size of Europe. If there is no to little diversity of looks and ethnicities in how you depict a mostly human location on the continent, you're ignoring the canonical events (migrations) and scope of the land. If adherence to established...

Obviously because the primary books were written in the 80s and at least one author clearly had some very colorist baggage! But that doesn't mean that a modern retelling couldn't use the material as is and still employ actors of varying ethnic backgrounds.

Ansalon has black people though. Ergothians are described and generally depicted as black. You also have the peoples of Khur and Nordmaar who would be brown or black too. And of course the other "nomadic" (as per the RPG books) peoples like in Abanasinia. Also, in canon, 300 years ago, the...

"Adventure" is stretching it. It's literally just two combat encounters or so.

It is kind of funny that the exact same lesson was learned during 3.5. And 4e. And now again with 5e.

I'm nine sessions into my DH game and I have very positive thoughts. I think DH works well and it does very much feel like a crossover between 5e and more narrative style games. Early on in this thread there was feedback on Fear being overly abundant but I haven't had any issues with that. I do...

Although you don't always get a scar when you avoid the death. It's a roll, and at lower levels you're unlikely to get the scar. The automatic scar is part of the Age of Umbra setting.