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I’ve favored the Dalelands too. But when I’m running there I include the Moonsea and Dragon Reach, with Sembia hugging the coast and little interior. My vision however is stuck in the gray box presentation with the Moonsea city states much closer rivals jockeying for favorable position in the...

A very important thing about the possible Hamanu redemption in Lynn Abbey’s final book is that it was also read from Hamanu’s perspective, a very unreliable narrator of themselves. Anyone is bound to put their own story in a flattering light, especially someone like that. But Lynn had zero...

I may be misremembering, but I though that it was not explicit the Blue Age halfling ancestors used themselves as raw material to create the new species, or if the new species were life-shaped out of the ocean material everything else that was life-shaped.

Directors are given flexibility for adjudicating advantageous reasons. High ground is already noted in the rules as one though. To get wonky in the math: Roles are 2d10, you get one of three results. One advantage is called an Edge, it is +2 on that role. Two advantages (double Edge) bumps the...

It was also to mathematically sorta balance the equipment rules that had weaker materials that did less damage and broke. Most seemed to ignore the fragile material rules though.

If I recall, Dragon Kings and The Valley of Dust and Fire were both written before Troy wrote the finale novel in the Prism Pentad. After Troy was shuffled off to novels, the novel writers of TSR were highly separated from the RPG developers.

I am as well. I even never liked the expanded regional map because in my mind it radically broke with what The Wanderer’s Journal said was beyond the Tablelands. Though I gladly selectively imported back material from the Revised era to my personal expanded Tablelands.

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I had criticisms there. For instance the first encounter lists Malice on the 1st encounter sheet. I thought that means I get to use it! Maybe? Because in the 2nd encounter it unlocks Malice as a thing the director gets to use so beware. Huh. Whoopsie? The players asked if there could be an...

I’m the current dm for our group and we had started a new campaign using 2024 5E, and just completed getting an adventure and got to level 3. About to start the next adventure and The Delian Tomb had been in my downloads for a couple weeks. I heard a ton of word of mouth that it can be basically...

Yup thanks for the double check. Didn’t have me reference near and I think my brain might have either blurred the 3.5E Paizo or 4e or personal hack to mimic the lore of novels. Been a long while since I dug into any Dark Sun except to get references to create a big alternative Athas/Tablelands...

In the first Dark Sun box, magic-users had two types which you were locked into. Preservers or defiles, where defilers were not much more mechanically different than preservers but they got a rapidly accelerated xp advancement table. In the second revised Dark Sun box, the magic user class was...

Them too! You can also see a white cutout over the sea placing the Moonshaes. Just a peek!

I know. I want to see the before still.

I wish I could see what was under that white cutout where Vaasa and Damara were shoved into the setting.

I think the borders of the Shield Lands is a fine placement. Plus you’re near enough to the Rift and Rift Barrens for more sources of ruins or monsters in caves. The wider region around White Plume is fairly well covered for inspiration and material.

Plus the Red Steel expansion to Mystara covering the Savage Coast region gave us smokepowder and guns, though limited to that region by magical curse to keep the guns from spreading to the rest of the planet.

I think either the term “psionic energy die(dice)” will need a change or the community will invent a new shorthand. 7 syllables just to refer to a common class resource is going to be a mouthful every time. I don’t like the abbreviation PED, but it might stick.

I lean to Green. Little details can hopefully be worked out. For instance I’d like more psion spells that aren’t available to wizards (but I’d be open to sharing with warlocks or sorcerers). I’m noticing a large deficit of evocation and conjuration spells from the psion list which makes the...