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Given the massively increased viability of Dex-based martial characters in recent editions, if you’re having heat penalties for armour in your DS game one unintended side effect is that you end up with all your martial PCs being willowy agile types rather than the muscular brawlers from Brom art...

I think it's a given that an adventure will be a large proportion of the product, given how recent WotC products have been structured. As for the 'done really well' - well. we can cross our fingers I suppose. This is the same WotC that gave us a Planescape adventure that went to exactly one...

I think pyreen were generally a bit more Druidic than celestial, but the lore there changed over time and editions too. But I was just using aasimar as a completely random example. Minotaurs, plasmoids, etc would all be on the same principle.

This is my very personal interpretation of course, and not everyone may agree with it, but for me the core theme of Dark Sun is always that power has a price, and how you pay that price and who you pay that price to, matters. Defilers steal life force from others and from the world to pay for...

Yeah, I think the principle was that Rajaat had bound these creatures to the sorcerer-kings in the Pristine Tower, and the procedure couldn’t be done again. It was a pretty transparent attempt to post-hoc justify why templars could cast clerical magic while the sorcerer-kings that granted...

That would work for many stories, in many settings. In Dark Sun, where ‘how you get your power matters’ is such a core theme, it wouldn’t work for me personally. But you do you.

I have no doubt you’re correct there, as little as I like it. When it comes to tweaking game mechanics or experimentation or even optional rules, this is probably the least adventurous period in d&ds history. The same shaped peg must get hammered into holes of any shape, no matter how poorly it...

I know, That's the game-convenient way of dealing with the problem that WotC as a whole promotes, which I loathe because I find it against the spirit of what warlocks (and clerics and paladins) ARE. A warlock makes a pact with their patron. Pacts bind both parties, by definition, and pacts...

Yeah, I'd definitely want to allow that type of storyline to play out. It's too dramatic and iconic, and I'd hate to close that storytelling door. The question is how it works. If the templar turns against their patron and the patron finds out ... then what? Is it possible for the...

Sorcerer kings are not omniscient (any more than most warlock patrons, I suppose). Depending on the situation and the nature of the arrangement between warlock and patron, I’d certainly allow a warlock (or Templar) to betray their patron. Especially if it’s only in small unobtrusive ways or...

The lack of obligations in return for power in more general terms is one of the worst aspects for warlocks, clerics, and paladins together. I get that the idea was to refrain from giving bad DMs a fig leaf of rules cover for stripping a paladin pc of all their powers for frivolous reasons or...

The triumphant rise of Phoenix Command: Discworld approaches! 😆 Seriously though, I love discworld and I backed the kickstarter, but I’m not sure I could ever even remotely see myself running it. People talk about the Matt Mercer Effect as dissuading starting d&d DMs - imagine running a...

I have most of the sourcebooks of the line in pdf, and some of the adventures. Unfortunately I was only just getting into D&D (and was still very short of money to spend on it) when TSR was spiralling down the tubes in the late 90s and all this stuff was going out of print, so my physical...

I suspect skin cancer is rampant on Athas though! (especially as the prevailing fashion seems to be mostly skimpy leather straps and loincloths - presumably that's what happens when your primary domesticated animals are bugs or lizards and don't have fur or wool to make fabric out of...)

Agreed. Personally I’d view this as a matter for session zero. You have that conversation about what sort of campaign the DM expects to run on the grimdark to hopepunk scale, and talk about how (for instance) having a defiler and a Druid PC in the same party is fundamentally incompatible, and so...

And to add another little wrinkle to the lore, in Verdant Passage we have Nok, the wise old halfling questgiver who sets up the main characters to kill Kalak, saying ‘there are many dragons in the world. Kalak of Tyr is not yet one of them’. So given how small the Tyr region is in the context...

Thank you.

Not Canada-specific, but there is Heroes of Mythic America, which is a supplement for a wide range of pre-Colombian American peoples and civilisations, including some who ranged across Canada. I backed it on KS, the completion was very late but books are being mailed out now, presumably you can...

Can I ask where in the 4th Ed books this is discussed? Not doubting you at all, but I recently managed to get hold of copies of both the 4e setting book and the monster book, and this material just isn’t in there, along neither is any of the lore about the deep setting history, the origins of...

Wyan and Sasha were Rajaat's collaborators among the sorcerer-kings. They're still (kinda) alive in a vastly depowered form up until the fall of Kalak, and canonically right up until the return of Rajaat when someone finally gets around to squishing them. Dregoth and Sielba both took part in...