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  1. Hriston

    D&D 5E Which was the most recent Wizards adventure you consider a classic?

    I've never read Ravenloft. I read part of the 5E version, and it seemed like it could be fun, but I wouldn't say it speaks to me. Also, I never played 3rd edition or 3.5, so the other adventures you mentioned aren't on my radar.
  2. Hriston

    D&D 5E Which was the most recent Wizards adventure you consider a classic?

    I was responding to this question asked by the OP: Last time I checked, The Lost City is an official D&D adventure. 1982 is the most recent for me. As runners up, I'd pick Tomb of the Lizard King and Against the Cult of the Reptile God, both 1982. The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth probably belongs...
  3. Hriston

    D&D 5E Which was the most recent Wizards adventure you consider a classic?

    For me, it would be The Lost City (1982).
  4. Hriston

    D&D General How would you make "finding out how to break the spell" interesting?

    I think this depends on what sort of things your players find interesting. Personally, as a player, I don’t find it very interesting to “work out” (i.e. guess) what the DM has in mind and am more interested in declaring actions for my character and, as long as those actions are permissible...
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    D&D (2024) Specifying 5e

    As a variation on the SRD based convention, I include 5.0 along with 5.1 and 5.2 to indicate periods in the publishing history.
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    IN REMEMBRANCE--2025

    Fatma Hassona, Palestinian photojournalist and the subject of a new documentary that is set to premiere next month at the Cannes Film Festival, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Wednesday along with at least nine other members of her family in Gaza City.
  7. Hriston

    IN REMEMBRANCE--2025

    Erik Ánderson Menza Pavi, Colombian Indigenous leader, was shot and killed in the southwest Cauca region on Saturday.
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    D&D (2024) The Elven languages

    I don't play 5.2, but, in my 5.0 games, the Elvish languages have a common root in the language the elves invented for themselves to speak in the home of their origin on the Material Plane as an expression of their intrinsic ability to do so. Over tens of millennia, it has evolved into a number...
  9. Hriston

    On Gnomes, Elementals, and Archaic Humans

    It isn't my intention to force a strict alignment between the <ahem> elements I've brought up, but I can see how my post might have given that impression, which is unfortunate. The reason I made the post, given the four Middle Pleistocene hominin groups mentioned (if the "Neander-sovans" are...
  10. Hriston

    IN REMEMBRANCE--2025

    Rubby Pérez, beloved merengue singer, and Octavio Dotel and Tony Blanco, two former Major League Baseball players, were among the victims of a Santo Domingo nightclub roof collapse in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday.
  11. Hriston

    D&D General What races/species populate your DnD world?

    My group and I started with the premise that the setting is a medievalistic fantasy world, so assuming things like dragons existing is considered fair game.
  12. Hriston

    D&D General What races/species populate your DnD world?

    For me, it's whatever the players choose to play and whatever monsters I roll up as random encounters. For example, in my current game, the PCs are a group of humans with an elf and a tiefling. So far, they've encountered halflings, large spiders, other humans, and orcs, so we know those species...
  13. Hriston

    On Gnomes, Elementals, and Archaic Humans

    This post is to share the current state of some ongoing light research I've been doing into some of the more common peoples of fantasy and folklore. For some time now, I've had an ongoing project to identify and pin down some of the real-world equivalents of certain setting elements of JRR...
  14. Hriston

    IN REMEMBRANCE--2025

    Mario Joseph, prominent Haitian human rights lawyer, has died in a car accident at the age of 62.
  15. Hriston

    Triple Feature (+)

    German expressionist cinema: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), dir. Robert Wiene Nosferatu (1922), dir. F. W. Murnau Metropolis (1927), dir. Fritz Lang
  16. Hriston

    What are you reading in 2025?

    Yup, it's given me some great insight into LotR, D&D, and fantasy in general. I also really enjoyed hearing the voice of this rather curious individual from the sixteenth century. This wasn't published during his lifetime, so I imagine he wrote it just to put his thoughts down on the subject.
  17. Hriston

    What are you reading in 2025?

    I'm reading A Book on Nymphs, Sylphs, Pygmies, and Salamanders, and on the Other Spirits by Paracelsus.
  18. Hriston

    IN REMEMBRANCE--2025

    Robert McChesney, co-founder of the advocacy group Free Press and a tireless defender of media and democracy, has died at the age of 72.
  19. Hriston

    (IC) Against the Giants PBP Group 1

    ::Yes, speak with Thane Arnak,:: Bible continues, ::and let him know the Clouds have indeed abandoned the alliansk. I bear the giant-slaying sword Waythe, the Chief-killer, as a token from their Prinsk this is so.:: Bible briefly displays the sword to the giants as proof. ::And although I'd...
  20. Hriston

    IN REMEMBRANCE--2025

    Seventeen-year-old Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad, the first Palestinian child to die while detained by Israel, has died in an Israeli prison.
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