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  1. TheSword

    Modules: Made to Read vs Made to Run?

    Any examples of recent advantages are easy to read hard to run? I see people talking about the opposite but share some examples of modules that don’t fulfill that for you?
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    Netheril's Fall - First Impressions

    Who is Sliminster?
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    Netheril's Fall - First Impressions

    I imagine it to be a bit like the Time Lords of Gallifrey - hyper advanced society, caste based, with strange customs. Or like the Aes Sedai flashbacks from the time of legends. Or the Romulans I think you have to bring Netheril through cultural and behaviors oddities that develop from a...
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    Wizards of the Coast Re-Registers Dark Sun With USPTO

    PP gets a bad rap with some folks but for me it was pretty formative - not just for my love of Dark Sun but as D&D as a whole. It was one of the first D&D novels I read which really focused on a small group of adventurers and told from all their viewpoints. Ordinary folks rather than the great...
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    Netheril's Fall - First Impressions

    The feats are good, full of flavor and tactically relevant. There are a few changes to Dhamphir too necrotic resistance for instance.
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    Netheril's Fall - First Impressions

    Do they? Which lost civilizations are they?
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    Netheril's Fall - First Impressions

    Well Hlondath and Anauria 750+ years. It’s not so different to Byzantium.
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    Netheril's Fall - First Impressions

    There were Netherese successor states too as the ground holdings consolidated. It’s pretty much equivalent.
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    Netheril's Fall - First Impressions

    Yes. This makes it roughly equivalent to Ancient Rome. If it’s too far back, like 7,000 years then there wouldn’t be remnants left. It works fine.
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    Netheril's Fall - First Impressions

    I know these are first impressions but it feels like a lot of conclusions and not a lot of description of the product itself. What kind of items, what kind of magical hazards, what makes it interesting. My preference would be to focus on the product contents rather than make value judgements...
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    Forgotten Realms: Astarion's Book of Hungers - First Impressions

    Its hard to get twitchy about $15 for a product with something creative that will be used repeatedly, when anyone who sells coffee on the high street makes 90% gross margin on every latte.
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    Forgotten Realms: Astarion's Book of Hungers - First Impressions

    It’s the law of supply and demand folks. If you accept the price then buy it, but recognize that no one forced you to do that. If you don’t accept the price then don’t buy it and tell WotC that’s why you didn’t. They’ll then make a decision about whether it’s worth doing at a lower price in the...
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    D&D's Forgotten Realms Books Hit With Delays in Europe and Asia

    You are a champion! That has made my day, I only checked 6 hours ago and probably wouldn’t have checked again for a good while. So thanks for that. I think the value of high res maps in that format makes the price worth it for me. I’ll be buying shortly and I can make the month. C7 is Southern...
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    Wizards of the Coast Re-Registers Dark Sun With USPTO

    I mean Eberron FOTA is and Eberron RFTLW was a splat book. The Forgotten Realms players/Dms Guides are and SCAG was a splat book. Ravenloft VRGTR is a splatbook Planescape has a splatbook as one of its volumes. Not sure where you get the idea WotC only releases lore through adventures...
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    D&D's Forgotten Realms Books Hit With Delays in Europe and Asia

    I don’t know about that. I do know that companies I buy from, Free League, Cubicle 7, Modiphus are international but based in Europe. I get stuff earlier from them. I know because we chat about it on the discord and I see updates on Kickstarters about distribution. I certainly don’t feel like a...
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    What was your 2nd RPG?

    D&D Baby!! In the year of 1993
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    D&D's Forgotten Realms Books Hit With Delays in Europe and Asia

    What you gain on the swings you lose on the roundabouts. I get a lot of European rpgs faster and cheaper so I can’t complain that the American ones take longer. At least I’m not paying import taxes on this stuff.
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    Wizards of the Coast Re-Registers Dark Sun With USPTO

    Probably not much different when it comes to actual adventuring (as opposed to flag waving) Assuming it does come out then I’ll be very interested to take the 2e published adventures and see if any become invalidated by the new setting… I strongly suspect few will.
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    Wizards of the Coast Re-Registers Dark Sun With USPTO

    Grimdark can cover a few different things. The most grimdark of settings W40k is full of stories where heroic actions make a difference. Unfortunately it’s just a tiny insignificant difference (but not for the individuals involved). It shines bright not because it inspires other people but...
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    Wizards of the Coast Re-Registers Dark Sun With USPTO

    Thing is the people who like WotC remakes aren’t rare. They’ve made an art of recycling and remaking their own IP. They’ve been exceedingly successful at it. Happy to be proved wrong though because either way I get a product I can use. Honestly the things seem to worry about with remakes don’t...
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