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  1. Paul Farquhar

    Netheril's Fall - First Impressions

    But that's what it's equivalent to for elves. The point is, Netheril is the recent past, not the distant and forgotten past. It's history, not myth. Illefarn is much more your typical lost civilisation. Far enough in the past that it's passed beyond history into legend.
  2. Paul Farquhar

    Netheril's Fall - First Impressions

    Irrespective of how you count generations, 250 years is not very long.
  3. Paul Farquhar

    Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)

    No, I think people work jobs because they need to work. Not for money, but to give them meaning. Without meaning, life is, quite literally, meaningless. The thing I've noticed about the rich is they are very rarely idle. If people stopped working as soon as they had enough, there would be a lot...
  4. Paul Farquhar

    Netheril's Fall - First Impressions

    That's only three elven generations, the equivalent of around 250 years for humans. That's recent history. Most real world lost civilisation stories average about 10,000 years in the past.
  5. Paul Farquhar

    Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)

    A virus is a slave. It has no free will or autonomy. And that's the common factor between Logan's Run and Wall-E - humans have surrendered free will in exchange for a life of indolence. The thing that has really shocked me over the last couple of years is just how quick and eager humans have...
  6. Paul Farquhar

    Your top 5 sci-fi movies (and why)

    You think the life of a virus is desirable? That interpretation makes Satan the saviour, god evil, and Heaven, just Hell from a different perspective.
  7. Paul Farquhar

    Forgotten Realms: Astarion's Book of Hungers - First Impressions

    It's a fixed cost vs unit cost thing. Obviously on line sales have a low unit cost compared to a print book. However, the fixed costs are equivalent when adjusted for length. So, if this sells as well as or better than print, it will likely be more profitable. However, if sales are low, then the...
  8. Paul Farquhar

    D&D Stranger Things Gets a Sequel – Welcome to the Hellfire Club

    The sequel will be based around Eddie’s time travel adventures in the 21st century (he was mistaken for Bill and Ted).
  9. Paul Farquhar

    Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread

    That’s the universe you are thinking of. The galaxy is a we bit smaller….
  10. Paul Farquhar

    Wizards of the Coast Re-Registers Dark Sun With USPTO

    I think it makes more sense for Eberron, since they are burning through their magical energy at an alarming rate.
  11. Paul Farquhar

    Wizards of the Coast Re-Registers Dark Sun With USPTO

    Mutual annihilation?
  12. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Fall of Netheril- The Return of the Arcane Age Subsetting

    Because Eileen is a common Irish name. E before I at the start of a word lengthens the I sound. I.e. as standard English (and very common in German). If it follows a consonant its pronounced differently. Whilst there are many exceptions, there is a reason for the "i before e" rule. Following a...
  13. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Is the SCAG Still Useful?

    True, I’m going off the 2014 version and assuming the changes don’t break anything. The biggest issue with that early version is it didn’t have many options apart from to stand at the back and throw infinite acid bottles.
  14. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Is the SCAG Still Useful?

    I tested both of those in actual play, and they were both really not fun. Rejecting them was the right decision. The artificer we ended up with is far more fun to play. Can’t speak for the psion yet oc.
  15. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Fall of Netheril- The Return of the Arcane Age Subsetting

    Those look fairly simple to me. One assumes unless stated otherwise it’s as standard English. So I-leen-R and loo-law-m.
  16. Paul Farquhar

    Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun - First Impressions

    I wouldn't use it for a full campaign, but I did use it for a visit and short adventure in the Preserve of the Ancients. It's not really a very big place, so I don't know how much more could be said about it really. I tend to not use provided linking devices, but I like it better than the...
  17. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General More Details Revealed for Forgotten Realms Digital Expansions

    Can you use the regain HP ability as many times as you have remaining HD, or is it more limited? Does make aasimar a little more appealing.
  18. Paul Farquhar

    Wizards of the Coast Re-Registers Dark Sun With USPTO

    You want a prediction? One large book plus online only “DLC”.
  19. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General More Details Revealed for Forgotten Realms Digital Expansions

    That’s part of the Stranger Things tie in.
  20. Paul Farquhar

    Wizards of the Coast Re-Registers Dark Sun With USPTO

    One thing they won’t be doing in anything 5e is resurrecting any “you must have this alignment” rules. As for elemental clerics in Dark Sun, I feel that the Elements should be impersonal power sources that people can learn to tap into, as depicted in the original boxed set. There is no place...
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