D&D General D&D: Literally Don't Understand This

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

First gift shop dates back to 1894. Oldest museum i nthe world opened in 1471.

Ancient Roman tourism to Greece, Antioch, Egypt, and more was very common. Many people would buy souvenirs. Probably not at gift shops, though.

 

[Chaltab]

The first adventure in the Golden Vault is trash. We played it and at one point one of the Players asked, in ernest, if their Character could spot any surveillance cameras; and the Dungeon Master had the balls to say, "No, of course not, this is a medieval world." This after we walked past the gift shop and through the cafe past specimens in glass cases and dinosaur exhibits.

Of course, with enough effort, we could probably find a medieval museum with a gift shop in medieval China. It's always China.

I mean to be fair that sounds less like the problem is that the adventure is trash and more that the DM's off the cuff answer makes little sense.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

I mean to be fair that sounds less like the problem is that the adventure is trash and more that the DM's off the cuff answer makes little sense.

There should have been security cameras?

 

[pukunui]

The first adventure in the Golden Vault is trash. We played it and at one point one of the Players asked, in ernest, if their Character could spot any surveillance cameras; and the Dungeon Master had the balls to say, "No, of course not, this is a medieval world." This after we walked past the gift shop and through the cafe past specimens in glass cases and dinosaur exhibits.

That first adventure is one of the reasons why I chose to run the Golden Vault series in Eberron. A museum with a gift shop and an animatronic dinosaur doesn’t feel out of place there. It definitely would in the Forgotten Realms (except maybe in Baldur’s Gate or Lantan).



This thread got away from me overnight. I’ve skimmed the last few pages and just want to say that I would be just as annoyed by the Mardi Gras and Southern Gothic stylings if the people in the art were white.

I’m glad that WotC put out the Radiant Citadel, and I would like to see them support it more. There are some great ideas and some great non-European settings in there. (I was pleased to see that Godsbreath was revisited in Dragon Delves, even if I don’t like that particular setting, because it means we might see more adventures set in the other Radiant Citadel settings as well.)

My issues are me problems, and they are relatively minor. I do wish more of the actual RC adventures had been better written, but they’ve all got good bones. Overall it’s a better collection than Candlekeep Mysteries was. (That has some real stinkers in it.)

 

[pukunui]

There should have been security cameras?

The GV adventure set in the Nine Hells-themed casino has magical security cameras. Again, this works in Eberron, where it makes sense that some magewrights would have found a way to employ the clairvoyance spell in that way.

 

[Chaltab]

There should have been security cameras?

Not unless they're part of the adventure. I'm just saying "this is a medieval world" isn't a good reason. Even in the early modern world CCTV systems didn't exist, not until World War 2.

 

[Azzy]

Anyone remember The Book of Wondrous Inventions?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I mean to be fair that sounds less like the problem is that the adventure is trash and more that the DM's off the cuff answer makes little sense.

A high-security prison in the Forgotten Realms not having areas permanently enchanted with clairvoyance or arcane eye would be really improbable. That's not magitech, that's just the Forgotten Realms.

 

[Necropolitan]

Anyone remember The Book of Wondrous Inventions?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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The Book of Wondrous Inventions was a joke book.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Which makes it pretty modern.


Did they have dinosaur bones in glass cases?

It is not about the concept of a museum, it is about the modern presentation of it.

Right. Well D&D is not about any time period. There is no such thing as an anachronism as a result. Anything goes since it’s a multiverse. Or something like that. Do ignore the chainmail, battle axes and torches in the equipment lists though. They got left in the book due to poor editing

I kid, I kid.