D&D (2024) Heroes of the Borderlands

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Boy, I'm really excited about the new PHB and am jazzed to start a new game with it. The Borderlands would be ideal, especially since my youngest is in a D&D club at school and wants to start playing a home game again.

... oh, that's right. A year from now.

With this kind of wait, this had better be the most mind-blowing starter set of all time.

 

[Azzy]

Boy, I'm really excited about the new PHB and am jazzed to start a new game with it. The Borderlands would be ideal, especially since my youngest is in a D&D club at school and wants to start playing a home game again.

... oh, that's right. A year from now.

With this kind of wait, this had better be the most mind-blowing starter set of all time.

Yeah, my friend and I are going to introduce his kids to D&D, and I really would have liked to have had the new starter set. But LMoP with revised pregens it is.

 

[Parmandur]

So, in the recent article announcing Wberron and the Octover Surprise, we.got this cool new rt piece that riffs on Erol Otis' original painting for B2:

We all learned that character generation in the Starter Set will work through some sort of random tile based build a bear system.

For a bit of bored speculation...I have previously om these boards wondered if the hinted-at storyline starring Venger, who appears on the DMG cover, might be i this reimagining of Keep on the Borderlands inserting this classic Gugaxian Saturday Morning Cartoon villain into the classic Gygaxian Saturday Morning Dungeon Crawl as the BBEG behind everything.

Now, separately, WotC has continually figured the old cartoon protagonist in a. Umber of recent products ta, including introducing a new character and mentioning in the DMG that there are a number of other similar Adventurers from our world wandering The Realm.

What if...the tiles let players generate their own Portal Fantasy doppelganger in the mode of the 80s cartoon...?

 

[aco175]

Where have I seen those hobgoblin swords before?

Before this becomes an orc thread.

 

[MerricB]

I'm now just imagining that cover with the Mexican orcs as the antagonists...

 

[mamba]

Where have I seen those hobgoblin swords before?

Before this becomes an orc thread.

doesn’t the answer make it an orc thread?

They look like LotR Uruk-Hai swords to me

 

[Parmandur]

Where have I seen those hobgoblin swords before?

Before this becomes an orc thread.

Like @mamba says, big WETA Worlshop Uruk Hai energy to these Hobgoblins.

 

[Parmandur]

Like so:

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Gimli: "Boromir's Horn! Make haste, he is beset by hobgoblins."
Legolas: "Aragorn my friend, the new gold armour and horns look really doesn't suit you."

 

[ECMO3]

What funny, in my decades of play I've never been in a group where they would on purpose slay goblin kids or whatever. Or own a slave.

When you say "slave" does that include summoned magically summoned sentient creatures? Most of them are essentially slaves.