Recent content by Von Ether

I ruffled feathers once on social media when someone thought they had invented spell casting spider folk for 5e. When I mentioned the Aranea had been around for decades, it was not taken kindly.

You are correct, which confuses me even more. Other than those who use gnoll PCs as doggos either don't know or don't care.

Funny enough, the Basic Rules 5e pdf would be a perfect fit for GW. Seeing as the starter boxed sets are almost always the four races and four classes, GW will be a fit there as well.

Because if WotC had picked Mystara or Nentir Vale, someone would have complained it wasn't Greyhawk. :ROFLMAO:

Well from what I have seen in other fandoms, including Battletech for the longest time, is that old fans don't like new fans. At some point, a lot of fans seem to slide into different phases the longer they are in a fandom. Eager recruit Evangelist Cynic Gatekeeper At some point a cool new...

Right? Which confuses me why 5e has Gnolls and not Lupins.

Hindsight being 20/20, GW would have been a perfect setting for the free Basic Rules PDF. And perhaps GW will make more sense with their next entry level box product as the pregens will probably be the classic 4 races, 4 classes. At this point, I'd rather run GW with B/X rules to reinforce the...

Well, yes and no. Part of the side bar should be exactly what you said. But new DMs have questions and they are often looking for answers and guidance. So the other half of the side bar would be, "But if you do want X, here some places they could be, but that's ultimately up to you and your...

It would be great if they had a sidebar that not only addressed where the dragonborn live in Oerth but also make them NOT an option if the GM wishes.

Or the best part of 4e, the Nentir Vale, which was also a Points of Light setting. Isle of Wryms? Do you mean Council of Wyrms? I'm guessing their goal is to provide a jumping off point vs a gazetteer. And those 40 + years of lore was sporadic, not contiguous like FR. Exactly. That might be...

Hank cut his hair? I call doppelgangers!

I'm in the camp of 5e being an odd design choice but understand it's a solid economic decision. At this point, it's like the game plan has to be: Shoehorn setting into 5e* Make money Make the rpg you really want for the setting as a vanity project. Pray the game's popularity lasts long enough...

... and standees, and dice, and card decks for Treasure/Improv Weapons (these are charts in hardback), and decent sized setting map. Just the dice and standees together are another $30-$40.

I've enjoyed running Dragonbane. It can do trad fantasy or OSR/sandbox. It's just more deadly on average and stays more deadly as there are no levels and thus no HP bloat.* The game is closer to a streamlined Pendragon or BRP that uses a d20 instead of d100. Using the d20, the game also uses...

I'm in the camp that having two figures for the two interpretations would have been the smarter, more profitable tactic. Heck, if they sold the figures as bookends for my gaming shelf, I'd be in. Pure speculation on my part, this feels like a publicity stunt to hype the set. Maybe one of the...