Recent content by Paul Farquhar

No, anyone can decide what to do with them. “Setting Integrity” is just another way of saying everyone should be playing in the same way.

That’s not the problem of those people. It’s no excuse for attacking them. There are ways of expressing that disaffection whilst being happy for the people who like the current take. And you are more likely to win people over wish positivity than negativity. And you say you like Level Up. So...

In my experience, this has been going on for decades. I’ve come across a fair few in the FR.

I’m pretty sure that was the intended flavour. Southern Gothic was already a genre at that time. Larissa Snowmane has a riverboat in VGR. Since she isn’t a Darklord the riverboat can travel between domains. Nathan Timothy still exists, but is only mentioned as an adversary of Larissa.

Being unhappy with what other people like isn’t really acceptable, even expressed more politely. Railing against the modern world isn’t a good look. Other people having fun differently to you does you no harm. It literally isn’t.

“I’m not keen on quirky and unusual characters. I prefer more grounded fantasy.”

There is a difference between expressing an opinion and expressing disdain for people who don’t share it.

Again with the elitism. You realise it’s okay for people to like different things?

+novels +adventures +action figures

With hindsight, the poster was spot on. But that didn’t stop people complaining about it before they saw the film. Sounds familiar…

You can buy NWN for less than a bar of chocolate and mod it for the next 20 years. The steep discounting games get a year or so after release means that the tail might be long, but it is monofilament thin. A company isn’t going to make significant revenue that way.

Indeed, and when the DMG comes out I suspect what is says about world building will prove more divisive than a little bit of Greyhawk.

In my experience, players want their characters to be quirky and unique. My current group include a pigman, a genetically modified cat and a body in a tank.

This statement is undoubtedly true, since no matter what they do there will be a faction of people who hate it. The idea here is to do as little as possible, thus minimising what people have to object to, whilst trying to show they don’t consider the setting dead.

That’s great, fantasy is jam packed with unique heroes with special powers that no one else has. The lesson WotC needs to teach (and not just to new DMs) is “you don’t need to explain everything”.