Recent content by Augreth

The title sounds so… unspectacular 🤐 From the get-go I somehow thought this project is not going in the right direction. I wish them all the best, though! Always loved the Midgard setting and everything they published for it!

Panda‘s Talking Games from the Misdirected Mark Network. Personal, funny, simply excellent!

As a GM I heartily disagree on this one :) The reason is simple: when I just skim an adventure, I want to understand what’s happening as quick as possible, and that’d be just from the headings. I think it’s not the designers job to help nosy players keep their nosiness in check. It’s their...

There was a live play podcast on the awesome show She‘s A Super Geek! It’s an early one from 2016, no. 23 on Apple Podcasts, but it’s hilarious :D

I agree, I don’t like it at all stylistically. On the positive side, I like the idea of using the art assets like the spider or the dwarf for illustrating what you can find in a region. On the negative side, it is hard to pin down why I don’t like it, exactly. I don’t want to be insulting, but...

Very interesting article! The satanic panic wasn’t a thing in Germany, and I was way too young to see any of it. But since my very first DM had a copy of the AD&D 1e monster manual, and I had the 2e MM, I did wonder why they renamed devils and demons. I simply figured Baatezu and Tanar‘ri...

Ajit George was interviewed by Teos Abadia on the Mastering Dungeons Podcast a couple of weeks ago :)

Here’s what WotC have to say about that: „[…] Monsters of the Multiverse, a comprehensive resource for players and Dungeon Masters alike, containing over 30 updated player character races […]“ (Rules Expansion Gift Set | Dungeons & Dragons)

„The Dark Eye“ from Germany was my first Pen&Paper, but it was quickly followed by Dragonlance (2e) :) Eye of the Beholder on the Amiga 500 introduced me to the realms before I even knew pen & paper games, and my friends and I were impressed by Yoda‘s massive 13d force ability, although we...

Ha, didn’t know that. Something to think about …

Examples for Abilites from cultural background: Dwarves: Stonecunning High Elves: Extra Language Wood Elves: Mask of the Wild Drow: Drow Magic Gnomes: Gnome Cunning Forrest Gnomes: Speak with small beasts All of these could be granted, btw, to people from a different race raised in the...

There is no setting element that is not represented in the core rules. And all rules are setting elements, especially in D&D. D&D is no generic rules system. If it were it wouldn’t have any races at all but only a system for generating one. Other examples include its cosmology, which is very...

History and culture, as many here already wrote. Plus relationships between the people: the elves once enslaved the orcs, so whenever our half-orc hero is near an elf or even an elven settlement, he totally freaks out, in anger or maybe in fear. Social structure and its influence on the...

Awesome! Count me in :D

I love the idea, but sadly I don’t like the visual style :( And I suspect my players won’t either… Are there plans to expand in this area?