Recent content by doctorbadwolf

All the more reason to avoid the trope. Inevitability feeds into innaction. To paraphrase Tolkien, People domt need stories to tell them that dragons exist. we need them to tell us that dragons can be defeated. I will always push for stories where the protagonists are genuinely capable of...

It cannot be a nothing burger when no one is positing it as a problem.

Rome falling didnt break the world. The centuries after the city of Rome was sacked and the empire was ruled from Constantinople weren't a dark pit where no advancement occured and all was chaos. Art, culture, scholarly pursuit, and technology, all continued all over Europe. Not to mention the...

Not really. The modern age is objectively better to live in than ancient Rome. That was the case even before we figured out how they made self-repairing concrete. Even the Middle Ages werent this terrible drop into an abyss that Voltaire and his peers would have history believe. They made...

No, it was not. And regardless of some peoples silly insistence on calling it one, it does not matter to the point in any way. 5e does not have a setting that is made for it. If it gets one, the comparison that needs to be made is to older editions, not the same edition at its launch...

I was replying to the notion that 5e isnt different enough to warrant a setting built for it. THe most recent edition change was 4e to 5e. 5e is massively different from any edition that has a fully fledged setting built for it. The update to 5e has no particular bearing on that.

Im not sure i see what youre driving at, here.

But it is very different. 5e is massively different from 4e or 3e. And the most we have gotten is Infinite Staircase and Radiant Citadel, both of which are more mini-sigil than real setting.

Because they are right there, not actually that far away, and people will want to play them. Seriously? You really think that i was takimg the example as literaly what you want the setting to be? Come on. And my point is that unless it is a dawn of civilization game, even islands have...

I will give an example using my own very 5e setting, humorously named Islands World. The largest landmass in IW is a little smaller than Australia, and it isn't even where the focus of the setting lies. Instead, the real action is in the Arcipellago of the Turtle, which is roughly analogous to...

Middle Earth still had people from further away affected the action. In a dnd 5e setting version, you'd want to have playable Easterlings, which means knowing more than lotr ever showed about them. Now i think you could set the action in such a small area, especially with how 5e treats setting...

Eh its just a matter of using different classes. The ones from Adventutes in Middle Earth work great, and you are still fully playing 5e dnd.

I like this, but it is hard to do in the current rules as a settimg that is defined by those rules. Take Rome. If everyday Romans ar3 supposed to be playable, you cannot be restricted to that map. Many Romans come from further afield. If the people in the port should be understandable much...

I can see that, but i like abilities that offer a reroll upon failure.

Nevermind