Recent content by evildmguy

I mean, that doesn't preclude Azuth from having found and read all the Nether Scrolls, merely that after doing so, the Nether Scrolls were scattered again. That brings up an important distinction between Mystra and Azuth. Mystra is the embodiment of magic via the Weave. She is magic. Since...

Okay, that's inspiring! A mythal/protective ward is failing and the bad guy will get the thing unless the PCs fix it. Perhaps it's done in stages. The ward is fine and the group goes and gets a Nether Scroll. Maybe they get clues to another one. As they head back, the ward is being...

I agree! I guess what I'm trying to convey, and not well, is that by current FR standards, the Nether Scrolls probably don't have anything that would surprise a wizard. They might like having that information but there are a lot of sources out there by 1372, or 1494, that the scrolls are...

Even if you accept the 1E DMG of 2000 years max for an elf, Netheril lasted much longer. No natural elf could have seen all of it. Can I ask where this optimism comes from? That elves all live to the max potential age, perfectly remember everything AND write it down? And share it with...

I agree! I hope all involved are having a fun discussion! I know I'm enjoying it! I originally posted to this thread due to these two. I'm not calling them out or anything else. I'm merely saying that they were what inspired me to post to the thread, so thanks! Going back to my posts, I...

This could have been written by me. Both of my weekly groups switched to DH. The Thursday group took to it right away. All of them got the core set. We got into all aspects of it. We made our own world, with everyone detailing the basics of what they created. Then we made characters and...

I studied History and got my degree in it. Sadly, haven't used it much in the past thirty years. When I was immersed in it, I could have spoken to this. Now? I would have to look it up. Humans tend to make things personal and then it sticks. Someone a person knows dying is a tragedy...

Wow! Someone does have me blocked! I wonder what I did?? Primary sources are telling us that human commoners only know the last 200-400 years of local history, at most. Formal learning is the exception not the norm among humans. From what I can find, elves and gnomes might have schooling...

ETA: I still don't see the person you are quoting on this but did get the notification on it. I think what I would rather do is discuss what we think Netheril should have looked like. I agree it shouldn't be "more renaissance-y" but advanced magitech. Given what the cities had, something...

I like AI. I do pay for it and asked it to do a deep dive. It thought for nearly four minutes. Its conclusion? Common folk only know local history. (FR Grey box, 3E FRCS) Literacy in FR is lower than real world. (especially as we learn literacy wasn't as low as we think every year in...

I take it not a fan of Dragon Dice? I mean, to be fair, it's all kinds of weird. It's like wargaming with cubes instead of minis and any sort of tactics. I doubt I played more than two or three times, and at least one of those was against myself! I think Dragon Dice, and others like it...

Great articles, thanks @Echohawk! My question for you is what about Cast of Fate? It probably wouldn't go into the collector's collection, being dragon dice, but is a novel they printed. (I'm one of the seven people who bought Dragon Dice. And Spellfire and Blood Wars ccgs.) I had a few...

I answered Yes because I have come back to DND even when I play other games. But. My favorite game is Alternity. I have yet to find another game that has rank benefits that give game mechanics to allow an experienced fighter to win against a talented fighter. As I type that, I know I like...

Thanks for the replies! I think part of my question is that I don't know African culture very well, so if the dwarves are taking from there, I would love some sources I could read and view. The pictures are straight from 3E FRCS and the descriptions are from Races of Faerun. The shield...

Can you point me to where this is the case? I don't see it but want to understand where you do. Thanks! I welcome the new depiction of characters, including the ones in the comic. I'm running an FR game where dwarves have magitech. I keep evolving my FR as I do another campaign in it. I...