Recent content by Parmandur

I mean, a new one literally is juat dropping, it is an ongoing series. And the people I know who read ot are in their 20s or 30s, actually...

Fair point.

What about Kong of Dragon Pass...?

What, questionable logic and writing??? In a TSR product from the late 1980s?????

Just to go back to this bit. When James Wyatt got the opportunity to actually make Ravnica into a Magic book, the Magic worldbuilding team had made a very popular and exciting high con episode Setting with some interesting details. But they did not consider the sorts of worldbuilding questions...

It is interesting how they interact, but always mechani s are at the service of a story, the Setting is what inform the use of mechanics, even in the oddball case of Eberron's conception.

The soundtrack for TMP is dope.

Without lookomg at the book, the top dude in the Yeomanry is a Goliath, the Knight Commander in the Shieldlands is a Dragonborn, the chief personage in the Rovers of the Barons is a Tiefling, and each Species gets bamechecked in one region or another. It'll there, and anybody coming to the book...

Now, see, this is an interesting point. Though I would argue thisnis more Setting influencing mechanics, because the narratives of various D&D worlds continued to reflect natural narrative logic even when 3E broke the math of AD&D. That's fluff informing a fix to the mechanics.

All the PHB Species have named NPCs in the Gazateer, and there isn't really any need explanation: dragons, Giants, fiends, and celestials are all well enough established, and rhe average new player is juat going to take what's in the books and run with it. How don't they...? Again, named NPVs...

Where is the friction in the DMG version...? There is explicitly.places made for all of the elements in the core books. Being an old school Setting is not a problem, because D&D is a game based on old school literary tropes. 5E was designed specifically to run AD&D material.

Yeah, I seriously don't know what any Setting that is "Everything in 5E" would offer that is different from just running Hreyhawk out of the DMG.

Insurrection is the most like a feature length mediocre episode. Final frontier is the most like a terrible episode. Voyage Home is the most like a really good episode. First Contact is probsvly the best just as a movie.

To be fair, thisnis also like several episodes of the Original Series, the ones that never got played on UHG marathons when I was a kid.

Princes of the Apocalypse is actually pretty good.