Recent content by Paul Farquhar

I mean, this is largely a taste thing, isn’t it? I thought VGR was a vast improvement on the 2nd edition boxed set, which I thought was a dumpster fire before dumpster fires were famous. And I really enjoyed Radiant Citadel.

They don't have to. If they don't the old version remains technically part of the 2024 rules, and the original DM is very underpowered, it's not going to break anything by having it technically in the game. Personally, I would rather see a non-suck Battle Rager.

Well, I drew a plan of Seaton Sluice. That sounds like it could be a place on a pirate or fantasy map.

Yeah, my big wish for next year would be for Exodus tabletop game to get a big push, and be added to DBB and other digital formats (I have bad eyes and find print books difficult). I'm bored with all this silly fantasy nonsense, and want silly sci fi nonsense instead.

You know this using your telepathic mind powers? The only "problem" was psionics (specifically, the community's constant rejection thereof), and that's fixed, which is why we are seeing movement. What you are saying is that whatever WotC do you have decided that you are going to hate it, and...

Possibly, but I think it has more to do with Dune. But Fallout was originally supposed to be a Gamma World CRPG but couldn't get the licence, and the original Dark Sun incorporated elements from Gamma World, so they have always been close cousins.

Sure. It was simple to fix and make no difference. Easy, not a big deal at all, like all the other things you think are problems. The biggest obstacle was psionics, and that's been fixed. So what you are saying is, WotC are doing Dark Sun, but you think they will advance timeline to a point...

Really, no. This is a prime example of someone putting their own interpretation on something with no supporting evidence in the text and claiming it is the one true interpretation. It was just an attempt to put John Carter back into D&D after it had been stripped out for intellectual property...

You say that like you think that a company not putting your desires ahead of everyone else is a terrible thing.

That’s not grimdark. In grimdark every attempt to do good and make things better ends up making things worse instead. See Game of Thones. It’s not that the world is dark - it may not be particularly - it’s that good can’t win.

You claim to know what WotC think without any evidence. Half giants have already been reconned to goliaths for a start, so I’m sure no one is losing sleep over that. But you still haven’t answered the question, asked several times: why would WotC use names like preserver, defiler and templer if...

I watched this last night on Netflix, so here are my thoughts. Spoilers of course, for people who have no idea what happens:

Contrary to popular myth, the reason for that was technical - psionics. As soon as they switched how they evaluated popularity so that the proposed psionics system wasn’t rejected out of hand they shadow-announce Dark Sun.

The fans of a setting scream every time a new version is released. But they are a small number of loud voices. I think people have strong feelings about the possibility of Dark Sun. But I don’t think it’s more popular than other classic settings. Certainly not Greyhawk or the Realms. So long as...

It’s not confusion - warrior of intoxication is a terrible name. Even worse than warrior of drunkenness, which would be the unchanged version. Indeed warrior of… sounds bad with a great many things.