Recent content by Ruin Explorer

Honest question - why does this happen so much? I don't consider myself a good dungeon designer, or even a mediocre one, but I am well aware of the perils of 5' corridors and avoid them unless they're strictly necessary to make a structure make sense (and in that case, I may reconsider setting...

I feel the need to point out that Shadowdark didn't originate this system. Dungeon World has been using it since 2012, which is presumably where Shadowdark got it from, though there may be even older sources. I've considered using it for 5E more or less since 5E came out, though have never...

Fair enough, I guess we shall see if my confidence is misplaced! It often is!

Yeah it's weird to me that they have quasi-ethnic diversity (of a slightly forced kind*) but don't really seem, in the art we've seen, to have much in the way of the unexpected class/species-wise. Now, with an art piece for EVERY single class AND every single subclass, so 60 pieces (in theory)...

I'm confident in the content, but you wanna bet internet somethings on it? I'm happy to. I'm very confident that it will broadly unchanged save for the removal of rough edges/stuff that doesn't fit with modernity, and very specifically that they won't have leaned into the "decline" or...

I guess we're thinking of different kinds of fan. WotC, like TSR before them, made repeated efforts to make Greyhawk happen - not just with trying to make it the default setting 3.XE. I'm too lazy to dig up my old post where I went through them in extreme detail. I think the issue that limits...

I can, and I can absolutely give specific examples, because I remember a lot of times WotC absolutely did exactly what people on here were saying - for example, people thought the 2024 Thief thing where they only got SA once per round (rather than per turn) was dumb as hell here, and WotC...

So the bottom one is a halfling, right? Because she has nowt in common with the rest - she just looks like a pretty woman who is very small - she doesn't even have the same distinctive ears as the rest. Whereas the first and third are freakish and hideous but definitely have a specific look -...

Nah mate. I can't even think of a time it was. But maybe it's all in our own perceptions?

This is the best sell I've seen for Greyhawk for a long time, I must say. I think if they leant into a more Dark Souls-ish "everything in decline" (as you put it) or at least generally somewhat morally ambiguous mercenary-centric updated take, they could do something interesting. My contention...

Yeah I'm hoping they have two Ultraloths here. I do love a good Ultraloth. They're one of the more fun evil lower planes types.

I know you always say this, but there's never been a time when the feedback here was significantly at odds with the feedback WotC said they received. What frequently has happened is WotC simply hasn't talked about the feedback they received, so we just don't know, but at odds? Nah. Whether they...

I don't really buy "It's bad and deeply uninspiring on purpose, they want you to do better!" when they put in a massive poster map. The poster map shows the D&D team think it's super-cool and exciting, not boring and generic.

Do they? I've seen so little art of gnomes in 5E that I can even think of that I wouldn't have thought of that.

Re: the cover, I think the appropriate response is: It's a D&D PHB cover. I have never liked a D&D PHB cover in an artistic/aesthetic sense. I have always liked D&D despite a lot of mediocre or even truly terrible or actively off-putting cover art - very different to say, Shadowrun, which...