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  1. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    There is no massive time commitment for a player beyond turning up for 3 hours once per fortnight. Maybe if you go round suggesting that there is, it is putting potential players off. Hell no! I've not come across anyone who wants to be a DM! They do it because if they don't no one else will...
  2. Paul Farquhar

    Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun - First Impressions

    It’s worth checking out, it might give you some ideas, particularly with how the PCs can fit into your counterrevolutionary scenario. Also some of the San Citlan stuff from Radiant Citadel (expanded in a DMG supplement ) might be repurposed.
  3. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    There is a difference between one-note joke characters and characters who are simply anti-trope. But I’ve had a half orc half eladrin (Disney) princess and her undead orc bodyguard, characters lifted directly from Adventure Time and Terry Pratchett, and a brain in a jar, all played in campaigns...
  4. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Lorwyn: First Light Released on D&D Beyond

    And their parents and grandparents? The boardgames with longevity are family games, that everyone can play together, not ones only played by people of the same generation, because when that generation goes, so does the game. The new D&D starter set realises the need for cross-generational play...
  5. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Lorwyn: First Light Released on D&D Beyond

    I’m pretty sure you don’t see families sitting round a table kitbashing commander decks on Christmas Day.
  6. Paul Farquhar

    Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun - First Impressions

    Have you read Tintin and the Picaros?
  7. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    One thing to consider is that reading has declined significantly, especially amongst men and boys. So most D&D players aren’t learning their fantasy tropes from literature any more, they are learning them from video games.
  8. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    It’s also not wrong. Gygax wasn’t into settings, which is why he really struggled when players started asking about the setting for his home game. His first attempt at writing a publishable setting was more suited to a wargame than an rpg.
  9. Paul Farquhar

    Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun - First Impressions

    Set an adventure there and find out, then you can let us know. The book isn’t written until someone writes it.
  10. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Wildly Diverse "Circus Troupe" Adventuring Parties

    My players manage to play those sorts of characters in campaigns that last a couple of years.
  11. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Lorwyn: First Light Released on D&D Beyond

    It’s an easy game, but the deck building metagame is simply not something people do unless they are playing on a regular basis. And if you don’t have a deck you can’t play the game. You can see that on these forums there are a lot of people who used to play but fell off the deck building treadmill.
  12. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Lorwyn: First Light Released on D&D Beyond

    So, what you are saying about the market research, is a wizard did it. I think one of the challenges WotC face with MtG isn’t it isn’t very casual friendly. It’s not like Cluedo or Monopoly, something you can pull out and play with the family at Christmas. When players stop keeping up they tend...
  13. Paul Farquhar

    Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun - First Impressions

    I easy pleased, so long as there is plenty of gratuitous nudity I’ll be happy enough.
  14. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Ed Greenwood to Publish 4 New Forgotten Realms Sourcebooks in 2026

    This sounds like fun. Not sure why the Dalelands label, that’s like Generic fantasy with a capital G. Ed and co can’t do high level adventures either.
  15. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Lorwyn: First Light Released on D&D Beyond

    Well, I’m not American, but, whilst I know how to tap land for mana, I’m not up with the different forms. I can say much the same about poker.
  16. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Lorwyn: First Light Released on D&D Beyond

    It draws heavily on Korean mythology, so if they want to expand on it they can just go to the source. I think it could make a good set. Of course it also needs to have good mechanics.
  17. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) Lorwyn: First Light Released on D&D Beyond

    What’s the title and author?
  18. Paul Farquhar

    D&D General Need help with Moonshaes Campaign

    I set an adventure there. The sources I used included The Mabinogion, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, W. B. Yeats’ Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, Doug Nile’s’ Darkwalker on Moonshae (he did create the setting) and Baldur’s Gate 1.
  19. Paul Farquhar

    D&D 5E (2024) What's New with the Artificer in Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

    All the armed mercenaries the extremely rich person will send after the party when he realises he has been duped I expect. The potential problem is the mass production and sale of real magic items, not making high value short duration fake ones (which you can also do with certain spells).
  20. Paul Farquhar

    Tolkien’s Writing Desk on Auction at Christie's

    How can I tell that it's not Lewis Carrol's raven?
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