Recent content by Remathilis

No, but the minute you have teleportation circles, you have the same effect Star Trek transporters have. You start to lose the "world outside your door" aspect. It's a world building issue that any sort of speculative fiction wrestles with I guess. After all, the Marvel universe is full of Gods...

Honestly, I think its looking like you could not just do a "contemporary D&D setting" without sci-fi bleeding in on the edges. Its the old Arthur C Clarke conundrum.

Except in the areas of cybernetics, medicine, and internet interface. We still don't have fully functional prosthetics, for example, and a smart phone is no where near equivalent to a cyberdeck. But if you're going by publication date, I would assume the game would need fully functional Gundam...

Shadowrun is cyberpunk, not modernistic technology. I'm assuming that the op wanted D&D but the world resembles our modern level of technology, not a sci-fi/fantasy hybrid. The RPG world is lousy with those.

Mercers gunslinger is a fighter subclass. Your mixing it up with Mage Hand Press base class. And I'm not suggesting Mercer's subclass would be a perfect fit, only a template you could use to build a more modernistic fighter. Nonmagical hackers sit at a computer and code. That's a skill check...

Yeah, Madam Eva was invoking a long line of stereotypes common in the 20th century and earlier. And if Madam Eva was a one-off character, you could at least mitigate the damage somewhat. Unfortunately, Every Vistani became Madam Eva, and the trope got pushed to rather uncomfortable extremes.

Why don't they? A marksman isn't that different that Matt Mercer's gunslinger (adjusting for firearm technology differences) and a hacker would easily be an artificer subclass focusing on controlling technology (computers and robotics), assuming your not adding a Cyberpunk like hacking mini-game...

Huh, the Greyhawk wiki has an article on Greyhawk 2000 https://greyhawkonline.com/greyhawkwiki/Greyhawk_2000 Its a little more sci-fi than I remembered, but I would wager magic's effect on our world would create a lot of sci-fi like elements, such as faster-than-light travel or bio-engineering.

You reach a point where even holding the property is a hot potato. Do anything new with it and people will complain about the changes. Do nothing with it and people will complain the property is dead. Keep within the established boundaries and people will complain about no new ideas and...

At that point, you've stopped making a D&D setting and started make a 5e-compatible RPG. For me, two important questions needs to be answered. 1.) What is the relationship between the mundane world and the supernatural? Are the elves, wizards and vampires part of society or hidden? Does the...

I would argue to the extent that they had any influence post I6 and I8, the Hickman elements were added by other people who interpreted them very differently then Hickman did. That's not to say the Vistani in I6 are done well, but moving them from small element of I6 to major power players in...

Well, that's the age old question in all media, isn't it? Lots of iconic characters resonate with today's youth because they are reinvented for new generations. Characters like Batman or Spider-Man are decades old properties but still are popular not just with kids but their parents and their...

D&D has quite a few iconic characters, places and things, but they're all spread out over the Multiverse so that you can't have them meet or do anything unless they start doing Multiverse shinanigans. It would have been cool to see Drizzt fight the Lord of Blades, Raistlin acquire the hand of...

From a purely gamist perspective, it would have been a good choice if for nothing more than being a fairly modern take on D&D tropes and would be wide enough to fit everything into it. From a marketing perspective, Forgotten Realms all day long. The problem is that the Realms can only be...

A similar comparison could be made with Innistrad being gothic horror fantasy in the vein of Ravenloft, but Duskmourn being being an urban fantasy horror setting. It HAS TVs and stuff!