PurpleXVI posted:

Don't forget btw that Elminster gets to Ed Greenwood's living room from his personal death star battle station orbiting the same star as Faerun(or is Faerun the continent, and Toril the planet? Whatevs.).

MonsterEnvy posted:

At least the Metallics did decided to do something once they found out the eggs were being hosed with.

Nemo2342 posted:

Good news, there's going to be a sequel this year:

https://twitter.com/ThronesBeware/status/1221997682161606656?s=20

Tibalt posted:

Now I want someone to describe Star Trek to me after only reading the Klingon focused EU novels.

"Mostly it's about being thirsty for rhino-people in loving sadomasochistic relationships and committee political maneuvers."

Xiahou Dun posted:

Uh if you wanted to say, run some WHFRP over discord I know a server and at least one incredibly enthusiastic potential player.

90s Cringe Rock posted:

it's a shame they made a new model for nagash instead of just converting the old one to plastic and letting everyone experience it

Everyone posted:

Figure at this point with Nagash you can never not hear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrlymHW0qU8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2k7Jf9xO3g

Ithle01 posted:

Thought of Darkness, Part Two

Let's talk about the fight against the dick-monsters. Vampire illithids are like regular vampire combined with illithids. They start the fight with a psionic blast to paralyze you and then engage with their tentacles. Each enemy gets four attacks per round - one for each tentacle - that deal minor damage, but drain two levels on a hit. That's twelve attacks each round that drain two levels on each hit in a realm where if you sleep you get ambushed by nightmares and players explicitly cannot regain spells above third level. Good loving luck. Turning the vampires doesn't work because that would be too easy. Because they're vampires the monsters regain hit points each round and on a successful hit with their level drain attack so this fight might go quickly or take forever while the party doom spirals down the drain as the vampires heal off of their level drain. Also, the vampires' psionic blast is stronger than normal illithids and the saving throw is at a -4 penalty. Failure paralyzes the victim for 1d6 rounds and causes an automatic madness check. Unlike the other inhabitants of Bluetspur these enemies will try to kill PCs and eat their brains. No mercy, no prisoners because vampire illithids are deranged monsters that are rejected by the illithid society of the domain for being too dangerous. Annitella will tremble in terror, but eventually assist the party. After the fight is over (assuming you survive) Annitella explains that these are the spawn of von Zarovich she was warning you about. That's about it. If you kill the vampire illithids they turn to mist and flee down a crack in the caves, but their lair isn't very far off and you can kill them while they're recovering in a comatose state. There is no treasure.

Falconier111 posted:

Oh no.

Falconier111 posted:

I couldn’t decide what parts of this I wanted to quote, so I quoted it all. I mean, I know this is the 90s, not the 80s, but I’d associate emphasizing personalizing the setting so heavily that you imply not doing so makes you a worse GM with a more modern game than one published in the heyday of meta-plots.

Loxbourne posted:

You may want to check back through the thread for our discussion of Deadlands. It had not one but multiple super-powerful NPCs the GM was supposed to use to beat uppity parties back into line if they went off the metaplot, and mechanical conceits set up to reset the metaplot if the PCs derailed it.

Obviously the game had no way to enforce their use, but it seemed to have genuinely never occurred to the Deadlands writers that players might want to shape their own world instead of just being spear-carriers as the pre-written plotline played out.

Alien Rope Burn posted:

Siembieda has, in a rare bit of self-awareness, admitted in the they're not really suited to tackle the Middle East, so it's been avoided.

Falconier111 posted:

Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:

Bluetspur is still around! 5e replaced Von Kharkov though, so anything you find about him is likely to be pre-Van Richten’s Guide by an old-school Ravenloft fan

Libertad! posted:

If you want a good collection of classic domains revamped for 5e, Van Richten's Encyclopedia of Darklords & Domains is a 2 volume series that collects every pre-5e domain there is. It even takes domains that were detailed solely in novels or appeared just for one adventure, that's how comprehensive they are!

https://www.dmsguild.com/product/385023/Van-Richtens-Encyclopedia-of-Darklords--Domains-Volume-1

Van Ricten's Encyclopedia of Darklords and Domains posted:

Kharkov was born a panther in Toril.

Cessna posted:

Why does GTA - a game about stealing cars and low-level crime - have a tank?



Because sometimes gamers want to do dumb destructive stuff.

Pakxos posted:

I mean, what are they going to say, 'sorry we got what we wanted"? Better just to move on.