Recent content by Remathilis

To a point, I agree. However, even collectable items have a knock-on effect. A book like Phandelver: the Shattered Obelisk is going to guide people towards the Player's Handbook, DMG, and as well as other 5e related supplements. It doesn't matter if they sell the normal version, the collector's...

I think Games Workshop's handling of the Custodes is a master class in how to handle retcon lore and backlash.

If we weren't part way through the anniversary year already, I think an 1e style version of Phandelver might have been a cool project. Get some retro style art, a classic 1e style cover, and maybe some blue ink maps would have been a cool celebration item. That said, there is a considerable...

I actually don't think, with the proper passage of time, these two ideas are not compatible. WotC has decided D&D no longer has metaplots. That is to say, the Eberron model of setting a setting in a particular starting year and letting the DM advance the game via play (rather than the setting...

I skip-read through this thread, so forgive me if some of this is covered... This has got to be one of the biggest boomer-energy threads I've seen in forever. This is right up there with "GM should start making Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles again" in terms of pie-in-the-sky thinking. It sounds...

This is probably a truer origin than anything TSR retconned in him.

Meredoth (the ruler of the Nocturnal Sea) is an Alphantian mage and baron of Norworld per DoD. It added nothing to his story and there were no real Mystara references in the domain itself. He's otherwise your bog-standard evil wizard/necromancer.

A horse is a horse, of course, of course.

I pretty much agree. Most of the tie-ins were superficial at best, jarring at worst. I am also not a fan of the "villain from another setting gets trapped" thing: it creates a weird idea that certain villains are trapped (Vecna, Kas, Soth) but not others (Accerack, Szazz, or Iuz not evil...

Correct. I mixed up my Vs. Didn't know about Souragne though

1e: Dragon, Unicorn, Centaur, Troll, Owlbear, Beholder 1e/Reissue: dragon and unicorn 2e Monstrous Compendium (binder): beholder, displacer beast, umber hulk 2e: Monstrous Manual: Beholder, Lich, thri-kreen, minotaur, dragon 3e/3.5: none 4e: Orcus, Demogorgon and Lolth. 4e Monster Vault...

Al-Qadim and Maztica both missed, though Kara Tur got iCath and Rokushima Taiyoo. Spelljammer and Planescape are also missed, but I guess it's hard to make a domain about space (horror in space is easy, space in horror is not) and it's really hard to think of any domain that is worse than the...

Really, it goes to show how poorly thought out the Spellplague /time skip was that they ultimately needed Marvel levels of handwavium to bring all the important named characters back rather than let the world evolve. But I get it, those names are synonymous with the Realms and WotC has gotten...

I'm growing to appreciate that WotC is resetting most of their settings back to their original date and just not advancing the timeline. Considering all the hoops Faerun had to go through to reset things back, it probably would have been simpler to just go back to 1392 or whatever it was...

Well jeez, it's nice that SOMEBODY died in the100-year time jump! Because most everyone else made it through just fine. I get the elves like Drizzt would be there, as would the nigh-immortals like Elminster and Allustriel, but Mirt, Durnan and Volo, Wolfgar and Cattie-Brie, Minsc and Boo, they...