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If Paizo (or anybody else that's currently financially leeching) wants to avoid the 25% kickback to WotC (for twinning their IP), then that's that. But to get on with anything other than that, it's ridiculous. Smart, to try and stir up dust, but some of us can still see If they want to go in the dir...

Huh. Quick reads tells me Wizards are casting defensive spells to protect their domain. Years of low percent high profiteering are, potentially, coming to an end. "Thanks for helping with the proliferation of our brand using the tools we supplied you with (wasn't that the whole point?), but if ...

For me, George Weathermay. Hands-down. One of the few "good guys" in the Black Box (I can't think of any others right now all the same, outside of Van Richten), and his touch up in 3E was as I've said before the most organic in so far as my mind envisions the wear and tear nature of Ravenl...

True. They got the backing (plus at the least limited resources from their defence package co-signs). But does Borca have enough grit for colonisation? Slaves as fuel for their envisioned economic engine of the Core (and possibly beyond)? Political savvy, for sure. They do have several ingredients a...

I'd say that there are times where support cast is more important than the lead antagonists. They are oftentimes the introduction or hint to a particular echo of evil that lies in wait for our heroes, the initial rev of tension, the rock that is found (and flipped), blah blah. Call it what you will....

For me, Ravenloft was always about highlighting evil and presenting said evil to the table as a series of challenges for them to contemplate. Sometimes the fight was futile, sometimes it led to conditional victory. Sometimes the fight was external, sometimes it was internal. Etc etc. Where I got my ...

Micheal Myers is indeed a character I do not like, even if the first movie is great. However, I'm not saying it can't be used, I say I do not use it. And all I'm really saying is that sometimes a "simple, born evil" monster can be the vehicle for a rather complicated and far-reaching narr...

Of course. I simply find the idea of born evil disgusting on a personal level and too simplicistic on a narrative one. Born evil characters are just machines programmed to do evil; no depth, no evolution, no interesting backstory no flavours at all. Think about Frankestein by Mary Shelley; the Crea...

Its like a movie reboot, in a way. Yeah, very much looks that way. And like movie reboots it looks like they went right back to the beginning. Just as Curse of Strahd was a reboot of the Ravenloft module, Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft looks to me to be a reboot of the Black Box. Its presentation...

First, as a mod, language. That post slipped a little into PG-13. And I should probably reiterate that we at the FoS do want this community to be accepting and inclusive of everyone. [/color][/b] I do want to keep this discussion mostly focused on Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft . This is not the ...

I describe myself as "woke" sometimes. I try to be progressive (or as progressive as a middle-aged white man can be) and definitely encourage D&D products to include diversity. Because everyone should be able to see themselves in the game world and feel welcome in the hobby. D&D s...

The text says "Locals have varied hair colors and a range of skin tones from black to pink, often with reddish undertones." I should've included the next sentence in the text to better illustrate the effort put in to include all. The groundbreak I mentioned earlier. "Celtic and Engli...

The "woke" crowd says skin tone shouldn't matter in a fantasy world because it doesn't necessarily conform to the real world. But, obviously, it does matter in the real world or they wouldn't be putting so much gosh-darn energy into gender- and race- flipping everyone and everything. You ...

The text says "Locals have varied hair colors and a range of skin tones from black to pink, often with reddish undertones." This implies Mordent is the most diverse domain in the book. At least, in regards to skin tone. Culture in this domain isn't bound by skin colour as it often is (ridi...

How can you tell he's black from these pics? His socks?... :mrgreen: Haha Apparently this version of Godefroy was an avid golfer. So, where's his clubs? Actually kinda cool attack now that I thought about it. Spectrally-wicked strikes against slave ghosts and any others unfortunate enough to be aro...