Today we explore the wild splendor of Beastlands and its inhabitants while trying to figure out how to return the Great Modron March to its original route.

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$10 says that the Bandit Kingdoms will be considered too "problematic" and get axed.

I think they should include "The Gygax 75 Challenge".

That's one of the better guides for creating a campaign world, in my opinion, and would be compatible with using Greyhawk as an example.

Quote from: Omega on May 14, 2024, 06:36:04 AM

Quote from: Votan on May 13, 2024, 08:36:17 PMSo clever sculpting but if they wanted to highlight cool female characters, the Red Box has Aleena, who is both memorable and taught players important lessons about the way that the game was meant to be played. Sure, the character has a typical female presentation, but that isn't necessarily a bug in a game about heroic fantasies. Archetypes are good, right? Right? Or am I too old fashioned?

Some years back there was much bitching by the woke about how she was "Sexualized" and "pornographic" even. Because these idiots have no clue what those words even mean.

Then they are being silly. "You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means" seems like the appropriate response.

Here is a post with her picture. It's a human in full armor (no gaps, which was nice) and a belted tabard. Long hair, but so does the male fighter with her. Wasp waisted, I guess, but that is also due to a belted tabard. The chain mail is form fitting, but period mail isn't supposed to sag (it's metal). I guess there is a bit more neck in one of the images than is ideal, but what are we -- Victorians to be scandalized by a bit of ankle?

What an odd line of argument.

To clarify, while the DMG will use Greyhawk as a 'how to build a setting' example, the PHB will include images, characters, and references from across D&D's numerous settings.

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on May 14, 2024, 08:22:57 PMHow is that a bad thing? Numerous concepts now considered integral to the IP were introduced in reboots, like sparks, Primus, the primes, megatron's tragic backstory, etc.

   How is it a bad thing? Well, what color is Rumble?

Quote from: Mistwell on May 14, 2024, 08:17:45 PMAlso this was released today, "Characters from the classic D&D cartoon get a makeover in this internal art from a chapter opener in the new Player's Handbook. Artist Credit: Dmitry Burmak"

I guess they had no room for Sheila? Maybe she has the hood of her cloak of invisibility up.

Quote from: Almost_Useless on May 14, 2024, 11:42:27 PM"Oh boy!  I can't wait to see how Greyhawk has been revised and updated for modern audiences." -- Nobody, ever.

This was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the announcement.

WotC has run the Forgotten Realms setting into the ground. They need something else.

Forgotten Realms didn't get published until several years after the cartoon. Anything placing them in Faerun happened long after the cartoon ended.

Even if they were, WotC took several Greyhawk adventures and set them in Forgotten Realms in 5E, and The War of the Lance got reskinned as Rise of Tiamat. Ignoring some comic book and plopping the cartoon characters onto Oerth is easy.

Quote from: GeekyBugle on May 14, 2024, 11:58:48 PMIf it's not fanfiction why not go ahead and selfpublish it?

Maybe in the future.