Recent content by Paul Farquhar

Yep, which was why I suggested -3 BBY.

There are no inquisitors during the final season of Rebels, even though there were Jedi on Lothal. Why not? And inquisitors are replaced according to the canonical Fallen Order games. And why disband the order just when it would be most useful? Unless something had gone badly wrong.

You mean like the knife wielding clowns that are currently gruesomely murdering the Ravenloft Carnival performers in my current campaign? We can do a bit of slasher. Don’t split the party! My players are much more frightened of the clown than any dragon.

This is exactly correct. Hasbro is in a very vulnerable position at the moment. A hostile takeover is very likely at this point. It has a lot of IP assets that would be worth far more broken up and sold off.

It would be profitable enough as just one product line amongst many. It’s nothing like profitable enough for a trendy flagship brand that is supporting the company whilst other lines are making a loss. Popularity is fleeting. You have to capitalise on it whilst it lasts.

I’m sure WotC know it all too well. That’s why they are looking for other ways to monetise the brand. They simply can’t really on only about 20% of the people who play paying.

When do you think the last episode takes place? I would put it around -3 BBY, since inquisitor thingy doesn't seem to be around during Rebels. But that would make Barriss around 33, and she seemed to have aged more than that. About the latest date would be +4 BBY, which would make her 40-ish...

I, err, must have missed that memo. So far as I can tell, the module doesn't state a level range, unless it is in small print on the back cover.

If you like lore, there is lots in that book.

That’s why you put points in your deception proficiency. There are lots of ways to get magic in D&D. You don’t have to be a wizard.

Not really, no. For something that is currently so popular and trendy, it's profits are decidedly lacklustre. One of the main issues being, you don't actually need to buy anything in order to play.

"Only the DM buys them" tends to be true of the other rulebooks as well, not just adventures. So it's more something they have to live with than something they have solved. "How to make D&D profitable" is really still not solved, outside of CRPG flukes.

With hindsight, ToEE was pretty terrible. PotA takes the concept and tries to turn it into something that makes some kind of sense.

I tend to associate 2nd edition adventures with "the Ravenloft period". The only one I had was Ship of Horrors, which is more a wannabe novel than an actual adventure. Never had any adventures for 3rd or 4th edition. The best thing from that period was probably Masks of the Betrayer, and that...

And Mercer himself had very little input into it. And is structured like WotC adventures so that is can be easily broken up for parts.