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I've noticed this in myself, particularly with music. When you're young and learning how things work, This Is The Way It Is Done. When a big change comes along, you're able to adjust and say This Is Now The Way It Is Done. Eventually though you go through so many of these big changes you lose...

My group only got on the right track because of the orcs. "Oh, they hire orcs here. The Lord Mayor MUST be evil!" It doesn't sound like that would happen in Beoric's Eberron campaign, if orcs aren't always evil. The Heretic

I ran it once, in high school. I can't remember the details (and I'm not sure how well I ran it), but one of my friends told me "I liked that, you should do more adventures like that." You could probably remove the craze abbot from Restenford from the equation. It makes just as much sense, or...

Speaking of other underwhelming classics, I watched the movie Heavy Metal for the first time a couple of weeks ago. It was....not that great. Granted, the animation wasn't helped by better monitors, but the stories were mostly insipid as well. I remember being fascinated (and a little scared)...

Sometimes TTRPGs are not much better. My group made a choice that I didn't expect them to take (it involved rescuing orc children; I am a heretic, after all), and now they need to re-start the journey. I'm trying to think of encounters for the trek to the ruined steam resort city and it's...meh...

Interesting! What didn't you like about Lich King? The setting or changes to game (or both)? I played through all of them up to Dragon Isles. I'm an altoholic. I think it's the DM in me, needing to see how each class and/or race does in the game. Shadowlands was probably my favorite. It...

I recently restarted my WoW subscriptions and I am feeling very meh about the whole game. Part of it is the annoying changes to the GUI that makes hard to read ("Old man yells at clouds") but the bigger part of it is that it has all been done before. Get to the Earthen city. Yay. Go to...

HEY! What did I do? The Heretic

A big part of it is the dungeon on the hill. IIRC parts of it were volcanic, which could be retrofited to steam. I think I have a rough draft of what I want the lair to look like. Much of it will be an underground wizard's lair, but part of it, the steamy parts, will be a weird temple to the...

Agreed! Speaking of which, I was considering look at B5 Horror on the Hill for some inspiration for my wizard lair/steamy city. What did you guys think of B5? The Heretic

My PHB, DMG, and Unearthed Arcana started falling apart from overuse in the late eighties. It was actually convenient, the former two lost pages in some fortuitous places (the to hit charts, saving throw charts, etc), so I didn't mind too much. I had the Easley set, so yeah I prefer them to...

Thanks DP! Yes, that's true. You may not be aware that citizens of the United States ("Americans") can be kind of full of themselves and think the world revolves around them. And yeah, a plurality of the members on this board (if not an outright majority) are not citizens of the United...

Oof, I have to be quick. Both! I'll reply to the ren faire comment later to clarify things a bit. The 'orc city' is really a ruin occupied by the remnants of an orc army. The steam was more window dressing than anything, and no steampunk imagery was intended. I was thinking more like 'a...

Agreed. That was a low blow. In my calmer moments I would've left it out, and last night I had strong second thoughts about doing so. You're post seemed a little suspicious, as I didn't remember your name being associated with any of the past flamewars involving DP. Your point of view seems...

Respect is a two way street. Squeen has shown that he has no respect for the autonomy of other people. You don't happen to be Squeen's second account, do you? The Heretic

Politicians are a necessary evil. Woe to those who are beguiled by their false promises. That's an interesting idea. I've been kind of regretting the idea to make this a 'city of steam' but I should lean into that. I needed a justification in my mind as to why this city existed where it did...

100% agreed. I think you were in a hurry and missed the part where I said the wizard's 'tower' is going to be an underground lair. I absolutely love X2. Used it already, alas. Come to think of it, maybe I could find some inspiration from Tegel Manor. The Heretic

I'd like ideas for different interesting rooms to have in a wizard's lair, and any recommendations I can look at to get additional ideas from. You have your basics, "summoning room", "alchemy lab", "reagent/spell component room", and maybe some a bit off the wall like "magic mirror...

Oh you know, I would but I don't have as much time (nor inclination) to make something up from scratch. I should clarify, I put the temple of Tharizdun hundreds of miles away, so it's not in the city of steam itself. That's to give them a bit of a chance. They're level 5. The head wizard...

Done. I am sad that he is so close minded. I would've been interested in hearing what he had to say, but not on those terms. I'm open minded and I like to understand other people's points of view, but that would've been a waste of time. BUT ANYWAY. Advice time! My group has finally taken...