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| farinal |
Posted - 01 May 2018 : 19:12:59
Anyone know any more information on this book? It seems like a sourcebook for the Adventurer's League.
Cover of the book: https://ibb.co/hO3u3n |
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| TBeholder |
Posted - 22 Aug 2018 : 04:45:55
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Originally posted by Gyor
it's a little more adult then other stuff in 5e, it mentions escorts, festhalls, brothels, and so on, which no other product has in 5e to my knowledge, so your characters know where to go to get laid in the Border Kingdoms, which really amuses me more then it should.
I look forward to seeing Gameholecons adventurers.
Did you see reports of Ed's own Knights campaign in his Q&A thread? 
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Opinion and sales are not the same thing. You may not like something, but if it's moving a lot of units and making a nice profit for the owners, then it's doing well.
But didn't people say the same about D&D4?
Or, for example, Star Wars perform well? Better than "Watching The Paint Dry", sure. But is this well for Star Wars? It isn't. Star Wars was replaced with some cut paper with its brand stamped on top, not unlike D&D 4. To put it politely. And this shows.
http://www.showbiz411.com/2017/12/24/box-office-update-fans-speak-with-closed-wallets-as-the-last-jedi-now-175-mil-behind-force-awakens
Which confirms that what we knew as Star Wars is indeed dead. Its new owners did not bury it, they place the corpse in different poses and take selfies with it, but... it's dead.
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I've no interest in the 5E ruleset, myself, but from what I've read, it's put D&D back on top of the RPG ruleset -- a position they'd lost to Pathfinder, during the 4E era. And they're continuing to put out new stuff... So, other than your opinion of it's worth, all factual indicators are that it's doing well.
That's something. But is this because 5e really perform well, or because Pathfinder grew stale (or rotten, or turned into schizophrenic haystack worse than AD&D2 in its last years, or all of the above)? Because "better than D&D 4" is damning with faint praise.
Also, which improvements happened in 5? Fixes for some of the bad parts of 3.x "backported" from Castles&Crusades and other 3rd party branches? |
| John Daker |
Posted - 18 Jul 2018 : 20:15:13
Any chance of a Print on Demand (physical copy) release of Border Kingdoms? |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 15 Jul 2018 : 15:39:39
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Originally posted by dazzlerdal
You are forgetting however the rules of business. Something may be making a profit and doing well (even beating all it's competitors), but if ut doesnt meet the expectations the company set itself (even if they were unrealistically high) then it could still be considered a failing product and ultimately withdrawn. Business is daft more often than not
Considering that they're still making 5E material, that further indicates it's doing well.
Besides, we're not talking about business practices. This tangent was over whether or not D&D had been destroyed, which it clearly has not been. |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 15 Jul 2018 : 11:07:25
You are forgetting however the rules of business. Something may be making a profit and doing well (even beating all it's competitors), but if ut doesnt meet the expectations the company set itself (even if they were unrealistically high) then it could still be considered a failing product and ultimately withdrawn. Business is daft more often than not |
| Matrix Sorcica |
Posted - 15 Jul 2018 : 09:34:51
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Originally posted by Shadowsoul
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Last time I checked, D&D was still around and doing well. This rather much argues against the point of it being destroyed.
Depends on how you look at it.
Music is still around but I'm afraid it's a far cry from the quality it used to be.
So everything used to be better? You're just getting old, my friend  |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 08 Jul 2018 : 00:31:55
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Originally posted by Shadowsoul
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Last time I checked, D&D was still around and doing well. This rather much argues against the point of it being destroyed.
Depends on how you look at it.
Music is still around but I'm afraid it's a far cry from the quality it used to be.
Opinion and sales are not the same thing. You may not like something, but if it's moving a lot of units and making a nice profit for the owners, then it's doing well.
I've no interest in the 5E ruleset, myself, but from what I've read, it's put D&D back on top of the RPG ruleset -- a position they'd lost to Pathfinder, during the 4E era. And they're continuing to put out new stuff... So, other than your opinion of it's worth, all factual indicators are that it's doing well. |
| Shadowsoul |
Posted - 07 Jul 2018 : 23:32:04
quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Last time I checked, D&D was still around and doing well. This rather much argues against the point of it being destroyed.
Depends on how you look at it.
Music is still around but I'm afraid it's a far cry from the quality it used to be. |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 07 Jul 2018 : 03:52:09
Last time I checked, D&D was still around and doing well. This rather much argues against the point of it being destroyed. |
| The Masked Mage |
Posted - 07 Jul 2018 : 02:50:54
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by The Masked Mage
You had respect for WOTC?
Even now, I'll question a lot of WotC's decisions, but I don't go for the all-out "WotC is evil!" or "Everything WotC touches turns to crap!" routine that some others do. I try to give them the benefit of the doubt.
I go with the WOTC effectively destroyed D&D for money shortly after they managed to effectively destroyed MTG for money. |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 07 Jul 2018 : 02:13:55
I finished reading the book yesterday. My only complaints are that I would have liked to have seen more maps and a larger one for the region, and that it could have used one more pass from an editor -- there were several typos and such that jumped out at me. |
| Gyor |
Posted - 06 Jul 2018 : 21:25:33
I got my PDF as well, it's a little more adult then other stuff in 5e, it mentions escorts, festhalls, brothels, and so on, which no other product has in 5e to my knowledge, so your characters know where to go to get laid in the Border Kingdoms, which really amuses me more then it should.
I look forward to seeing Gameholecons adventurers. |
| Eilserus |
Posted - 16 Jun 2018 : 19:16:12
Bought my copy last night and did a quick skim through. Very nice! Now to make time for a thorough reading. :) |
| George Krashos |
Posted - 15 Jun 2018 : 12:44:21
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Originally posted by Bragi
I can't wait to dive in to this over the weekend. Now the question is, what do I do with all of these Polyhedron Magazines.
I photocopied all the articles and PDF-ed them long ago. Much easier to access that way.
— George Krashos |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 15 Jun 2018 : 09:52:33
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Originally posted by Bragi
I can't wait to dive in to this over the weekend. Now the question is, what do I do with all of these Polyhedron Magazines.
I'll take them off of your hands.  |
| Bragi |
Posted - 15 Jun 2018 : 07:41:24
I can't wait to dive in to this over the weekend. Now the question is, what do I do with all of these Polyhedron Magazines. |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 13 Jun 2018 : 17:01:53
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Originally posted by Irennan
Awesome! Getting it as soon as I come home.
I immediately downloaded it, and popped a copy onto my thumb drive so I could look at it at work... Sadly, though this is a slow work day, I've got other, more pressing priorities. |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 13 Jun 2018 : 15:18:24
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Originally posted by The Masked Mage
You had respect for WOTC?
This was obviously many moons ago, before I was active here. I'd signed up, here, but I wasn't active until WotC banned me and I had just two options: sign up again under a different name and not acknowledge that my prior login had been banned, or call it off and just never post there again. I chose the latter.
At the time I was referring to, though, when the WotC person said they didn't need to ask us what we wanted -- at that time, the only questionable thing they'd done was ban discussions of novels in a rather heavy-handed fashion.
Even now, I'll question a lot of WotC's decisions, but I don't go for the all-out "WotC is evil!" or "Everything WotC touches turns to crap!" routine that some others do. I try to give them the benefit of the doubt. |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 13 Jun 2018 : 10:57:38
Some is enough for me because I know it will be of excellent quality. |
| Irennan |
Posted - 13 Jun 2018 : 10:46:05
Awesome! Getting it as soon as I come home. |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 13 Jun 2018 : 10:00:50
It's out!
The Border Kingdoms: A Forgotten Realms Campaign Supplement
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Welcome to the Border Kingdoms!
According to the sage Meriadas of Westgate: “The Border Kingdoms are the most favored destination for adventurers who want to proudly and boldly conquer a realm or establish their own new kingdom. Lords, counts, dukes, kings and emperors rise, proclaim themselves, and are swept away with the speed and regularity of waves crashing upon a shore.”
This fall Gamehole Con will be releasing original adventures set in the Border Kingdoms for the Adventurers League organized play program. To get the excitement going, we are sharing our campaign bible with you. It contains over 100 pages of lore about the Border Kingdoms and was written by Ed Greenwood, creator of the Forgotten Realms!
This product includes:
- Over 100 pages of lore about the Border Kingdoms in PDF format
- A high resolution map of the Border Kingdoms in PDF format
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| George Krashos |
Posted - 13 Jun 2018 : 09:04:37
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Originally posted by dazzlerdal
Any new original timeline lore?
Some.
-- George Krashos |
| Gary Dallison |
Posted - 13 Jun 2018 : 08:36:20
Any new original timeline lore? |
| George Krashos |
Posted - 13 Jun 2018 : 08:31:34
It is updated for the current timeline of the Realms and while some of the information is repeated, much is not. It also details several BK places that Ed never got to go to in the original article series and then later on the WotC website series.
-- George Krashos |
| The Masked Mage |
Posted - 13 Jun 2018 : 07:21:40
You had respect for WOTC?
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| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 03 May 2018 : 02:47:46
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Originally posted by Demzer
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I just hope that it covers more than the series of WotC articles did... Those articles were great, but they abruptly kicked that series to the curb.
That's one of the things I hate, series of articles stopping clearly way before their time. In my Realms notes there are more than a couple of series names with the references to the magazines numbers and then "why does it stop?!? [expletives]"
Long ago, before my banning from the WotC forums, I was participating in a discussion on web features. The general consensus was "they did X, Y, and Z, and they were all awesome, but then they dropped them and we'd like them back!"
That was when I commented that maybe WotC could do a poll or something and simply ask people what they wanted... And a WotC staffer came in and commented that they had no need to do that; they had their own ways of determining what we liked and wanted.
That one post made me lose a hell of a lot of respect for WotC. |
| Demzer |
Posted - 02 May 2018 : 22:05:14
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I just hope that it covers more than the series of WotC articles did... Those articles were great, but they abruptly kicked that series to the curb.
That's one of the things I hate, series of articles stopping clearly way before their time. In my Realms notes there are more than a couple of series names with the references to the magazines numbers and then "why does it stop?!? [expletives]" |
| Brimstone |
Posted - 02 May 2018 : 21:07:49
From THO
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Originally posted by The Hooded One
Hello again, all!
Brimstone, I can tell you this much: Ed updated his Border Kingdoms write-ups to current Realms time (the 1490s DR) and completed them, A-Z, covering the entire BK in an overview that the GameholeCon adventure designers formatted into a handsome gazetteer that I hope will be available for sale at the DM's Guild eventually (proceeds to GameholeCon?)...
Ed crammed it full of adventure hooks, subplots, and the like.
And I believe Alex Kammer, the master gamer who runs GameholeCon, collaborated with Ed on an uberplot to underpin the GameholeCon Adventurers League adventures at this year's con, and for several years into the future. Alex came up to Canada a month or so back to spend a few days at Ed's house cooking up things.
(Ed's also at work on other things in the Realms, including his own annual Mirt story-and-lore plus companion adventure. He held a TEGG contest, and the winner, Clinton Cronk, has designed an Ormpur adventure that should go up at the Guild eventually. I'm hoping Ed will follow through on his plans to write "Volo mini-guides" for all the locales Mirt visits, too...)
Another reply tomorrow, I hope (have ferried everything to Ed for lore replies)...
Love to all,
THO
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| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 02 May 2018 : 15:30:58
I just hope that it covers more than the series of WotC articles did... Those articles were great, but they abruptly kicked that series to the curb. IIRC, there were one or two articles Ed had written and submitted that WotC had but never did anything with. |
| Brimstone |
Posted - 02 May 2018 : 14:07:03
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Originally posted by sleyvas
Just curious, IF anyone has heard anything, is it an update to 5e?
From what I understand yes. |
| sleyvas |
Posted - 02 May 2018 : 12:49:35
Just curious, IF anyone has heard anything, is it an update to 5e? |
