We got a preview of 2024 #DnD backgrounds and there's a major change coming.
But all the focus from the presentation has been on new products and schedules rather than the further reduction of story in WotC backgrounds
Why is it that none of the main settings for #DnD have canal cultures?
There may be single cities that are Venice-like, but there aren't the regional canal systems common to England, the Low Countries, Germany, France, Iraq, Egypt, Mexico, China, etc during the times that inspire our games,
Long boathouses!
Tow cables!
Backgrounds for operating the barges and such.
A peoples who swim a lot.
Reviewing last year's #Sounders transfer rumors to see how the season could have gone differently and signing Aaron Long wouldn't have fixed things.
Shuto Machino probably would have, but he's gone to Bundesliga now.
Heber isn't working out.
So, let's get funky. The Saudi Big Four that are signing all those Euro greats just before their retire? They have talents who are about to be spare parts. They're releasing some on frees!
That's the space of opportunity for Waibel to get a cheap signing.
I'm not big on breaking out PC built NPCs for #DnD conflicts, but I think this 20th level character that explores just how many familiars/companions can be had in the current rules might make an appearance in my main game.
The WotC art for 2024 #DnD has a wizard that wears glasses.
The discourse around the glasses is demonstrating a lot of people I'd never want play at a table with.
If I could qualify expert, be functionally fluent in a foreign language, get combat medic training, use explosives and the much more I did in my assignment to 5th Group with glasses your D&D game of wizards and rogues and elves can have glasses.
The #DnD movie's long tail may finally be over.
It's out of the top 10 for Paramount+ both globally and in the USA.
Numbers below are worldwide for the year.
#6 for Google Store purchases with 221 days in top 10.
#6 for Amazon purchases, 154 days in top 10.
#7 for Rakuten purchases, 149 days in top 10.
#8 for P+, 203 days in the top 10. #10 on Vudu, top 10 for 78 days. #11 on iTunes, top 10 for 218 days. #11 on Star+ (LATAM), top 10 for 46 days.
During the product reveals at PAX U the #DnD team also shared a way that fewer stories will be able to be told via D&D -- a huge shift from what they've done in 5th edition's evolution.
I'm thinking about how to structure a #DnD campaign where it starts in an area with extensive background magic, but as the PCs gain power the background magic fades out into mundanity
The peoples in the eras of history that inspire #DnD and other fantasy #ttrpg had hobbies. They sang, danced, played games and other things that didn't have "value."
Your characters should have hobbies too! Use a skill or tool on something without any mechanical value to your PC and expand the stories that you tell.
One of my players suggested war turtles as a riding mount in the World of the Everflow.
The halflings of souther Azsel ride turtles, both along the shores and across the shallow seas near Gate. The contested isles in the area tend to be low and flat.
Klers was the first to bond with a turtle, which is why the marines are Klers Brigade. Operating like a real world marines their boats always have a lav deck, low for easy ingress and egress for the turtles. Some also have retrievers.
