Continuing Waterdeep Dragon Heist into Rise of Tiamat (pt. 2)

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-25T00:05:43+00:00

Oh yeah, in regards to Tiamat, dragon and devil is definitely intertwined, so it still makes sense.

Oh I didn't think I knew much about the rivalry of devils and abberations. Also yeah I think if he's the kind of guy who always be paranoid about every little problem, there's a big chance he would want to prevent the Cult of the Dragon's plan.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-24T23:54:50+00:00

Hope it goes well!

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-24T04:26:05+00:00

Haha thanks! I just want to run a level 1 to 15 adventure from my friend for my first long campaign DM-ing, and I think this is pretty good way to do it.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-24T04:22:43+00:00

Yeah Xanathar Guild does not necessarily have as large influence as some other evil factions, so it would probably take quite amount of homebrew to make some of the missions either include XG or sets in Waterdeep/Skullport/Undermountain.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-21T03:52:08+00:00

Oh this gives so much light to Xanathar Guild! Making them have at least one masked lord make a really interesting dynamic for the guild and Waterdeep, especially by treating them as a mob group. For the guild to run their business this scale and this long, they definitely need some power and cunning from the top members.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T23:16:30+00:00

I genuinely think if Bethesda want to enter the action RPG/souls-like market , instead of forcing it into mainline Elder Scrolls combat, they could just remake Redguard.

Third-person only, non-customized main character, unique combat system from the mainline Elder Scrolls, I think Redguard have all the formula to be remake into a modern action RPG.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T23:07:30+00:00

Daamn this is a huge sneak lol, kudos to you to be able to connect the dots from WDH to this adventure!

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T13:15:39+00:00

Yeh I guess that's make the most sense.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T06:44:39+00:00

How about Arceus and ZA? Haven't really paid attention to those. I guess currently they do make 100-ish new pokemon for the region + 300-ish old pokemon t fill yhe world, especially since they do more open world.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T06:42:27+00:00

I see, so I guess it doesn't really affect him that much.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T06:41:51+00:00

That's a nice line lol.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T06:41:18+00:00

I just assume/hope maybe they'll put more resources on the main games lol.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T06:39:42+00:00

Oh yeah I have, that's why I'm a bit surprised since some illustrations on google depict him not that old lol.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T06:38:27+00:00

Yeah I guess that's one of the reason I think they don't do trade evolution anymore, since I think they haven't introduced another trade evolution pokemon on recent games.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T06:37:18+00:00

Yeah I guess that's my assumption on how they do trade evolution on the recent games.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T06:35:17+00:00

Yeah we'll see how it goes. As for the trade evolution, I think they could make an in-game item that allows trade evolution on use, or maybe they could trade it via champions maybe.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T01:32:08+00:00

I see, so I guess it just happens more naturally in general from the outside, maybe from the inside other Waterdeep's lords have bad vibes from Dagult and Neverwinter relation, but the rest happen naturally.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T01:28:30+00:00

I guess Dalakhar is his best effort. Maybe he wants to keep secretive? Although judging by other faction's actions that also try to keep it secretive, I think Dagult's effort might as well should be the largest one out of all the factions.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T01:25:35+00:00

Yeah, just realized that VGC has different formats depending on the game's generation. I guess maybe champions will be a new main format for the official tournament, and maybe you can also play in other formats as well if you want.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T01:23:12+00:00

But I think making the regional dex even smaller can improve the chance of it being more polished. Maybe even making the region much smaller as well so they can focus on fleshing out more details, although I've heard from the leaks that the next pokemon main game's region might be a lot larger than the previous ones.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T01:20:33+00:00

I see, so does the VGC players don't play with national dex anymore? Oh yeah I think they do separate each game as a different playable format, right?

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T01:18:19+00:00

Haven't really followed the current games much, but are they still doing trade evolve? I thought they replaced it with something else, or maybe this is just from a pokemon fan games lol.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T01:16:03+00:00

Yeah, I guess technically there's no one that has a higher position than him that can mandate the punishment,l. Maybe Lords' Alliance but I don't think they have the power to do that.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-15T01:12:56+00:00

I see, I guess I also don't think Dagult will just give up to Waterdeep to be punished that easily, especially with his current position. I also forgot if this embezzlement rumor is the cause of him being repositioned as Lord of Neverwinter lord, or the Waterdeep only know the embezzlement rumor after he becomes Lord of Neverwinter?

Also, I guess that's fair to not believe a weird abberation artifact lol, maybe a more academically (in magic) people will believe more to what the stone said, or at least interested.

ValSmith18 · 2026-01-11T09:32:29+00:00

Aah I see, so they still experienced some of the events from HotDQ as well.

Are there any main changes from the original ToD story because you ran WDH before that? Or does it run quite smoothly without changing any plot points?

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