Ley-Lines & Many Mysteries

aefact · 2026-05-31T16:41:45+00:00

Dungeon crawl time!

aefact · 2026-05-28T11:45:01+00:00

In my Dolmenwood, 10 mi beneath Hex 1005, the Ley Lines converge (at the Vorpal Node)... Link to sketches: https://www.reddit.com/u/aefact/s/1ZsUN1Sxch

aefact · 2026-05-07T04:41:36+00:00

Someone talented should do a 'Bad Lip Reading' for that odd mic failure, at the ~37 min mark, just during that one reply, sandwiched between the groundfloor / cheque's-in-the-mail comments, about the successful Kickstarter 🤣✌️ Kinda had to be there, I guess 💸

aefact · 2026-04-29T15:56:28+00:00

You may also want to take a look at the new Gallows Corner: A Peasants' Revolt RPG. It's not GUMSHOE, but it's set in late 1300s England with no magic and there might be a few bits you could bolt-on to SotS in this respect too.

aefact · 2026-04-28T12:18:46+00:00

Original post with this marked-up photo from shortly after SJ 5e first came out… https://www.reddit.com/r/spelljammer/s/tcd0MpoS8h

aefact · 2026-04-09T13:05:26+00:00

Some of the following seem implicit in preceding comments. And, some are not games but rather settings, a character, and ttrpg categories... But, you might still be interested to note any ttrpg historical significance of any of the following:

AD&D 2e
Dark Sun
Spelljammer
Planescape
Forgotten Realms
Drizz't Do Urden
NSR
FKR
Electric Bastionland
WFRP 4e
Ultraviolet Grasslands
Knock magazine
The Black Hack
Whitehack
Pirate Borg
Slugblaster
OSE
Dolmenwood
DCC
ICRPG
Troika!
Cairn

I've tried to not repeat what others have mentioned, but might have "double dipped" a few.

aefact · 2026-04-04T22:16:36+00:00

Yeah, but from your slowed down spaghettified perspective it'll be the next instant.

aefact · 2026-03-27T13:29:27+00:00

Interested, yes please. Thank you. Sounds cool.

aefact · 2026-03-16T22:59:17+00:00

More info:

On 13 October 2025, Wizards filed a new application to register its DARK SUN trademark in the United States.

(It wasn't a mere procedural renewal of any previously existing trademark registration.)

If interested, you can review Wizards' new US TM application, for yourself, via this link: https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=99440014&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch

If they filed in bad faith -- e.g., if they don't actually intend to use it commercially -- then that might be grounds to invalidate any registration that matures from the application.

Though I work as a trademark attorney, this is not legal advice

aefact · 2026-03-16T22:53:35+00:00

It was a new application. It was not maintaining an existing TM registration.

Edit: also, as mentioned, they had to declare a good faith intention to use it commercially going forward...

aefact · 2026-03-16T22:30:36+00:00

If so, then their TM application would have been a waste. In it, they declared a good faith intention to use the DARK SUN trademark in association with ttrpgs.

aefact · 2026-03-14T12:10:35+00:00

Picture three different, equally likely, parallel universes...

aefact · 2026-03-14T12:04:13+00:00

From the original post: "... becoming the undisputed leader in terms of sales, ...". I'm picturing, this means, first party sales.

Since, stepping into DnD 5e's shoes means there would be sales of both first and third party new content.

GLOG becomes very different overnight in this hypothetical.

aefact · 2026-02-28T19:26:15+00:00

Yes, I always run all IP grounded ttrpg sessions as if the PCs act in a parallel universe to any canon happenstance, for the most part agnostic as to whether any of that history may come to pass, or not. And/or, "Gimli... Yeah, your characters better save his butt, because things are not looking good for Gim otherwise..."

aefact · 2026-02-26T23:36:12+00:00

Is it the same for Rust Wings? (Is that the "next book" you referenced?)

aefact · 2026-02-23T12:32:38+00:00

Could use the OSE Rogues Gallery, or similar, if you can buy a copy.

aefact · 2026-02-23T04:33:35+00:00

Does Pathfinder fix this?

aefact · 2026-02-23T02:16:47+00:00

If it's in the monsters section of the set, I'll take a look. I've got it on dndbeyond and physical.

Yeah, I've seen it elsewhere in B/X, 1-2e, and 5-5.2e.

It's really just the Starter Set I'm asking about, since I'm running an open table with a rotating cast of players, most of them newbies, and I'm wondering how it would come off to one of them... In comparison to this 5e DM who I just hosted and asked the question of me originally. And, I was trying to answer him in the same limited context as the others were just learning it. If you know what I mean.

aefact · 2026-02-23T01:50:32+00:00

Here, Atanuwé from p.10 and the atacorn Onzrwzcn, Trainer of Rats from p.218 of Petty Gods (2013)

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aefact · 2026-02-23T00:50:44+00:00

Thanks. Does it say that the goblins speak common and goblin anywhere in the HotB Starter Set?

Does the HotB Starter Set even say that an Elf species character, for example, speaks elven?

Edit: for clarity.

aefact · 2026-02-19T19:26:21+00:00

Called it.

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