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I don’t even know if its a group, I always hate is when their own timeline doesn’t make sense. Doesn’t seem like a coordinated vision unfortunately.

@@joshuakanapkey6570 appreciate it!

Looking around at all the countless movie and game series thrown into the hands of people who despise them (or haven’t even watched/played them) is torture to any fan.

Basically they'd love to Notch him; as Mojang mange to divorce him from having any connection to Minecraft and make it seem like it was they themselves who're the one responsible for the game's creation.

This “Forget the past, burn it if you have to.” mindset never has proven good. We’d be nothing without it.

R.I.P TSR

Would be fun foreshadowing but I don’t think WotC is that coordinated with modules to have done that. Good idea though!

Only way I believe it is Strahd basically doing hit and runs and focusing every legendary action on Mord. Lol That and Rahadin with Strahd’s consorts helping.

The power levels of PCs increasing every book got annoying with 5e…

@@OldManMcLoyf all the while they rarely hit level 20

Hey now, canonically he’s bald by choice! But even if he wasn’t, it’s always the right decision in my head to just shave all it off if I started balding bad. Lol

Glad to hear I could help out! Fingers crossed D&D One or 2024 or whatever their calling it works out better.

I plan to use him in one of my games lol

just stopped in the mid of Avernes for my notes. I can not defend his depiction in Avernes tho I will say there are far worse books in the game. spell jammer as much as I love it is far worse mostly because it omits all the rules needed to play in the setting. massive important missing pieces that break the adventures and sourcebooks are worse than what is probably the second or third worse adventure and the worst non-anthology entry adventure.

That Spelljammer book seemed like it was just a DMs Guild quest, none of the important info needed for the setting. F-

@@OldManMcLoyf yeah it was rough strixhaven was also about as rough. Except it was an adventure without most of the adventure. I like system focused adventures like strixhaven it's something I think we lost in the 2e to 3 e transition but you still have to have a good module to support it. The system is their to be stolen and to give the module a run but of replayability. I think spelljammer onward this edition has a lot of issues with rushed books. Like the vecna book was so bad. DND the inventor of an edition wide meta plot. Having made 3 for the best meta plots in all of table top gaming only beaten by games built around meta plots like wod has dropped the ball now twice in a row. 4e and 5es meta plots went nowhere sadly. When it comes down to it I think the crunch and massive layoffs on top of wotc only hiring for my analogy/one shot adventure community is to blame. They are good writes but theirs a reason wotc has tar historically had a one shot/anthology team a big campaign and setting book team and a game design team.

I bought it because I love Ravenloft as a setting... never even opened it. I do not play 5e at all. The books will sit on my shelf, last thing I bought was the big box for Dragonlance, but my understanding is that it is lame.

So curse of strahd sucks I thought the book was well liked and good unless your saying it’s the best is pathetic because that book came out like near the beginning of the edition

@@Itachi45481 So, I'll explain why it sucks: >The campaign literally starts with "sO yOuR pArTy Is In A tAvErN" and some goon comes up and starts bellowing some invitation for 'heroes' >Random combat encounters on the way to the FIRST DESTINATION are likely to wipe half the party out, because some of them are objectively too high CR for the players to handle. >The shoehorned 'Death House' quest designed to bring lvl 1 players up to level 3 is more likely to kill the entire party, forces them to either commit an actual evil act (sacrifice a living creature) or fight a Shambling Mound, and it hinges on players taking the bait on a painfully obvious trap- so the only way they'll actually do it is if you railroad them into it. >If they don't get railroaded into doing Death House, they'll be severely screwed for the entire campaign unless you just say "To hell with it, everyone is level 5 now"- because that's about the most reasonable level to start this campaign, and even then- it's iffy. >Most of the plot is completely idiotic and makes no sense. There's a dude screaming in the basement of a church in a town full of people and no one is aware of it, and this has been happening for like a year- and people attend this church. >It somehow expects the players to prioritize a quest to go and get some booze for people. I'm not joking. >It also expects players to go on a quest to get an item for Strahd, because he told you to get it for his wedding. It's that dumb. >No, it's actually dumber- that weapon just so happens to be one of the things that will actually kill him, he knows it, so he sends a group of his enemies out to find it. Reminder: Strahd has no shortage of capable mortal servants that are loyal to him. >Any time you encounter Strahd, the players are 'frozen'- as in, not able to do anything. This isn't a spell or anything, there's no rolls, it's just to make it so you don't attack him and artificially make him scarier >Because when you finally do fight him, he's a colossal pushover to the point where you're expecting there to be a 'second form' or something, but nope, that's it, campaign over, good job EDIT: Before anyone says "bUt YoUr Dm Is SuPpOsEd To MaKe AdJuStMeNts"- if that's the case, the DM needs to do so many adjustments he may as well just homebrew an entire Ravenloft campaign. There's no point in wasting time and money on this book, it's another WotC turd for tourists.

Curse of Strahd has issues like any book but I think the problems are more easily remedied compared to other books. Lots of work from editions past to use for inspiration.

It’s a shame to see someone’s own PC thrown around in the dirt like this, that’s really the worse part of it all imo.

Good counterpoint! Though it’s kinda like he brought an energy drink to a big quiz he didn’t study for. Good to have that army of peasants, better to have researched Strahd a bit more. 😅

@OldManMcLoyf The next two examples you provide of Morden, are more clearly just name dropping.

That’s a good take on it. For my CoS I had to read the whole Memoirs of Strahd book to make sure I changed the correct things.

@@OldManMcLoyf You learn SO damn much when you read a novel based on the characters rather than Wizard of the Coasts source books. Imo reading either Memoirs of Strahd or Vampires of the Mist should be mandatory if you as a GM REALLY want to know how to roleplay Strahd.

Honestly anything would have worked better, Mordenkainen at least being there in the flesh to fight his age old enemy was required.

I do despise gygax, he sucked. But, frankly I actually do like what he created, especially older editions. I'm a full blown commie.

Wizards of the Coast has been doing power creep since third edition they started with third and just went from there and decided that power creep would be the thing each addition the characters get more and more powerful not necessarily the NPCs but the player characters get more and more powerful to the point where a fifth edition first level character can absolutely wipe the walls with a first edition fifth level character

Power creep is the worst, completely ruins editions if left unchecked.

@@OldManMcLoyf Yeah it really does.

It's important to be able to differentiate between artist and art. Even if Gygax doesn't have a stellar personality, Mordenkainen is not Gygax. Nor only that, he is an important piece of dnd lore and history as a whole which should be preserved as is instead of rewriting it into some sort of a hate fanfiction. Rewriting history is always scummy behavior, I hope you or other people won't encourage it

@@goobaloo414 nah his dungeons still trash. His “character” is nothing more than a high level wizard… who cares? You don’t know him or how he played his character so you don’t know shit lol Ps. There is no “history” being rewritten we are talking about FICTIONAL CHARACTER in a FICTIONAL settings. It’s important you are able to tell the difference between fiction and history

​@johnnnysaint01 then why do you care? You don't know him or how he played

@@veigatta exactly I don’t lol So I don’t get why they are so butt hurt about it

@@johnnnysaint01 then why did you comment?

Like being racist and sexist. 😂😅

Well, that's like... your opinion, Man. -the Dude.

High five

WOTC too

Why so? Id like to know some context

​@@sharpshooter9407you won't get it. They've been badmouthing Gary in particular for decades now. They accuse him of all sorts of "wrongthink" so they can make all their modern changes without blowback from the grognards (a term we RPGers use for people who don't like change). I have no idea if ANYTHING they claim is true or just their opinions. So yeah, WOTC "cancelled" their founder. That's like Disney canceling Walt.... oh wait, they did that already. Or Lucasfilm canceling George... oh wait. *sigh* the Left's war with the past continues.

​@@ericpeterson8732Disney cancelling Walt is a bit different, only in that he was the founder, WotC bought TSR, much like Disney bought Star Wars, so those two are perfect parallels. Lucas still lives, so they haven't gone so far as to try and label him a bigot. Of course they have done this with Gary, and even his kids. If they had darker skin, they would be praising everything that the Gygax family has done... makes one wonder who the bigots are... 😂

they ruined one of my favorite races by constantly using them for dumb shit like this, not gnome approved at all.

Bigby is a gnome now? Omg

They treated him like a joke. "Hahaha get it? He's the commentator of the Giant book bc his name is Big-by! Also wouldn'tit be ironic if he was a gnome? Let's make him a gnome!"

I think the other part of this alteration was to cache in on Critical Role's Scanlon... Ptooey!

Good, he was a foundationally bad person.

@@BigRoyBad i am really happe to see how this fact is becaming more prevalent

​@@BigRoyBadI met the guy. Sat down with him and had a meal. I personally didn't experience any odd behavior.

​@@matthewallison5219I'm sure someone also had a lovely lunch with OJ Simpson, that doesn't mean he wasn't a terrible person. Get that analogy? 😂😅

@@007ohboy I do. But you also seem to be very involved in having an opinion based on things you've heard from people you don't know.

Do you think the style of subtitles on my early videos would be good or should I do ones without the text box?

@@OldManMcLoyf I think that would work nicely! :D

especialy if you change their damn low HP which is somehow half of a cats. a noble should have 6, a tradesman whos somewhat active should have 8, and heavy labour should have 10 or 12 hp.

Don’t care

​@@JJWB199 bah bah bah, ya motha

Sure, let's make things worse still!

Cornball

Oh yeah, just like he absolutely ruined Twitter

He is dude this turban wearing schmuck named mordanwhatever is just some bald dude with a few spells

They don't want it to be Elminster, they want it to be Tasha.

Um, did you read ALL the books? Elminister started out as the coolest and most powerful wizard until the publishing division dried up. Then Elminster kept making all kinds of mistakes and he, along with the Seven Silver Sisters and Old Blackstaff himself (not to be confused with the girl calling herself that now) all retired, powered down, or just plain died. They sent Elminister to HELL. They gave him a secret daughter. I think WOTC doesn't care about the people who created their products. Look at how they treated Weis and Hickman. They announced a 5e Dragonlance campaign setting book and as a tie-in, hired the original creators to write a new trilogy of books to help promote the campaign setting. Then changed their minds. But not before jerking them around with conflicting notes on story beats. (WOTC changed editors on them in the middle of the process, after the first book was already completed) They had to sue WOTC to get their books published! So instead of a big marketing campaign, WOTC quietly quit all the Dragonlance products, including the Dragonlance TV show that Joe Maganiello was nearing completion on the pre-production. Instead of a big to do, we got a book and that's it. Did WOTC get any of their live play groups to play Dragonlance or Eberron or Spacejammers? Not that I saw. Instead they pushed Strixhaven. Why? Because it was a Hasbro/WOTC product, not a holdover from TSR. They hate their history, but also know they have a large fan base who still loves these settings and characters. So they badmouth Gary and the other creators every chance they get. If your new stuff was as good as the classic stuff, it would sell more.

@@ericpeterson8732 i am a fan from the outside. Read a few random novels, the drizzt books, enjoy lore videos on RUclips, and have played most D&D video games but I am not even close to expert on anything lorewise. Edit: As for Hasbro/WotC... I am not surprised they aren't bothered by tearing down old characters. The way they license their IP is atrocious. Terrible D&D/MtG games are a dime-a-dozen. MtG's universe beyond has brought tons of random pop-culture lore into the card game, not to mention the recent Zootopia set "Bloomburrow" or the Thunder Junction cowboy themed set... they will drag their IP through the muck if it will increase earnings.

@@ericpeterson8732 I'm a fan from the outside. Read some random books +drizzt series, played most D&D video games, enjoy lore videos, etc but I'm not even close to expert on lore. As for the issue at hand I'm not surprised the way they treat characters. They dont treat their D&D/MtG ip's very well when it comes to lore and licensing.

@@betasector If that was a thing, it’d make the game not D&D anymore.

@@LongfusedbombasticBarbarian An interesting thing is that Lysaga actually isn’t a hag, she’s a blessed cleric of the Night Mother pretty much.

Wanted to test something lol

Also savage attacks and relentless endurance are op in the battlefield with this

One more thing: maybe it would be good to get 3 levels with barbarian to get berserker subclass, and what they do is basically throw more things, wich would be good for the tavern brawler feat

Pardon me while I steal this and run with it, because the horrible dramatic irony of Strahd ONCE AGAIN 'losing' her love to his brother is ABSOLUTELY GENIUS!