More nerdrage about the Gathering Storm below the break. Be sure to read part 1 about why the Age of Sigmar is bad to get caught up, and now we’ll dive into why the same pens that wrote the Age of Sigmar are making some very familiar mistakes over in 40k.
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The Gathering Storm is the latest meta-plot arc in Warhammer 40k, booting up the story after its lain dormant for something like a decade. Anyone who’s read the title of this post will not be surprised to learn that I am not super keen on it. I’m going to jump in under the assumption that people have the basic Warhammer familiarity to know what things like the Age of Sigmar and who the Tyranids and Blood Angels are and why those two don’t get along so well these days, so if you have no idea what any of that means and you’re just here for a good rant, you will probably be lost. Vitriol begins beneath the break.
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Ending things on a high note, we’re bringing both the Sphere of Influence series for the Sword Coast and the third month of the blog to a close with the sphere of influence of Baldur’s Gate, quite possibly the most powerful city on the entire continent of Faerun.
We’re now on the penultimate Sphere of Influence post. Tomorrow will mark both the final Sphere of Influence post and a full three months of daily activity for this blog.
More than halfway done with Sphere of Influence now.
If you want your city to be more famous than this one, you need to get golden age Bioware to make a game set there. We’re going to Waterdeep.
The quotes for this series come from party members from a Hoard of the Dragon Queen game I ran. A few of them come from Langdedrosa Cyanwrath, a character that the party liked so much they recruited him.
EDIT: It has come to my attention that there is a quest in the Neverwinter MMORPG that is called “Sphere of Influence.” This blog post has nothing to do with that quest. Sorry.
This is all copied straight from the text I submitted to the DM’s Guild. You can find Sphere of Influence there for pay what you want. This is why the font is all weird. EDIT: Also, since switching the blog to a new style, the font is not only weird, but nearly unreadable. Fixing the font makes the formatting go berserk for reasons I can’t immediately identify, so, fuck it, I’m leaving it. This post is only popular because of people mistakenly clicking on it hoping for information on that MMO quest anyway. If you really want the text, you can buy Sphere of Influence for pay-what-you-want off of the DMs Guild.
Every time I think I’ve found the bottom of my vault, I remember I have more stuff crammed into the corners. So here’s some more of my old work.
In the 5e Dungeon Master’s Guide, the various D&D settings released over the years were consolidated down to a list of seven. The only one to receive official support is the Forgotten Realms, but the inclusion of the other six suggests some degree of official recognition above and beyond the dozens of other settings that have been included under the D&D brand at various points (fun fact: The exhaustive list of all settings included under the D&D brand at some point includes Azeroth, the World of Warcraft, which received an official Wizards of the Coast d20 adaptation back when “juggernaut” was too feeble a term to describe their dominance over the MMORPG market). This post is going to include a one paragraph explanation of each of these seven settings.
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