One of the illustrations I've made for Explorer's Guide to Wildemount was previewed! It was a great honor to be a part of such an epic project (and my first gig for D&D yay). Thanks @Wizards_DnD and @matthewmercer for making it real✨ pic.twitter.com/kZ1obv0NsA
Technical question about the Vestiges. Apologies if it’s a dumb question. Some abilities they hold require a “long rest” to recover use. How does that work for elves where short rest = long rest? Maybe short rest works because of attunement? Elves still take long rests at 4 hours. A shirt rest is typically 1 hour.
last night’s session where my PCs are in Tal’Dorei, something interesting happened. Hypothetical question: If the barrier keeping the the gods from the material plane was to fall, how bad would it be? I mean… the Divine Gate is what keeps all gods, good and bad, from stepping into the material plane, preventing another Calamity…soooo…
On this note…if one of the betrayer gods managed to cross back to the material plane…would constitute a threat grave enough for the Prime Deities to take down the wall? That depends on the DM! They would probably mobilize all followers and powers available to them without breaking the gate, using that only as a very last resort.
Did you decide to have the Divine gate to avoid actual Deus ex machina and to about players fighting the gods? Or was it to make clerics struggle to make contact with their god?
A bit of both. Hard to consolidate non-believers in a world where the Gods can walk. It also limits the Deus ex Machina or narrative issue of “Hey, God. I know you want my help but If it’s so dangerous, why don’t you just walk over and smite it yourself?” https://t.co/uB0IOnpSWs
Mind you, you can still visit/fight them through planar magic, and their influence is still found throughout the material plane. It was a fun tool for me to develop a sense of “mortal creations must largely fend for themselves”.
Oh, certainly! I just want to seed the idea that some societies/places believe the history of creation is false, and the worship of gods is useless. Could help brew interesting tension. 😉
I always liked the idea of “Power draws power” in Erickson’s Malazan books. The idea that the gods/Ascendants often don’t act directly to solve problems because it just has a natural tendency to spiral out of control, and involve more and more of the ascendant powers Aye, that’s precisely why the Divine Gate was developed. After ages of existing on Exandria, the conflicts of men and gods led to a Calamity that wiped out most of civilization. It was their way of preventing a recurrence.
Did it bother you to have to abandon certain lore about deities, such as the Platinum Dragon’s habit of walking the Material as an old man with 7 golden canaries? Always loved that visual myself. XD It was sad in some cases, but overall worth the device.
a question around apotheosis. The Matron challenged and replaced the god of Death. Talk in Calamity suggests that’s the way it works.
Vecna did not do this. Instead becoming a whole new god in the pantheon, correct? He did not challenge or kill another god?The first method to achieve something remains the ONLY way to achieve something up until someone else discovers an additional method… 😉
With the episodes being pre-recorded how do you keep the other players from learning about what goes on during the moments where the table gets cleared like with #Dusk? I ask them all to avoid those elements until things are revealed naturally. While technically I cannot PREVENT them from doing so, everyone at the table enjoys the mystery and intrigue, so I trust them to keep things honest. 🙂