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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Check out the interview the @solariangames.com team did with @shannonappelcline.bsky.social about a lost TSR product line: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... What do you think about the premise of the ED Series? #ClassicDnD

Check out the interview the Solarian Games team did with Shannon Appelcline about a lost TSR product line:
https://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=37364

What do you think about the premise of the ED Series?

#ClassicDnD

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Do you like Mystara? And do you like maps? www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... Ashtagon just made a map so big it would not fit on DeviantArt and she had to ask Thorf to put it on his Atlas of Mystara website! #Mystara #Cartography #Map

Do you like Mystara? And do you like maps?
https://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=37355

Ashtagon just made a map so big it would not fit on DeviantArt and she had to ask Thorf to put it on his Atlas of Mystara website!

#Mystara #Cartography #Map

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Do you like Mystara? And do you like maps?: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... Check out Ashtagon's map of The Grand Duchy of Karameikos made in the style of Darlene. #Mystara #Cartography #Map

Do you like Mystara? And do you like maps?:
https://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=37306

Check out Ashtagon's map of The Grand Duchy of Karameikos made in the style of Darlene.

#Mystara #Cartography #Map

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Also, do you think Azeroth adventures for D&D Adventurers League might happen, so that people who like your book can have more via organised play? Last but not least, any chance we can a peek at WotC's 3e "Warcraft III Player's Guide"?: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bookhouse/do... #AskingForTheFans 2/2

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Awesome news @aquela.com! Is there any chance that WotC and Blizzard might be able to work with White Wolf (Sword & Sorcery Studio) to get old D&D: Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game & World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game products onto the D&D Classics product range at the @dmsguild.com store? 1/2

Warcraft products at the Book-House on The Piazza:
https://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bookhouse/doku.php/tag/warcraft

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

World of Warcraft fans: Crit Hit The Giant did a pretty interesting interview with @aquela.com about the new Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft book: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... What do you think of the things James revealed in the interview? #WorldOfWarcraft #DungeonsAndDragons

World of Warcraft fans: Crit Hit The Giant did a pretty interesting interview with James Wyatt about the new Dungeons & Dragons: World of Warcraft book:
https://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=37291

What do you think of the things James revealed in the interview?

#WorldOfWarcraft #DungeonsAndDragons

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@dndbeyond.com fans: Have you watched the "D&D Vision Keynote 2027" livestream from GenCon?: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... What did you think of the Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Eberron, Forgotten Realms, @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com and Star Wars announcements?

Dungeons & Dragons fans: Have you watched the "D&D Vision Keynote 2027" livestream from GenCon?:
https://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=37272

What did you think of the Greyhawk, Dragonlance and Dark Sun announcements?

What did you think of the partner products for Ravenloft, Eberron and Forgotten Realms?

What did you think of the World of Warcraft and Star Wars announcements?

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game fans: Warcraft is said to be coming back to D&D soon: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... What recent developments from the MMO do you think would be a good fit for D&D rules? #WorldOfWarcraft

World of Warcraft: The Roleplaying Game fans: Warcraft is said to be coming back to D&D soon:
https://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=37239

What recent developments from the MMO do you think would be a good fit for D&D rules?

#WorldOfWarcraft

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Ghostwalk fans: Another of James O'Rance's lost Live Journal pages has come back and Big Mac grabbed a copy: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... What do you think of this non-statistical way of writing about Player Characters? Would you do this for your group? #Ghostwalk

Ghostwalk fans: Another of James O'Rance's lost Live Journal pages has come back and Big Mac grabbed a copy:
https://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=37231

What do you think of this non-statistical way of writing about Player Characters? Would you do this for your group?

#Ghostwalk

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Jakandor fans: Have you ever tried to extrapolate out, beyond the island of Jakandor?: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... Big Mac has taken a look at the Allies, who the Knorr fought against before their journey to Jakandor. What would you do to weave the Allies into the story? #Jakandor

Jakandor fans: Have you ever tried to extrapolate out, beyond the island of Jakandor?:
https://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=37226

Big Mac has taken a look at the Allies, who the Knorr fought against before their journey to Jakandor.

What would you do to weave the Allies into the story?

#Jakandor

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

WotC also expanded these rules with free web content. Neither Monster Classes or Racial Paragon Classes are the same thing as Race-as-Class was, but if you use them alongside a 3e PC that goes for the Favoured Class option, you get something similar in theme. 3/3

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

In Unearthed Arcana, Racial Paragon Classes go beyond the problems of certain monster types being impossible to play as a 1 HD character under 3e rules and kind of turn Race-as-Class rules into a highly focused Prestige Class. 2/3

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

3rd Edition D&D kind of brought the Race-as-Class concept back twice. In Savage Species, Monster Classes navigate around the Monster Hit Dice and Level Adjustment mechanics. They create a "weaker" version of the monster that starts as a 1st level PC and that levels up to the MM monster power. 1/3

Savage Species: Playing Monstrous Characters

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Sometimes it is better to step away from the rest of the crowd and be the hobby lion. Being able to connect together two fans of Jakandor, Ghostwalk, Council of Wyrms, Malatra, Taladas or the Sundered Empire means that we can celebrate by drinking our weak lemon drink. 2/2

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Only doing "what is popular" might be best for "making money", but in our "hobby circle" we try to provide equal support for the least popular worlds of D&D. 1/2

The Piazza forums > D&D Worlds from TSR and WotC

Finding Minior D&D Worlds and D&D Mini-Settings Discussions at The Piazza

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Congratulations on forming a union. Are Dungeons & Dragons workers also allowed to join @uwotc-official.bsky.social or is the "United Wizards of the Coast" union not open to workers who don't work directly on Magic?

Mythic Odysseys of Theros - A Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook set in the Magic: The Gathering Universe

Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica - A Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook set in the Magic: The Gathering Universe

Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos - A Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook set in the Magic: The Gathering Universe

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Ghostwalk fans: @dejecteddmsanon.bsky.social has a video out that calls Ghostwalk "The Strangest Setting D&D Dared To Release": www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... Big Mac wants to talk about the video. Does DDM cover all the things you like about the setting? #Ghostwalk

Ghostwalk fans: Dejected DMs Anonymous has a video out that calls Ghostwalk "The Strangest Setting D&D Dared To Release":
https://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=37156

Big Mac wants to talk about the video. Does DDM cover all the things you like about the setting?

#Ghostwalk

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Our friends over at Threshold Magazine have another issue out!: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... Issue 38 is called Science Fantasy & Blackmoor. Download this free 138 page PDF and use it's seven articles in your Mystara games! #Mystara #ThresholdMagazine

Our friends over at Threshold Magazine have another issue out!:
https://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=37145

Issue 38 is called Science Fantasy & Blackmoor.

Download this free 138 page PDF and use it's seven articles in your Mystara games!

#Mystara #ThresholdMagazine

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Our friends over at Wildspace Magazine have another issue out!: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... It is called WSM5 It Came from Beyond the Moons. Download this free 90 page PDF and use it's fifteen articles in your Spelljammer games! #Spelljammer #WildspaceMagazine

Our friends over at Wildspace Magazine have another issue out!:
https://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=37113

It is called WSM5 It Came from Beyond the Moons.

Download this free 90 page PDF and use it's fifteen articles in your Spelljammer games!

#Spelljammer #WildspaceMagazine

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

* WSM3 The Groundling's Guide to Spelljammer (73 pages): www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... * WSM4 Greyspace: The Greyhawk Crystal Sphere (112 pages): www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... A couple of preview copies of WSM5 It Came From Beyond the Moons were floating around at GaryCon. 2/2

Wildspace Magazine: WSM3 Groundling's Guide to Spelljammer

Wildspace Magazine: WSM4 Greyspace: The Greyhawk Crystal Sphere

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

If you like Spelljammer, you might like the four free Spelljammer fanzines that our friends at Wildspace Magazine made: * WSM1 Rock of Bral (66 pages): www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... * WSM2 Elves of The Stars (70 pages): www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... 1/2

Wildspace Magazine: WSM2 Elves of the Stars

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

@dmsguild.com Will you be switching DMs Guild from 2014 and 2024 to 5E and 5.5E like @dndbeyond.bsky.social? dndbeyond-support.wizards.com/hc/en-us/sec... www.dndbeyond.com/changelog#Ja...

Changelog: Updating 2024 to 5.5e on D&D Beyond

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Greyhawk fans: Big Mac is looking to find a city to be the good choice for a location with a temple of St. Cuthbert that comes under attack in the adventure Black Rain: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... How many cities have temples like this? #Greyhawk

What cities would Original Adventures: Black Rain work in?

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Mystara fans: Ashtagon has created another map: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... This one is "Alphatian Neatharum" and is based on the Wrath of the Immortals boxed set. What do you think of Ashtagon's changes? #Mystara #DnDCartography #DnDMaps

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

* Linking settings (SJ, PS, RL), * Settings attempting to be "different" (Dark Sun, Ghostwalk, Eberron). Each setting includes some D&D ideas and excludes others. So the "sales pitch" is probably about the ingredients and how they are mixed. 6/6

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

As for the question "how might a new setting distinguish itself from the wealth of existing settings?" If you group settings you can see common themes: * Settings using ideas from Europe (Mystara, GH, DL, FR), * Settings using non-European ideas (KT, AQ, Maztica), 5/6

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Better use of the Guild Adept concept could allow for the creation of "B-Team D&D Campaign Settings" that go straight to Print on Demand format. Better use of the Hasbro Pulse concept could allow fans who like "experimental" settings to fund PoD products, online freebies or Free RPG Day items. 4/6

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

The current 5e business model appears to require high volumes of sales. That works against products that could expand out a new setting that could capture a small-but-loyal following. Selling off niche IPs could break the stalemate, but stops that IP being part of the D&D story. 3/6

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

D&D repeatedly gets minor Dungeons & Dragons worlds or mini-settings that explore ideas, but most of these ideas are abandoned quickly. We have a partial list here: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... Many of the recent new settings came from Journeys through the Radiant Citadel. 2/6

FINDING MINOR D&D WORLDS AND D&D MINI-SETTINGS DISCUSSIONS AT THE PIAZZA

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

One of the challenges of D&D, as a commercial product line is the "too many settings killed TSR" mantra that came from the 2e design team and that makes WotC cautious about campaign setting proliferation. Innovation is great. But familiar settings support long-term campaigns. 1/6

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

But maybe the REAL Dungeons & Dragons is the fan material we create along the way. 😉 5/5

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

There are several competing ideas for a D&D universe (or D&D Multiverse) including Frank Mentzer's BECMI cosmology, The Great Wheel, Spelljammer's crystal spheres, Planescape's update to the Great Wheel and various bespoke ideas in specific campaign settings. 4/5

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

"Schrodinger's D&D rules" give us science fiction elements, psionics, gunpowder, ceremorphosis, bloodlines and ancient non-science fiction multiverse empires that either exist or do not exist, depending on what D&D books you choose to open. D&D both evolves and/or reboots itself. 3/5

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Dave Arneson evolved the Blackmoor game out of wargaming and Gary Gygax turned that into the first marketable version of D&D. Battlesystem brought back wargaming aspects that were abandoned only to be brought back again as Chainmail and the D&D Miniatures game. What is old becomes new. 2/5

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Dungeons & Dragons is over 50 years old and is more of a multinational extended family of RPG rules and campaign settings than one singular roleplaying game. The current game gets called 5th Edition, but isn't. There are multiple unnumbered D&D rules, including cut down "starter rules". 1/5

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Raeken is thinking of converting the Sea Devils trilogy of adventures to Spelljammer: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... Has anyone run these adventures? How easy do you think it would be to adapt? #Spelljammer

[Spelljammer2e] Converting the Sea Devils adventures?

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

They missed out on an opportunity to give him a Dwarven Citadel from Spelljammer. 😉

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Spelljammer includes a gun so big it needs to be moved around on a flying ship: spelljammer.fandom.com/wiki/Great_B...

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Potulus!: spelljammer.fandom.com/wiki/Potulus

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Our friends over at Threshold Magazine have another issue out!: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... Issue 37 is called Villages and Towns. Download this free 200 page PDF and use it's eleven articles it in your Mystara games! #Mystara #ThresholdMagazine

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Wilderlands fans: Can you help monocules make a list of all the dragons in Wilderlands?: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... What named and unnamed dragons can you find in the Wilderlands products that you own? #Wilderlands

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Spelljammer fans: Have you ever done anything with the manta ship from pages 78-79 of The Sea Devils?: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... Did you make deckplans? How would you adjust the ship for use with Spelljammer? #Spelljammer #MonstrousArcana

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Jakandor fans: Have you ever looked at the New Sites in Jakandor: Land of Legend?: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... How would you expand out the Underdark under the mountain at Site G? #Jakandor

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Len Lakofka's last wish was for fans to see his unfinished works: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... @cannibaal.bsky.social has been funding art, maps and layout for the documents the Lakofka Archive already have. If you have any Lakofka tournaments, please get in touch. #LakofkaArchive

Cannibaal Publishing seeking Greyhawk collectors to help Lakofka Archive

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Spelljammer fans: Wildspace Magazine wants your help: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... Can you contribute to WSM7 Realmspace: The Forgotten Realms Crystal Sphere? Send in your proposals now! #Spelljammer #ForgottenRealms #Realmspace

Call for Contributions: WSM7 Realmspace: The Forgotten Realms Crystal Sphere

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

13th Age fans: AusJeb has shared his ideas of how the Icons view dragonborn in his campaign: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... What do you think of this take? How does it compare to yours? #13thAge

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Hollow World fans: Have you ever been curious about icebergs near the polar openings?: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... Cab is trying to figure out if they would form in winter and drift through the polar openings. What is your feeling on this? #HollowWorld

Seasonal ice, icebergs, the Southern polar opening

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The Piazza @thepiazza.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

13th Age fans: Escalation! A 13th Age Fanzine needs articles for their "In My Dragon Empire" special: www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic... Please consider submitting details of your Dragon Empire so that everyone else in the community can enjoy them. #13thAge

Escalation Articles Needed: In My Dragon Empire

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