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Something I've been thinking about is how to handle Horde and Alliance characters in the same party.

Back in older WoW, the faction divide was much stricter. Playing together across factions simply wasn't really a thing, and depending on when your campaign is set, having an Orc, Human, Forsaken, and Night Elf casually adventuring together could feel very strange from a lore perspective.

Modern WoW is obviously much more flexible about this, with the factions cooperating far more often and cross-faction gameplay becoming increasingly normal.

Of course, the era your campaign takes place in makes a huge difference. A campaign set during the Third War or early WoW might justify much stronger restrictions than one set in the current timeline.

I'm not sure yet how strict I'd want to be. Part of me likes preserving that faction identity and making Horde vs. Alliance actually matter, but at the same time I don't really want to tell someone they can't play the character they're excited about just because another player picked the opposite faction.

How are you planning to handle it in your campaign?

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This is sort of a general train of thought thread, not linking up to any particular boss fight so much as thinking about boss fight mechanics in general.

What are some boss mechanics you've seen, particularly in World of Warcraft, that feel reasonable to translate to 5E?

I'd imagine the coming WoW D&D book will definitely have a bunch. It's what has me most curious about the dungeons included in the upcoming book, how they'll handle all the very MMO centric design ideas over into D&D, and what learnings can be had from it.

One easy one that often pops to my mind is starting a round of combat signalling parts of the terrain as soon being unsafe. Not huge areas, maybe 15ft diameter circles or cubes. If there still are creatures in it at the end of the round, they take damage.

Of course, another angle to the same idea would be to describe it all more loosely at the start of the round, force everyone to make a save, and then ones that fail were standing in the wrong place. But that doesn't telegraph quite the same, and it doesn't force a choice of where to move to avoid it.

One of the things I'm most curious about with the upcoming Warcraft D&D book is how they'll translate iconic WoW abilities into tabletop mechanics.

Some seem fairly straightforward, but others could get really interesting in D&D. Things like Death Grip, Divine Shield, Metamorphosis, Spirit Link Totem, Reincarnation, or Bloodlust/Heroism could work very differently depending on how closely they try to recreate the WoW version.

Which WoW ability are you most curious to see translated into D&D, and how would you want it to work?

I think for me it's Sunken Temple, Blackrock Depths, and Maraudon

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Today I just got my 25th 100% on Steam with Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown! I'm currently playing Nine Sols as my next platinum and then will probably dedicate some time to complete some games I played time ago that are sitting close to 100% (Hollow Knight, Black Myth: Wukong, Doom: The Dark Ages, DS3 and maybe the other Dark Souls too). I'm also so excited for Mortal Shell 2 coming out soon, and definitely planning to go for that as well!

EDIT: Just noticed that for some reason it shows only 24 here, but 25 on my profile page due to one of these being a Beta I played some time ago

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Not necessarily the strongest or most iconic boss, but the one whose mechanics you think would translate into the most fun D&D encounter.

There are so many fights in WoW with mechanics that could become really interesting legendary actions, lair actions, environmental hazards, or different phases at the table.

Which boss would you choose, and what part of the fight would you most want to see translated into D&D?

For me, it would probably be Deathwing. I love the idea of the fight featuring some unique mechanics: battling across his body while flying through the sky, destroying his armor plates, surviving everything happening around, before being able to face him in a final encounter on the ground.

I’ve always liked encounters that force players to think outside the box instead of just standing in place and trading attacks, and Deathwing feels perfect for that kind of fight.

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Hi, I just started playing Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, and noticed the last two trophies I unlocked didn't have a timestamp. I restarted my PC as suggested online and started both Steam and Ubisoft as Administrator, and noticed that a timestamp for Oct 10 2007 was created as a placeholder instead. I was wondering if anyone experienced the same issue and knows how to fix it or if it's even possible to. As a reference, I noticed Steam Hunters shows the real timestamps, which is even weirder.

Thank you so much in advance!

I have played both World of Warcraft and D&D for over a decade, so the idea of a 5E/5.5E manual based on WoW sounds so exciting to me!

Azeroth is full of amazing races, classes, monsters, factions, locations, and stories that feel perfect for a D&D campaign. I especially love the epic/power aspect of WoW and hope it is gonna be captured in the manual.

The thing I am most excited about is finally being able to run epic dungeons for my WoW friends. I want to see them form a party, argue over tactics, survive impossible boss fights, and experience familiar places in a completely new ways. So, I really hope the dungeons and bosses will live up to that (especially Icecrown Citadel itself, given how they're making maps for it).

What are you most excited to see?

Imagine that a new 300-page Forgotten Realms setting book has been approved, but it cannot focus on the Sword Coast.

It must cover one region in detail, with an updated map, settlements, factions, important NPCs, recent history, adventure locations, and enough material to support an entire campaign.

You cannot use the book to provide a few pages on every part of Faerûn. You have to choose one region and give it the full treatment.

Cormyr and its borderlands? The Dalelands? The Moonsea? The Sea of Fallen Stars? The Unapproachable East? The Old Empires? The Shining South? Somewhere farther away?

My first instinct is the Sea of Fallen Stars, although it might still be too large for a single focused book.

Which region would you choose, and what are the three things the book absolutely must include?

Hi, I've been trying to experiment for a while on this but I can't find an easy solution. If I have two images, one I want it covered by the ImageMaskEdge, while the second one would partially overlap but I don't want it to be covered, I noticed that even when using a z-index, the second image still gets covered by the mask. Is there any command to bypass this? Thank you so much in advance