D&D 5E Quests From The Infinite Staircase

Paul Farquhar said:

I don’t recall all the details, but I certainly had all three original modules. As you know, they were setting agnostic, even though Greyhawk was the official setting at the time, it had no Greyhawk connections. The name of the eponymous Pharaoh was Amun-Ra (but not the god, I don’t know why they didn’t go with a different name) I seem to recall some dervishes and similar mildly racist caricatures, but they may have been in Oasis. Like Strahd, it was mostly bsed on Hammer Horror movies. The villainous high priest (aren’t they always) was immortal because his heart was in a Canopic jar. There was a lot of confusion between Egyptian and Persian tropes. There was a wilderness hexcrawl, including overlevelled purple worms, because Dune. The sequels hung on one of the wilderness encounters and assumed the PCs had freed an evil Efreeti Lord.

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Parmandur said:

The wilderness part has been replaced wntirely with a d6 Encointer table:

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The BBEG is the evil high priest, still, and he has his heart in a jar and is a sort of demi-Mummy because his evil unhealthy work was a rush job.

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Parmandur said:

Their goals are to not offend Egyptians, amd to create a welcoming environment for new players of all minds. I see no reason to believe that they are failing at that goal.

Lore is fungible and can be changed to create a better rhyme environment by WotC or DMs willy-nilly.

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Paul Farquhar said:

It actually had a hex map and around half a dozen location based encounters as well as the random encounter table. Not surprised that is cut though. Doesn't make sense when the party is delivered directly to the pyramid, rather than wandering around until they stumble across it.

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Parmandur said:

The wilderness part has been replaced wntirely with a d6 Encointer table:

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The BBEG is the evil high priest, still, and he has his heart in a jar and is a sort of demi-Mummy because his evil unhealthy work was a rush job.

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Henadic Theologian said:

There was no evidence Egyptians were offended by the original.

Consistent lore matters so that it makes sense, you change it willy nilly it loses coherence.

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Parmandur said:

Well, we at least know that a professional Egyptogist and two sensitivity readers went over this, and I have no reason to doubt thst helped.

Lore is a spice DMs can use to improve their game, it can be adjusted any which way.

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Henadic Theologian said:

What does it say about setting it in FR please?

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Henadic Theologian said:

I see no evidence that it improved anything.

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Henadic Theologian said:

There was no evidence Egyptians were offended by the original.

Consistent lore matters so that it makes sense, you change it willy nilly it loses coherence.

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