Enworld.org Website Review

Ja*aScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable Ja*aScript in your browser before proceeding. When TSR Pas*ed On Tolkien Benjamin RIggs recently revealed this tidbit of TSR history -- Lorraine Williams pas*ing on the rights to Tolkiens works in 1992! So, in 1992, TSR almost acquired the rights to JRR Tolkiens work. John Rateliff was sent to London to negotiate the deal, missing Gen Con. (Apparently, no TSR employees were allowed to miss Gen Con, but he was for this...) He met Christopher Tolkien at the Harper-Collins offices, where he asked for the rights to make RPGs, merch, and new books set in Middle-Earth. Chris Tolkien said yes to the RPGs, and some merch, but no to the fiction line. Back in Lake Geneva, Rateliff communicated this to TSR CEO Lorraine Williams. Rateliff said, Her immortal words were, ‘Not worth our while.’” She then pas*ed on Baldurs Gate: Descent Into Avernus First Impressions In Dungeons & Dragons lore and games, jokes are frequently made about Baldurs Gate going to hell or being hell. With the newest adventure book, Baldurs Gate: Descent Into Avernus thats a real (so to speak) and distinct possibility. The adventure begins with Baldurs Gate more chaotic than usual. Refugees from Elturel, which has vanished, are trying to get in, and the city gates have been sealed in an attempt to maintain order, but its obviously not going to last. Players are pulled into the situation by the Flaming Fist, the mercenary company trying to keep control of the situation, especially since Grand Duke Ulder Ravengard of Baldurs Gate vanished with Elturel because he was on a diplomatic mission there. Elturel has actually been drawn into hell, or Avernus more precisely, through the machinations of archdevil Zariel, who used to be an angel before her corruption. She now rules Avernus and plans to do to Baldurs Gate what happened to Elturel. The adventure, which starts at first level and goes through 13, eventually takes characters to into Avernus and the heart of the Blood War between demons and devils in order to prevent the fall of Baldurs Gate