I love this book and can't wait to use it! My only complaint is they have a whole section dedicated to the Returned, undead people who formed their own civilisation, then DIDN'T leave rules for how to play a sentient Returned.
@@luke2261this is incorrect. The Returned lose their memories and sense of identity after crossing the River Tartyx. They do not lose their ability to feel emotions, but their emotions are dulled due to being shadows of their former living selves. They also do not follow Erebos. By following the Path of Phenax and escaping the Underworld, they’re in direct opposition to the natural order and Erebos’s will. It’s suggested in the book that Erebos hunt down Returned to bring them back to the Underworld where they belong, they’re his subjects and they fled his realm of influence. The Returned are in direct defiance of Erebos.
I CANNOT wait to DM this setting, I’ve loved Greek mythology since I was in grade 4. My players and I are also getting bored of the forgotten realms, and one of my players hated Ebberon so I’m glad to have a brand new, and exciting world to explore and create memories!
I actually wrote another ravenloftesque campaign about a sorcerer whose wife went missing and he sent for the heroes to track her down an throughout the story my players learned the sorcerer was turning things into sound and recording the sound(music) using a machine in essence creating a living symphony that he actually turned his wife into sound an was trying to lure the heroes into a trap in the end to turn them into a part of the living symphony to make her "immortal". Players loved the shit out of it it wasn't your normal go here and kill the guy to clear the way to the bbeg scheme. More a mystery to be solved.
I was a bit prejudiced against these magic settings but after getting the Theros book and reading it, I simply love it. I love mythology and Ancient Greece so the setting is perfect. Art direction of the book is just amazing. I think it is the best among all 5E books. I am now starting a campaign set in Ancient Greece & Anatolia as a low-magic/myth inspired game using this book as my guideline. Bestiary in this book is also pretty good and high quality, not just some copy/paste statblocks. I think Theros book is the most underrated book of the 5E line. Great stuff!
Because that's not necessarily any better than what they created. And it's fantasy (, make-believe) so there's no need for everything to religiously follow real world myths.
I love this book and can't wait to use it! My only complaint is they have a whole section dedicated to the Returned, undead people who formed their own civilisation, then DIDN'T leave rules for how to play a sentient Returned.
Because they aren't sentient. The returned have no will, and obey only the whims of erebos.
@@luke2261this is incorrect. The Returned lose their memories and sense of identity after crossing the River Tartyx. They do not lose their ability to feel emotions, but their emotions are dulled due to being shadows of their former living selves. They also do not follow Erebos. By following the Path of Phenax and escaping the Underworld, they’re in direct opposition to the natural order and Erebos’s will. It’s suggested in the book that Erebos hunt down Returned to bring them back to the Underworld where they belong, they’re his subjects and they fled his realm of influence. The Returned are in direct defiance of Erebos.
I CANNOT wait to DM this setting, I’ve loved Greek mythology since I was in grade 4. My players and I are also getting bored of the forgotten realms, and one of my players hated Ebberon so I’m glad to have a brand new, and exciting world to explore and create memories!
I actually wrote another ravenloftesque campaign about a sorcerer whose wife went missing and he sent for the heroes to track her down an throughout the story my players learned the sorcerer was turning things into sound and recording the sound(music) using a machine in essence creating a living symphony that he actually turned his wife into sound an was trying to lure the heroes into a trap in the end to turn them into a part of the living symphony to make her "immortal". Players loved the shit out of it it wasn't your normal go here and kill the guy to clear the way to the bbeg scheme. More a mystery to be solved.
He's cleared a lot up for me. I wish I understood this as simply as I understood ravnica.
Me too, it really is a whole new type of adventure style and stuff it’s gonna take some creativity
Really? This feels sooo much more intuitive to me than Ravnica did. And Ravnica is my fave MTG setting too😅
I was a bit prejudiced against these magic settings but after getting the Theros book and reading it, I simply love it. I love mythology and Ancient Greece so the setting is perfect. Art direction of the book is just amazing. I think it is the best among all 5E books. I am now starting a campaign set in Ancient Greece & Anatolia as a low-magic/myth inspired game using this book as my guideline. Bestiary in this book is also pretty good and high quality, not just some copy/paste statblocks. I think Theros book is the most underrated book of the 5E line. Great stuff!
I've always loved greek mythology so this book immediately became my favorite book.
Mythic monsters are the best addition to the game in a LONG time. Very excited to bust them out on my players and homebrew my own mythic shenanigans.
The mythic monsters.
"This isn't even my final form."
I love greek stuff, so Theros is gonna be my baby when I get it
Imagine an Eberron character going to Theros, and seeing a “living god”. The dynamic would be very cool.
Also, why is Typhon CR 15???
It's not the specific mythological creature Typhon. In this setting, "typhon" is a species.
^ This. Like medusa(s) and cerberi.
C Oh! That’s cool. I assume it can be “mythicized”?
Alderaan Crumbs yeah probably
Very excited for this setting :)
Half the ads on UA-cam recently have been on this game.
I bet you miss those days with the non stop political ads now
So did anyone else see this and think, "You know what? I think I'm finally going to make that Kratos inspired character."? I know I did 😅
Why not just do a straight up Greek myth setting? There’s still lots of room for originality using the ancient stories.
Because it hits the same beats and it lets them do cross-promotion for MtG
Because that's not necessarily any better than what they created. And it's fantasy (, make-believe) so there's no need for everything to religiously follow real world myths.
Personally I like the Theros setting because it is original to wizards and with straight up Greek myth you lose creativity
No one is saying you can't.
You don't really need a dnd book to tell you about ancient greece
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why does dndbeyond make it more difficult than it needs to be to make f"#¤%&/() Homebrew?!?!