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That is not dead which can eternally lie And with strange eons, even death may die

Does it have to be an entire combat, or is "an element" of a fight sufficient?

I too frequently operate that way. In a little homebrew adventure I ran just a few months ago, I needed a fiend to be summoned (a guardian trap kind of thing). I didn't really care exactly what fiend... having them scattered all over the place made it so much harder to pick one.

Someone mentioned that there are no more "general devil traits" (since we are all using this monster subtype as an example) and that the stat block is "complete", ie I don't need to look at the general devil entry, just the statblock itself. I think that's a reasonable goal. However, it makes...

my problem is that is it incoherent. On one hand, they grouped certain "types" together - now soldier, veteran and champion are together (under warrior). Very useful, it wasn't like that before... aaaand at the same time, other monsters (like say devils) were ungrouped! Do it one way or the...

Hasn't it always been the case though?

In my "defense", I put an 8 in int and boosted it to 19 yes... but I'm a barbarian, so it is of "limited use" ;)

Isn't the default array 15, 14, 13, 12, 10 8? (the difference is that the 14 is now a 17)

One thing I've been seeing is that some GMs like starting a game a bit higher level (say 5) and tell the players "star with X" items, letting them choose. I am in a game with such a GM, and he was quite generous with the item selection (2 rares, 2 uncommons!) AND the Dungeon Dude stat array (17...

It's a 2014 subclass, but the Rune Knight is a very solid defensive fighter, who can use their rune powers for control and protection.

I wrote about how one episode of The Mandelorean is essentially 7 Samurai, which was itself turned into a western: https://slugsandsilver.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-mandalorian-7-samurai-and-gaming-as.html There is the making of a classic D&D adventure in there! In fact, it's almost a "basic...

You want an OSR D&D game that isn't just rehashing b/x? are you familiar with the GLOG?

... can you get away with doing a little skit where you're sitting in the potential jury bench, get up, ask yourself a silly question, sit down, answer a silly reply, get up and say "your honor, this jury is clearly an idiot, I don't want him in this trial!". :D :D :D

See, this is a serious error in thinking. Our today is based on the decisions of yesterday. To understand racism, sexism and other evils, we have to understand their roots, their outlook, their expression. Because otherwise it is easy to miss the impact the decisions of yesterday are having...

See that's the thing - 25 years ago, we made a big show of fixing things and then... we fixed about 20, 30% of it. It's better sure, but oh boy is there a ways to go! I too for a while bought into the idea that the problem had been solved. But the older I get, the more sexism I see - not...