Hriston's latest activity

Right now it looks like I'll be unable to post regularly from the 21st to the 29th of June, but apart from that, I'm in. It sounds like...

Sly Stone has passed away. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/09/sly-stone-pioneering-funk-and-soul-musician-dies-aged-82 Now...

I think that's what a lot of this thread has been about, when not getting sidetracked into arguments about definition and so on. I'll...

This is an excellent point. Tempest is the other domain I was considering for him that I cut along with Forge. The full list was Death...

Giving Melkor the widest spread of domains makes sense, as "he had a share in the gifts of all his brethren." He might have Tempest as...

That's one of the domains I'd assigned but cut for him because the domain is very focused on actual metal forging, and we just don't see...

I might suggest Forge for Melkor too. Or whatever corresponds to making terrific monsters!

Keeping in mind that cleric domains are for describing clerics, rather than their deities who are complex individuals whose...

OD&D: No extra weight, critical hits and fumbles were house rules, third party supplements like Arduin might have them. AD&D: Same...

Change Shape (I'm looking at the 5.0 Night Hag action) is ambiguous. On one hand, it says "The hag magically polymorphs into a Small or...

To clarify for everyone. I am referring to the monster ability "Change Shape", not the shapechange spell. I appreciate the discussion so...

I get what you're saying. If Durin's Bane takes on the form of an elf maiden, he's still a balrog, a demon, and a fiend on the inside...

Are we talking about the 9th level spell shapechange? If so, the only thing the 5.0/5.1 version of the spell says possibly touching on...

Yes, I said as much in this post:

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, renowned Kenyan author, playwright, and professor, has died at the age of 87.