Recent content by Maxperson

That's the invention that @Hussar said I had to stay away from. As DM I can make that happen, but going strictly by 5e lore, they are all from Tymanther.

That's the whole point. The article is just one version of pure fantasy.

Two reasons, one of which I just gave to not far back in the thread. The other is that the DM's Guild is horrible for getting the product out to the overwhelming majority of D&D players, who don't use it. It needs to come from WotC in an official product or it will be of no use.

Spelljammer was a badly done 5e setting, yes. The new Forgotten Realms was a well done one by all accounts. Why should I assume that Dark Sun would be done badly?

Lizard people. They don't look anything like The Dragon. You've said this twice now, but I still have no idea what you mean by it.

Incorrect. They are all from Tymanther as far as I know. I don't have the new book, so that might have changed. Going with 5e lore only, Tymanther is where they are all from. Again, incorrect. The Dragonborn lore explicitly says that they have spread throughout the realms as fine...

Yes and no. They are "common," because they are on the planes, but they are by no means as common as humans. Not even close. They're just more common than on say Toril or Oerth. When it talks about the planar races, it says Humans, Githzerai, and Half-Elves. Then it says and also some more...

Making a high module for general consumption cannot be done well, because it has to appeal broadly to people, and that means monster fights, traps, etc. which don't do high level well. It's a catch 22. They need to not make high level adventures, but teach DMs how to do it themselves. There...

Right. As I said, nobody has taught them how to do it right, so they do it wrong and just try to make it about fights. You're just proving my point here. I've run dozens. Just not pre-written ones, because they generally aren't very good.

There's zero reason for them not to exist as color coded. There are no color coded dragons, so the color coding would just be something that is a part of their race, not something connected to color coded dragons. Color coding therefore would not be anything the people would use to connect...

No idea. As an NPC he doesn't need that history in his position. He has a history, but it's up to the DM to provide it if for some obscure reason it becomes relevant. You can write up as part of your background a connection to Candle Keep and how you befriended Skoda(Bookwyrm), staying up...

That's why you need advice, not a formula. Advice on how to set up and run high level play isn't a formula. It's more like a set of guiding principals that you use to create and run the adventure. I'm bad at articulating what it is that I do, but I do know that I have successfully(as in fun)...

That Dragon isn't unique. There is only one that has fully transformed, but every Sorcerer-King is somewhere along the process of transforming into another one. Dragonborn look a lot less like the dragon than a lizard. People wouldn't make that connection. The transformed dragon isn't in any...

No. Your mistake is in thinking high level play is all about the fight.

Sure they can. If they couldn't, there would be no DM's Guide. The best high level adventures don't limit any toys. They embrace them and/or avoid being destroyed by those toys. Meh. Those aren't good adventures. I've never needed to use those tools to limit things. A few now and then, but...