I don't see Mystra being unaware or unable to get rid of this.
This is how I would probably do it.
While this would absolutely work, I don't see Shar being foolish enough to allow magic powerful enough to kill her to be used.
She popped in as a greater goddess and has too much awareness for...
That's still homebrew unless WotC brings it into their books.
Sure, but no one(except perhaps a god) can interface with it outside of one of the two weaves. Unless of course you create a karsite weave as a third weave for your game.
Ao would be even less likely, being only concerned with the lower gods doing their jobs right. As for his spirit being judged, that's not stated as far as I can remember. It would be your call on whether it happened or not.
No. He's 100 million percent dead in my campaign. If there is any spirit the gods(especially magic and death) would conspire to keep from being raised, it's his. It would take a greater god to bring him back in my game, and none would do it.
I find this thinking to be odd. It has nothing to do with buying everything or not buying everything, and has everything to do with sales and profits. That's how corporations work.
Nobody is going to sit down at a corporation and say, "Well, since most people don't buy everything, we're...
I actually find those times to be among the best times. I love it when the players find clever ways to get around or invalidate something. Keeps me on my toes! :)
Hmm. To me the PCs are just another ingredient added to the mix. A dash of lava in a cave here, a pinch of red dragon there, toss in some PCs and viola!
But those logical details ARE part of the play experience. When the PCs approach the region with the dragon's lair, they will see the impact it is having on the region and that impact affects the play experience. The local ecology and economy are going to be present in play, and to me at...
Oh, and they still don't. One of the cast in this last season was declared a sorcerer with innate powers who differed from a wizard who used a spellbook, but sorcerers didn't appear until 3e. :p
I'm very confident that 5e would be significantly less without Critical Roll. Not only are we looking at all the people Critical Roll brought in directly, and all the others it brought in indirectly through those people it brought in directly, but we are also looking at every other major D&D...
There's no way that it's scripted. I can fully believe that they know in a general way what major plot points are coming up, but they don't know the details of that plot point, nor do they know what will happen on the way there. Not unless they are better actors than most of the A listers out...