Recent content by Misanthrope Prime

My druid PC should threaten their enemies with a fate worse than death; body dysmorphia.

Like a MILF, you need to give the humor a little time to mature.

The first thing I'd do with a ouija board is ask the spirit of professor Tolkien whether the plural of milf is "milfs" or "milves"

Beyond wasn't made by WotC, which is why it can break the curse. It was made by an external company (after a first attempt, called "dungeonscape" IIRC), then bought by a company called Curse, then bought by WotC.

A stupid chaotic evil thinks might makes right means physical power. A smart chaotic evil understands might makes right refers to monopolies of violence imposing totalitarian standards of morality.

My brother in Kayfabe, you're describing pro wrestling. EDIT: RIP I realize I'm not the first person to introduce that analogy here

The major difference is that the players can affect the outcome of a sport, they're, well, players, but the players of a "theatrical" D&D game aren't players in the narrative; they're the audience. In games as a sport, you can lose and the narrative has to deal with that. In games as theater...

Would you say New Vegas' Caesar, with all of his Hegelian Dialectics, is chaotic evil? Or is there a "ceiling" of competence for most raider chiefs and "only" more lawful evil can rise to the tippy top?

Looking at successful serial killers with long confirmed lists, or who went a long time without being caught, is a good starting point. One of the popular images of serial killers, that they're cool, calm, collected Patrick Bateman style narcissists, doesn't really bear out; they're often barely...

I'm not a Dragonlance fan but I got added to Richard Knaak's mailing list ages ago and hasn't he been writing a novel about Huma every two or three years?

This is the reason I have such a love-hate relationship with it. Individually, I think most FR products are horrid-to-mediocre and I can name only a few dozen I would hold up as "good art." But even the MANY examples of bad art form a cohesive whole that is impressive in its size and relative...

I had a writeup of muses as the chaotic good replacements for celestial eladrin (with the nine classical muses being different "species" of muse), maybe I should post that sometime

Unless melf is a blade singer, under 5.5e rules, I don't think he would have rapier or longbow proficiency; so maybe there's a way to give elves there historical weapon proficiencies back in this book

One of the PCs in my spelljammer game is a drunken master monk, alchemist and "entheogen evangelist" and she's basically turned the party into the Merry Pranksters because half of our sidequests involve dosing their enemies.