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There's a YouTube video, The Knight of Hope, which argues otherwise.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. He demonstrates with visual examples. He even suggests improvements or alternatives like letting a whip trip people. But the thing's an hour long so I can't really summarise safe to say it is worth your time.

This is an hour-long video by a HEMA practitioner far too complex to summarise. Some very interesting comments and analysis about reach, throwing, martial vs simple, and much, much more.

Look up Scottish legends of mermaids: they can take human form but have a shawl or skirt which allows them to turn back into mermaids. If the garment is stolen then she is stuck in human form. A possible plot bunny for you.

How does the canonical spear and shield build fare? In 2014 5E it was good because you could use Duellist for bonus damage and PAM to get the butt strike of the spear as a Bonus Action.

Matt Easton has just posted a video on pollaxes and one of the things he says is that they seem to break a lot. Languettes seem to be the main counter.

I heartily recommend Tod Cutler's Lockdown Longbow and Arrows Vs Armour videos, and those videos that feature Joe Gibbs. https://www.youtube.com/@tods_workshop

I can't seem to embed a YouTube short, so here's the URL: What’s the point of a tiny shield? The presenter briefly explains why shields are different sizes. And moots dual-wielding shields.

Because he is opposed by equally powerful people. I do suggest you read the setting; you'll get loads of ideas.

Isn't a Decanter of Endless Sand (or similar) the source of one of the deserts in the Forgotten Realms?

Lorgalis is a BBEG. Even the dragonlords fear him. Arguably only Shrek and Ondoval are more powerful.

That's the sort of thing that you'd schedule a million years for moving a planet. That sort of falls into the astronomical event category.

Keep them coming!

What interest? It used to be that you paid for someone to hold on to your money.

Some things in RPGs are often very long-lived. What sort of very-long-term plans and efforts might they have? At one end, in Shadow World, Lorgalis has a tower continually built up over thousands of years by the secretions of snails; at the other, in Dune, the Bene Gesserit (granted that that's...