Recent content by the Jester

I love them! Given that I use the 2014 versions of the Conjure X spells, minimals make cool interesting random summons from Conjure Animals, and that in turn allows the party druids to wild shape into a new form. But to each their own.

"Sharper" is the level title for a 7th level thief in 1e.

Are the stat blocks the same?

I need a "Depends on the monster" answer. Some are always hostile, some are going to react based on the party's actions, some might react based on a die roll.

The jerren are an evil halfling subrace from the 3e Book of Vile Darkness. Have they ever been developed further? Is there any lore for them outside of the BoVD?

I prefer to roll, but in practice, I usually go with the average. Sometimes a specific monster might have more or fewer hps than average; perhaps it's a sickly ogre or an especially burly death dog.

Well, the first reason is that I forgot all about the Next version. However, that version doesn't really do it for me- it does lightning damage, for one thing, where my version does radiant. There's a different energon type for lightning! Yeah, the take on them from the 3e Planar Handbook...

I love pulling resources from old editions- monsters, spells, adventures, etc. I convert old kits from the 2e brown books into subclasses; I update old feats; etc. What are some old edition things you brought into your game (or for that matter, for those playing older editions, what are some new...

2. I am pretty satisfied with 5e as it is and dislike a fair number of the changes we've seen. I am very disappointed that we haven't been given the chance to provide feedback on DM side stuff, such as the new design for legendary monsters using multiple reactions instead of legendary actions...

Gurpleburg Oontz is a water genasi world tree barbarian with the gate warden background from Planescape. He's into writing, his "rage" is letting the River Oceanus flow through him and guide him, and he loves to rassle. EDIT: His name consists of the sound of a running brook ("Gurpleburg")...

Almost. I ran a halfling game a while back, but we had a few non-halflings. There was a kobold who was the clan dog and a human who was adopted into the clan as a child as an honorary halfling. It was an awesome group; if you go to the Story Hour forum you can look up Of Sound Mind the Halfling...

If I were to use a different term, it would be tisane, as I discovered that word a few years ago and really like it- in I believe that in Middle English, it used to refer to teas made with, well, not tea (that is to say, not the leaf of the tea plant); it would be, for example, a peppermint or...

I don't think the assumption that anyone can be a wizard (et al) is necessarily true. In some settings, some people are born with the potential to wield magic and some people aren't.

Rooted out giant rat nest.

No.