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Close, it was already an optional rule in the PH, the PHBR says it offers so many things with proficiencies you need to use that rule. :) PHBR1 page 58: Intelligence and Proficiencies We're going to be showing you a lot of interesting things you can do with the Weapon Proficiencies rules...

Wow. So you played in games that did not allow stuff from them and none of your players ever even chose to take a kit? My eponymous character started out right after I got the Complete Fighter one and the DM said go ahead and use it and I did. Myrmidon kit, blades weapon group proficiency, two...

Wizard's Spell Compendium Vol. 1 (2e) 2e Dread Warrior: Animate Dread Warrior — Red Wizard spell. Animate Dread Warrior of Tam spell. Servant: Construct Undead – Ghul spell. Corporeal Undead Minion: Create Minion spell. Spectral Wizard: Create Spectral Wizard spell. Watchghost: Create Watchghost...

Windriders of the Jagged Cliffs (2e) 2e Undead: ? Undead Shaped Creature: Dead shaped creations can be animated [by an animate dead spell]. Undead Life-Shaped Creation: ? High Lord Rhan Thes-onel, Undead Halfling: ? Unliving Remnant: ? Full-Sized Wight: ? Halfling Wight: When these charmed...

Same for Mutant Crawl Classics and XCrawl Classics. Surprised they don't highlight those three as doorbuster type sales.

Currently there is a Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG Sale going on. I found some new monster books I was not previously aware of.

A family patriarch making a pact for wealth and power at the cost of his family becoming increasingly inhuman, a tragic back story that can be uncovered where the big villain invited the curse upon themself, seems Ravenloft Dark Lord appropriate and was my first thought when they said Innsmouth.

WGS2 Howl from the North (2e) 2e Undead: ? Ghoul: ? Wight: ?

Dragons is the big one. While alignment had generally been a general bent overall and individuals could vary, as demonstrated since as early as the 1e drow modules, and 3e had its "often" qualifier for the alignment of most sapient mortal things like orcs, dragons in 3e were a striking...

From the extended description on B2 Keep on the Borderlands: Product History "B2: The Keep on the Borderlands" (1979), by Gary Gygax, was printed by TSR in December 1979. It was probably TSR's twelfth adventure, and the first one to use a full-color cover, rather than the monochrome covers...

WGS1 Five Shall Be One (2e) 2e Undead, Undead Creature: ? Ghost: ? Ghoul: ? Shadow: ? Slow Shadow: ? Spectre: ? Wight: ? Wraith: ? Zombie: ? Human Zombie: The PCs find enemies all too ready and waiting: three annis, three hill giants, and four human zombies (created using the animate dead power...

Timor, from Islands of Terror, comes kind of close but despite the Dark Lord being the HIVE Queen of the Marikith, is an individual and her hive does not share a hive mind.

I feel Eberron has strong faction identification stuff. Karrnath with their Necromancy. Thrane and the Church of the Silver Flame. Blood of Vol. Dragonmarked Houses. Interesting factions with identity that can be riffed on.

The way it divorces divine magic and gods and alignment. Clerics following any religion can be any alignment and cast spells. It allows a diversity of religions in the D&D game. It allows schisms, and heresies and faithless and false and corrupt priests. It allows competing pantheons and...

WGR6 The City of Skulls (2e) 2e Undead: ? Ghast: The nabassu will only attempt to use its death gaze if combat is going very badly, since it prefers slaying PCs and devouring them (allowing it to grow) rather than turning them into ghouls or ghasts. Ghast Guard, Undead Protector: ? Ghoul: ...