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I don't think this was ever stated, actually. To me, if you start from the previously established canon that FR, DL etc are all different Material Planes, throw in the restrictions on access to the planes from the phlogiston and assume that material planes aren't infinite (just Really Big), it...

As several others have pointed out (and several more are choosing to miss), the setting honestly isn't the key - the story is. I mean Dark Sun is basically Magical Mad Max, right? I do think the temptation to cram too much backstory in will be difficult to avoid. A GoT-style miniseries would...

Well, I guess it's one option. In my current campaign the 'original' elves are Pratchett-style Lords and Ladies following the Queen of Air and Darkness; the PCs are going to have the option next session of a sidetrek into a Feywild of eternal winter. ...and I might be borrowing that. *yoink*

Actually I do remember the Thief's Handbook having a section on all-thief campaigns (but including multiclasses - fighter-thief, mage-thief). It sounded like fun; the way skill points worked you could become very good at something by level 4 or 5 if you ignored everything else, so it made sense...

We've bounced this idea around before in our group, but some of the Kotaku team apparently tried it: an all-bard party: https://kotaku.com/my-all-bard-dungeons-dragons-session-went-up-in-glori-1822930147 Now it sounds like they made a bit of a mess of it (possibly not helped by a fairly...

Why not both? I like this concept; it sounds a lot like 'Path Magic' for 2e, which was an article in Dragon magazine a while back. I'll try to dig it out. But I do remember that with that there was no issue with spells appearing on multiple 'paths' and I can't really see why that would be a...

From a (vaguely) biological perspective, it might depend on the scorpion's origin. The poison of a magically-enlarged scorpion would presumably have the same strength as before. An evolved hunting scorpion would need to incapacitate prey of a certain size, so it would depend what it eats; if it...

In my campaign the PCs are searching for a group of missing villagers. The villagers have actually entered some local caves and been captured by a tribe of evil humanoids who have just moved into the area and are going to try to auction them as slaves. However, I'm struggling to think of a...

Ooh, one more: the Death Gate cycle (by Weis and Hickman, of Dragonlance fame). It almost works as a D&D campaign out of the box: in ancient times an arrogant cabal of superwizards sundered the world into different element-themed subworlds linked by portals, intending to connect them to create...

One more potential source of inspiration from fiction: Charles Stross's Merchant Princes series, which is about a family that can cross between parallel universes (and uses it for drug dealing etc, until an enterprising businesswoman comes along with better ideas, and then the US government gets...

It may not be what you want at all, but check out "The City and The City" by China Mieville. It's a police procedural set in two cities that occupy the same physical space but whose inhabitants are not allowed to move between the two (except via an official border at the centre) or acknowledge...

I'd say based on actual history the most likely outcome would be individuals or cartels developing their own spells and jealously guarding them as trade secrets, trading spells containing glyphs of warding, industrial espionage, etc. Potentially 'signature spells' where the knowledge identifies...

I thought it was pretty impressive too, for what it's worth. How did they remove the curse, out of interest? Something not really mentioned above is that you need to resist the temptation to railroad; the subject of the foreshadowing may continue to do stuff, but the PCs don't necessarily find...

As a DM, I expect a short paragraph but don't insist on it, and encourage them to run ideas by me so we can tie details to My players are fairly new to D&D and we're playing (roughly) a published campaign (SKT), although I'm modifying it more than they've realised, so some of them haven't really...

It sounds like it might be too late, but for this specific situation remember 'specific trumps general' for 5e. If remove curse affects all curses, but a specific curse says remove curse doesn't work, then I'd say it doesn't work. You could also play it like this house rule for lycanthropy...

This is a perfect chance to quote one of my favourite answers ever from RPG.stackexchange.net (https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/83720/given-powerful-low-level-clerical-healing-how-can-sick-crippled-or-otherwise-u) in response to essentially this exact question: "You need not change...

Anyone in this thread self-aware enough to recognise that they might have been the problem is going to get an automatic +1 from me . I am constantly conscious I could do better but thankfully my players still put up with me, and in return I keep trying to get better :) Although the group I'm...

We had the opposite: the party got an NPC goblin for a sidequest, who (despite having standard goblin stats) was constantly rolling crits and dodging attacks. I think he and the 4th level dwarf barbarian tied for kills that session. I was already playing him as patronising and condescending so...

Before I leave more specific advice, 5e might not be the best system for this - would you consider running something else or are you locked into 5e?

Actually I think you'd be okay with that. Also yum :)