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I'm not a big fan of the new marilith look. But I don't think WotC is afraid of depicting sexy women monsters. What I do think they're afraid of is any hint of sexual dimorphism. If any monster gave them the opportunity for an interesting "males are one way and females are another way" take...

The answer is to bring back a variety of magic item phylacteries as well, so that it's not used exclusively for evil monsters. IMHO.

I just finished My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry, by Fredrick Backman. It was fantastic. A quick read, suitable for younger readers while not being annoying in the way that a lot of young adult fiction can sometimes be, and very moving. I'd recommend it to anyone. I have never...

On the other hand, 5e (2014) has downtime rules, and I have run and/or played in games that passed years in downtime. So I guess if you can get the party to buy in to the idea of taking ten years off....

I reduced the party to microscopic size back in 2e. There was an old issue of Dragon that had stats for all kinds of microscopic monsters, and I used the heck out of it. Eventually, they got restored to normal size. It was pretty fun. Haven't done it in any other editions, and I don't have...

As long as nobody uses bad grammar, it's friendly, but the first person to trigger it is in trouble.

Fairly common, some do, some don't. Any combination. I've seen pcs with up to, I think, four classes. I've seen pcs who dipped a level or two in one class and were otherwise single classed. I've seen pcs with fairly even splits of levels and I've seen pcs with wide disparities. It's all good to me.

If it rolls off your rolling surface, it doesn't count. The cat rolled, not you. Doesn't count. Not your fault. Roll a new die. Don't care. I don't like them personally, but don't mind if other people use them as long as they don't unduly slow down play. Absolutely not. Roll some damn dice...

Ah, I never saw Stormlord's Keep- it must have been in one of the few 3e era Dungeon issues that I missed. As for Mongoose's Drow War, I was only counting WotC material; I'm sure there might have been any number of third party epic things that I never saw.

Looking over the new Monster Manual, I have noticed that a lot of monsters have both spellcasting as an action and some spellcasting options as a bonus action. Given that monsters don't use spell slots, is the intent that a (f'rexample) cultist fanatic is able to cast spiritual weapon (as a...

I feel like published adventures are what (or should) show a DM how to use all the tools they're provided with- for example, a good high level adventure should show how to incorporate high level pc abilities in it. It should assume and require that they have high level resources to navigate the...

There were some high level monsters in the books, especially later books; but there were very few high level adventures for 3e. (Of course, there weren't many adventures at any level, but that's another thing.) And like I said, there was never a published epic level adventure, except for a...

Other. The way I see it, there are basically two reasons. The first is that groups often don't stay together long enough to make it to high levels. (As a corollary to that, high level games are much harder to play well and much less rewarding if you're not playing them from low levels to high-...

I didn't take pics, but I made a nice dinner tonight. I made bok choy baked in ponzu sauce. It turned out great. Definitely worth a repeat. I also have a winter melon, which is like a white fleshed watermelon, though less juicy, with a flavor reminiscent of cucumber; so I diced some of it up...

Home games; sometimes also at friends' homes; and once in a while at a con, though I haven't been to one in a number of years now.

High level play is awesome. Those of you who have never tried it really should. That said, I get that it's hard to keep a group together long enough to go from 1st to 20th level, and that there isn't much support for high level play; but it might be more common if there were more support for it...

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Largely. Legendary actions are in. I haven't read very far into the book yet, so not sure about legendary creatures relying on multiple reactions. By the bucketful.

Not for my campaign, no, but I emphasize long term continuity a lot more than many do. So changes to the lore or behavior of creatures often fly in the face of that continuity.

Well, the whole premise of the Blood War is basically that demons and devils hate one another and are constantly warring. Specifically, whoever is in charge of the First Hell (depending on the edition/campaign) rules over one of the major battlefields; and the first layer of the Abyss is...