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I do '50gp onyx & 2x 75gp opals' over "3x gems totaling 200gp" because my games tend to allow for crafting. Red gems for fire items, blue water, tiger eye for vision/animal items, etc. I also give the "sale" price of gems by default so they can properly value them as a currency. Between...

If they are 9 now, why not just run these characters? Have a session -1 to build characters up to 11 and then session 0 is an 11th level boss fight and then they level them up to 12. Skip some character time but have a bit of "getting used to the new level" time.

I see someone's Patron grants Raise Thread

Princes of the Apocalypse is an official 5e adventure-path that is pretty filthy with loot. It gave out many rares and two Legendary, excluding the plot-mcguffins. I mean, it introduced 5 new Uncommon magic items and 2 new Rare items, plus a bunch of Very Rare/Legendary mcguffins.

Depending on when/where Architecture was for structures, including plumbing and water supply Engineering was siege engines (ballista, catapult, trebuchet) There were overlaps at various points with mining (sappers) and shipwrights (hoists, winches, etc). Clockworks could be machinery. The...

I think the meme is "tell me you have never listened to the lyrics of any RAtM songs without saying you've never listened to the lyrics of any RAtM songs" I mean the band's name is a political statement.

. I didn't say it was for fighting, I said it was "distilled cult leader". The cult does the fighting for Dear Leader. That way Leader can escape and become a recurring villain.

For the reasons you give its nearly useless for PC clerics, but it is ideal for evil NPC clerics. I mean, if Fus-Ro-Dah is the verbal component/evil mantra of an evil priest, each use results in a progressively scarier effect. A door slams shur, a peal of thunder, candles change color, the...

Huh, didn't know potions of Raise Thread existed....

By RAW/XtGE, 1st level spell scrolls are cheap, at least in adventurer terms. 1st level are 25gp of materials and 1 day effort, so guesstimating a 50gp price is worth it for "just in case" spells.

The barbarian will wind up carrying low level spells the other casters know and don't need a scroll (or won't prep but the barbarian would like it cast on them) or that can't be cast on other people or that might be handy when the barbarian is by himself. E.g. Longstrider, Expeditious...

At this point not a whit. While I prefer other than a magazine-esque paper cover for durability, I have enough old gaming mags to know that I can keep them around for decades. These days I care about font size/legibility. You put some spidery, single-point, overly-serifed...

I'm fond of Midsommer Murders, a BBC series going on like 15 seasons. It's on Roku and probably some other free streamers. Very little blood, but be warned it has a surprising amount of incest and numerous grudges going back several centuries. Also some homophobia from the original sargeant.

So which supernatural abilities are cheats and which are win conditions? Illusions of the illusory cyclops blinking? Illusion of your eyes not blinking? Alter/polymorph self to a fishy creature that cannot blink? Ring the bell using telekinesis? Bull's Strength? Enlarge? Catching the...

I also use random encounters as a kind of live "world building" exercise. A large band of goblins could be a nomadic group, on their normal rotation inside their established range. Perhaps it is a raid/punitive attack on other goblins. Maybe refugees after being displace. A mastadon...

Given the social reaction to the class, Shaper seems inadequately vitriolic. Shaper may be what they call theselves but others will say Flesh-crafter, Meat-smith, Bone-bender.

Some combats are world building. A sizeable band of goblins will attack any small force they encounter because that's what they do to intruders. Once it becomes clear that the adventurers are going through them like a hot knife through butter, they should change tactics. Maybe scatter, set...

Sounds like it's time for delayed action poison. Use cavalry or maybe variant manticores to volley at the PCs then flee in different directions, splitting up repeatedly. They continue firing arrows as they go. After 2 rounds of being peppered with poison arrows and everyone running in...

Back to the topic at hand, I really expected people to fight over Star Wars, but I guess the Leeloo arguement still worked to make the point. To recap So people thought Leeloo was a "unique" human and therefore a Super Hero movie, while I consider her "just" a Mondochiwan, which means the...

She was part of the decoy mission to "deliver" the stones. It makes no sense to protect the stones at the expense of a different unique resource. It just ups the risk of any one part being lost. Ergo she must be a non-unique component. Another "supreme being"would have been sent over, or...