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Magic Monkeys, Disenchanters, Rust Monsters and Gray Ooze are the bane of magic-wielding adventurers - at least in older editions. Thieves and allowing PCs to sell off items for other (non-magic) things - castles, boats, titles, favors, etc. also works. Magic Monkey

I've used Zoom, Teams and Webex for work, Discord, Roll20 and Steam's Friend chat (no video, but there are the likes of Tabletop Simulator, Fantasy Grounds and the like for handling battlemaps and such) at home. Out of them all, I would say Discord has been the one I would prefer to use for...

I’d love to run B4 - The Lost City, preferrably the GG version, either as 5e or with OSE. Somehow following it up with Pharaoh, if not the whole Desert of Desolation series. I’ve also been writing up several campaign worlds journal style, (I’m up to 5, each in an 120 page journal) and I’d like...

Monsters don't have to be statted out as Solos to work, but it makes them a bit more tactical and everyone has to pay closer attention when it has access to legendary actions. Without the solo abilities, as you've shown it acts less often but can hit with devastating attacks when it does...

I kinda like the BEMCI "tier" code best, though I agree those in a series should have some prefix that groups them" Does Piazo's AP line use these sort of classifations? I seem to recall that like Rise of the Runelords might have.

The letters weren't random, though they may not have been obvious. The ones I remember were B - "Basic" C - "Competition/Tournament" CM - "Companion" D - "Drow/Depths" DA - "Dave Arneson" EX - "Extension" G - "Giant" GA - "General Adventure" HHQ - "Head to Head Quest (i.e., 1 player, 1 DM)" I...

Probably two 1st and a 2nd. Mainly for the 1st in case Shield is needed, and 2nd lets me cast Invisibility.

Sadly, none of them. Though I am curious about the starter set, at least to see the final contents. I love starter sets, and I rarely pass on them. But like the Rick/Morty and Stranger Things starters, I expect to end up passing on this one.

An Elminster who gets fed up with Thay and deposes Szass Tam and goes “mother of dragons” on the cities of Thay.

Been a while since I played 1E (or 2E). I always went with the higher racial limits using UA's rules for 1E and using "slow advancement" for 2E characters after the hit the base level limits. Psionics - unless I was using Dark Sun are right out. By the way, I mostly play/DM 5E these days and...

It had several innovations for it's time A strong, central villian whose history and motivations were mapped out rather than being "just a stat block" with at best a name attached. A villain who moves and reacts to the player's action rather than remain in one static spot A method of...

For some reason, the whole discussion in the first post didn't click with me until just now. That's a weird rule interaction and not something I'd let a player end up arguing out of having Disadvantage to attack/be attacked. Maybe "You can't have advantage to hit a target you can't detect...

I think Piazo is position that they would initially take the lead, likely with Kobold Press in 2nd place. I don't follow any influencers so that's harder to see with my crystal ball. I imagine though that the big ones (Critical Role?) would see a noticeable drop, but would continue since...

Yeah, if WotC/Hasbro pockets D&D, the genie's out of the bottle. It's either play with what you got, buy old material off e-bay or see other companies take up the slack with OGL/CC versions of D&D adjacent clones and/or supplements. Pathfinder, A5E, ToV, Shadowdark and all the others will fill...

As for using Theater of the Mind, that's probably best handled when "blind attacking" to make the attack at disadvantage and add an additional AC bonus to the target (around +2 or so, or maybe add the target's PB to AC) to represent not knowing the physical location of the target.

...or you cast a spell with Somatic components in armor or clothing that inflicts Disadvantage to Stealth checks. :D

Yes, I know you're talking about 5E, but where did wanting the billion come from? An article, stock report?

I prefer the one roll, but individuals may have a better or worse chance depending on the primary means of Perception (i.e., hounds having Advantage when using smell, Eagles have advantage when using sight, or Bats relying on sound, etc.). Active roll of Stealth vs. passive Perception (+5 if...

I vaguely remember in 4E they were trying to push D&D to a $50m property, but I haven't heard anything about expecting a billion out of them - that seems excessively unrealistic. Do you have a source for this?