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Coating weapons in substances to make them more deadly has been done since we had weapons, it's called poison. Fire is just a bit more exciting. It's the other way around, it was in the game because it's the sort of getting-creative-with-their-environment thing that players want to do. BG3...

Is it supposed to not be fun? Do you mean it as a threat of "never do anything creative that might be effective or I'll just turn around and have the NPCs do it to you even harder next encounter"? Is that how your NPCs operate - whenever one of them dies to a creative tactic by the PCs their...

The issue with this is that you're either at the mercy of how descriptive your DM is, or you're constantly having to slow down play asking for extra details of what is and isn't in the scene. As a note, Baldur's Gate 3 handles things like the flaming sword very neatly. If you're near a fire...

I think the idea is that sometimes the DM who tells players to "get creative" with their martial characters will then also be the DM who shuts them down every time they try to suggest anything creative that has the slightest mechanical benefit.

How about a "monsters from the id" take on deities. When a god is at rest or slumbering their subconscious is still active, acting out their darkest or deepest desires in dreams. Sometimes this subconscious can reach out psionically, seeking receptive beings to carry out its wishes. This patron...

Wow, the start-up costs on those places must be insane. How long does it take them to pull back into the black, half a century?

Certainly should be playable, but if you're looking for something that references the city, note that only BG1 spends any time there. I'm playing in a DiA campaign but haven't read the book. It has a decent city map and a few fleshed-out characters, but only a small fraction of the game takes...

It is known only as the Crusade. It started small, just a single church animated by the zeal of its congregation, but as it strides the wastes toward new towns and cities, those that it converts are assimilated into its structure and it continues on its way. Visually it is a little mind-bending...

The intensity doesn't change, but your options increase significantly. You have more directions you can move in, and fewer creatures you'd need to break line of sight with to remove the penalties.

Yeah, Frightened in particular should be treated as separate individual effects, since it isn't just a generalised status effect, it's linked to the creature that caused the effect and gives the targets limitations specifically related to that creature - so if someone's frightened of two...

Never tell me the consequences.

All of which are dwarfed by the arguments about trying to knock it prone.

Reminds me of the description of the decor in The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe: "Very little expense had been spared to give the impression that no expense had been spared."

That seems like it would depend upon the terms of the licence, which is presumably between Free League and the Tolkien estate and not with WotC. Since DDB is a live service, it's entirely possible that an expired licence would require them to no longer host any of the content.

Then realising that you're now committed to doing that voice for four hours a week for the next couple of years.

That paragraph feels like it should end with One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them

But, conversely, cheaper and more capable technology with ever more experienced professionals in the industry. That's not a genre that has any excuses, big monster movies have always used the available technology to up the spectacle. But yeah, you can see a clear difference between the...

Truly a living fossil.

It was in a later supplement, Complete Arcane.

This was essentially how the original 3.5e Warlock worked. They knew a very limited number of spells granted by their invocations, and none of the spells used slots - typically they were either at-will, continuous-effect or once-per-day depending upon type and power level. I only played a...