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In orc society, you can speak about Fight Club. Some Fight Clubs are physical fitness training and group bonding experiences. (Some Fight Clubs are darker.)

Objection: LaNasa's actions, not his grandchildrens', are at issue here. If he has no grandchildren at present, future grandchildren by definition can have no role in current events.

A mammoth or mastodon on tundra would need as much room as an elephant does on savannah / semidesert, I would expect. At least (unlike Brontosaurus or Tyrannosaurus Rex) we have a decent "first guess" that could be close.

If you are a centipede or a millipede ... a lot.

Not exactly weather, but this past weekend there was a spectacular Aurora Borealis visible at night. Pictures from Upper Michigan are awesome and the effect was (barely) visible even under the city lights in Grand Rapids MI. And I'm further south in Indiana so I missed it. 😢 Source (not a...

I've seen a headline that said the miracle chemical is Soap. I wish it were that easy ! But I'll take something that is typical "be careful around chemicals" levels of caution when in use.

I miss Bloodied from 4e. Sometimes the monster's new attack was overwhelming (especially auras) but the announcement was always an indication that the group was making progress taking this monster down. I agree that 'cannon fodder' foes should not get an attack* at Bloodied but Lieutenants and...

The following text is clunky but might get the idea across: From your athletic training, you have gained a sprinting ability that matches the effect of the spell Expeditious Retreat. This is an innate ability, not a spell, for you. You must take a short rest afterwards or suffer +1 level of...

A monk with enough movement could step up to an enemy, attack and prone him, move away. The enemy will have a hard time chasing since he has to stand up first (expending half his movement) then try to follow. Once this cycle begins, the 'fleet-footed monk' trope becomes effective without...

i read a library copy, many many years ago, and the particular book may have been an older printing by then. My daughter had to buy a copy of BNW for a high school (same school as me) English class - her relatively-new printing did not have the formula or the paragraph it was in. (Which made...

I'm not aware of books being banned around me. I did attend a K-12 parochial system that did not put just anything in the grade school libraries. Books with 'heavy subject matter' landed in the high school library. Books that encouraged disrespectful or disruptive behavior / attitudes just...

Just finished reading the book (borrowed from library). As noted previously, one of TSR's biggest problems was kicking high-quality talent out the door, or treating them so badly (usually over money) that they left on their own. What could have been, if TSR had recognized what generated the...

If WotC puts a "Grognards had BadWrongFun" blanket disclaimer on the 5e material like they did for everything 3.5 and prior, I will conclude they are trying to drive me away. OTOH, if they can recognize that playstyles and materials have been a learning curve over time, I will be able to...

Sometimes. Depends on the situation: Hungry animals that are big enough will Swallow Whole or carry off downed PCs for food. Hungry but smaller animals want to chase the group off their new meal. Intelligent opponents protecting turf want the PCs to go away. But intelligent opponents...

Things to excise? Chaos Sorcerer. The Deck of Many Things is already known to be a campaign-destroying device because of overpowered / deathtrap results. Making a PC who is a mobile Deck (and unpredictable when it will erupt) should go into a "D&D Unchained"-like product at best, not into the...

I think so but I remember it as viewpoint off to the right a bit - trying to hide the true nature (bugs) behind a viewblock of "normal" body. Maybe there were two pictures in that MM entry? Or modified art used in subsequent reprints?

The 4e MM's Lamia, which was actually a swarm of beetles disguised as a humanoid (not a pseudo-sphinx hanging out in abandoned desert ruins). I created a DMPC, a "buggy Wizard" whose spells all somehow had insects involved in the fluff. His goal was to transmogrify himself into a Lamia, or a...

The link is not a link, alas. I would ask the DM if languages are a big thing, or if translation happens unobtrusively. If you need to, swap Sylvan for Elven so you can communicate with a narrow range of somebodies without becoming a time-eating experience.

Chaos Sorcerer. He casts spells on purpose and has components in a pouch, like normal. Sometimes (when that random effects table comes up) he starts calling on the magic, reaches into his component pouch ... and what is this he pulls out ?! The magic misfires because of the wrong material...

Sailor / Pirate alt-background. I don't pound people into the pavement unless they give me free stuff - but getting back the stuff I picked up is so much of a hassle that it isn't worth their time and trouble. (Only inexpensive easily-replaceable stuff attracts my sticky fingers. Maybe...