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Quaggoth, I choose you!

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking -- the regional effect descriptions include the area they cover, so do you mean the size of the region the dragon is the major power in? If that's it, I'd have it vary from dragon to dragon. For a white dragon, a hunting ground consisting of everything...

That sounds like an epic-scale campaign seed right there: Long ago, the aboleths seized a portion of the Elemental Plane of Water as their domain and refuge. All who do not worship them hate and fear them -- and many of those who do worship them, also hate and fear them -- but none have been...

I have the vague sense that there used to be more monsters associated with aboleths, like the skum (who didn't make it into the 5e MM). Flipping through old books, though, it looks like grimlocks have been working for/with mind-flayers for a while. 1e and 3e give them a chance of being led by...

That's an intriguing idea. Incense for area effects, tobacco for effects that only work on one person? I'd think that either one pinch of incense or one puff of a pipe would be enough to have a magical effect, or magical smoke is better suited to effects that last a while/are gradual than...

(Note: I'm adding more to this post as I notice/remember them.) We can start in this thread, perhaps? Here's a few: Chimeras were created by Demogorgon Chuul were/are servants of the aboleth Efreet tried to enslave the azers, failed, tried again with the salamanders, and succeeded Flumphs...

My father ran red-box D&D adventures for me, one-on-one. Though I did later find out that part of the reason is that my mother was suspicious of the game.

Myconids! I strongly suspect these guys started out as a joke about psychedelic mushrooms, but the 5e art is majestically unearthly.

If I were playing in your campaign, I'd totally want to see an ice-cave dungeon: Old fortifications and supply caches from the Black Legion's day could be good dungeons, too. Some are being reclaimed by nature, (some should be reclaimed by nature...), some have been taken over by humans or...

Looks like the kobolds have been putting in a lot of time at the gym!

And Claudio Pozas has already illustrated them:

The domain side of Bloodright is what really grabbed me. Have you found that it adapts well to other editions?

What about druids? 2e's take on them is very much "specialty priests of nature."

Those are some great pictures. I first heard about Derinkuyu a now-shockingly-long time ago, via a Dragon magazine article by Allen Varney -- in issue #201 if you have it, or you can read the text here on Varney's site. Either way, I recommend it for more about the history and atmosphere of the...

Come to think of it, I vaguely recall somebody pairing up races as good/evil counterparts, with gnomes and kobolds as one such pair. Does anybody know what I'm thinking of and/or have more of the list?

In looking for places to fit gnomes and halflings into my setting-in-progress, I've gradually concluded that the little guys just don't have as strong a hook as other races. Gnomes seem to keep getting reinterpreted (if largely now around the roles of trickster and gadgeteer) while halflings...

I'd love to see more threads about worldbuilding/narrative/etc., and not just because I personally feel that I have more to contribute in those areas than in rules discussions. Come to think of it, there are some things I've been chewing on lately that might be worth starting threads for...

My first reaction was to allow rage-smiting but not laying on hands. But Jer makes a very good point.