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Just found a good one from an old issue of Dragon Magazine. According to The Ecology of the Purple Worm, a purple worm that is sufficiently harmed will excrete a smelly substance from a gland that warns others of its kind to stay away and to mark a place as dangerous. Even young purple worms...

The harengon barbarian, plasmoid fighter, halfling cleric, and their satyr companion all ended up reconvening with each other at a dryad's tree and were requested to go deal with an ettercap. The monster has both been eating smaller fey and has also kidnapped a halfling tinkerer. The group...

Legends of Vox Machina Episodes 1-3 Q&A (taken from the previously-recorded live watch party): Topics include concept art for the characters' designs in the show, making certain NPCs more prominent, the challenge of abridging hours and hours of content into a show with 30 min episodes, an...

Personally I have used alignment before as a basis for what creatures would be more likely to form alliances, what monsters a creature would choose as minions, and what monsters might be forced into servitude but potentially willing to rebel against their masters. For example, mummies are...

I agree. That's why, even though I also like Alignment, I am glad it's not tied to PC rules anymore. I want it for monsters and world building inspiration, not to tell players they can't be a Chaotic Good (or even Chaotic Evil) Paladin or a Lawful Barbarian. I will say I'd like monsters...

I'm curious if there's a significant correlation between disliking Alignment and having a lot of experience as a player, as well as liking Alignment and most often being a DM. I'd expect this would be the case, especially for people who played pre-4E editions where Alignment had more of a...

I like alignment as a DM as it informs a lot about the planes (plus I really like focusing on Law vs Chaos instead of Good vs Evil), but I'm also glad 4E got rid of Alignment as a prerequisite for playing a class and glad/surprised 5E did as well. As a rule I hate getting in the way of player...

I wish Moorcock's stuff was more well known. By D&D fans, at the very least, considering how much of D&D was inspired by Moorcock (like the sword Blackrazor, or the Hexblade subclass, or the concepts of Law and Chaos, etc).

Another reason I use alignment is because I really like Michael Moorcock's stuff, which was a big influence on early D&D and focuses on a war between Law and Chaos where the ultimate embodiments of either force are inimical to life and existence. Notes for the original Known World (later known...

Here's the Forgotten Realms Wiki entry on it: Nachtur

Honestly, it's not unfair to say that at least some of the characters at the start don't have much depth or feel generic. Even in interviews for the show some of the actors have admitted that the characters they've made for Campaigns 2 and 3 of Critical Role have a lot more background planned...

Even if everybody has their own take on alignment, I still enjoy using my own take as a guideline for roleplaying both my own PCs and NPCs. I also found that it helped me gain an interest in looking at real world ideologies that seem to exhibit characteristics of what I consider an alignment to...

I mostly use it for grand scale cosmic conflicts and creatures of the Outer Planes. For mortal NPCs I use it as a guideline. For PCs I let the players say whatever they want but have an idea of what I consider their "real" alignment in my head. If I ever base any effects on this "real" alignment...

That interview with Matt Mercer linked a few posts back seems to have been recorded before the show became available, and he'd already pegged Scanlan as potentially being the most polarizing character (at least early on, though he also notes the character develops later in the story).

I assume the original idea was that it would be unusual for the gnome of all characters to be the ladies' man, especially in a party alongside Percy and Vax. It gets much more of a payoff later.

Since Law and Chaos came up, I figure this may interest someone: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1F1kEbL4pZk9AJjzCgoOr8DhKyyZ4vOts The section on "The Prime Alignments" describes "High Law" and "High Chaos" thusly:

Since Scanlan has been a major point of discussion I thought I'd note that his songs TLoVM are new compositions, whereas in the original CR show his bardic talents were more along the lines of short parodies of famous songs he did while using Bardic Inspiration. “Everything is awesome...

It was a Changeling. From looking it up, apparently the Tavern Keeper was the result of both an initial poll and a followup livestream that solicited suggestions from the audience.

Well, the first part of the Campaign One stream heavily featured WotC IP (mind flayers and such) and didn't have that much to do with the rest of the overall campaign, so it's easy to see why it was skipped.