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How do you go about designing NPCs above 20th level, or at least above a challenge level of 20, in 5E? For example, Acererak will apparently be a challenge level 25 NPC. Other NPCs from D&D's past stories have been that high or higher. How do you go about about designing such an NPC?

1. The Major is female in portrayal. 2. The Puppet Master is male in portrayal. 3. The Puppet aster expressly is motivated to reproduce, or at least to over come its inability to do so. 4. The Puppet Master essentially overcomes her resistance, functionally coercing the Major into merging with...

This is a potentially controversial, unhappy, subject. But it is something that has been playing at my mind. Have you ever considered that Ghost in the Shell is a peculiar kind of rape fantasy; the Puppet Master rapes and effectively impregnates the Major.

Which of the "classic" modules could make a suitable sequel to CoS? I believe most of them were for low level characters, while at the end of CoS the characters will be the neighborhood of 10th level.

I am not familiar with "Night of the Walking Dead" or "Horror's Harvest," please spoil them for me.

What other "classic" Ravenloft modules or material would you like to see revisited? House on Gryphon Hill is not bad, it is just not as good as the original Ravenloft module. Most of the other modules from the Ravenloft line were rather mediocre, few stand out as memorable. But what do you think?

For one thing, those laws (similar laws do exist in the USA, Canada and elsewhere) do not protect hobbies and people following a hobby. For another, it has to be proven that a company took formal action against an employee because of one of the things listed, when it would be easy for the...

Yes, it is great - I will follow his blog. I intend to hack the book pretty heavily.

I always thought Adams did that in an effort to get out of jury duty and it backfired on her, even if it let her get away later. In any case, people's personal lives cropping up at work can be difficult, even assuming it is something as simple as taking the kids to a baseball game, because it...

I took it that the tiger was for dealing with human servants of vampires, similar to how Strahd has a chamberlain, albeit that chamberlain is an elf. Strahd also has an accountant - one of my favorite touches in the book - for the tiger to eat. And a tiger will help Van Richten... negotiate with...

If someone strips mostly naked, paints themselves in team colors and goes to a game, gets their photo taken... then it probably does, no matter who they usually behave at work. Further, work is a bloody sport, people will seek any advantage they can, exploit anything they can. In any case...

Well, like Umbran mentioned above, imagine having to explain to your boss or human resources about these photos of you in cosplay and dealing with that at all. Or you have scheduled to go to some convention on the weekend and now you've got a work assignment for the same weekend. Or a coworker...

That is exactly what I am talking about - even having to explain such a thing at work would be problematic.

Have your gaming hobbies ever been an issue at work? There are a lot of ways online activity can cost someone a job and some of them are obvious. For example, don't rag on your boss on Facebook. On the other hand, however, sometime irrelevant activities can cost someone a job or at least...

Thanks. Edit: This sounds like the Amber Temple, from Curse of Strahd. "... "they were going up into the icy mountains, and this temple under a mountain that's basically become a repository of evil. There was this sect of good-aligned wizards and paladins who were keeping this temple, and all...

Greg?

Where can I find a WotC forth coming production schedule?

Actually, it occurred to me today "What if the PCs stayed in Barovia?' What if they moved into Castle Ravenloft and remodeled the place (throw out the dead things, gave it a paint job, added some tasteful throw pillows) and kept a watch on the crypt for the possible return of Strahd (so they...

Not to thread crap, but in terms of the time... does it matter? Really, four years, 40 years, 400 years, why does it matter in a fiction game setting where everything can be adjusted and changed with the wave of a hand. This is not a history test where we have to know what year the German's...

I am reading through CoS now and I think Post Strahd should, or at least could, focus on the Amber Temple. It might serve as a way to deal with other domains or just to keep Strahd from returning.