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But when the MM tries to fit demons and devils into a larger mythical history you don't want that. I don't want my PH to tell me that dwarves are a former slave race to giants - that sounds like the kind of racial baggage that would go against the world building I do. Saying "they live in...

Hmm. Kobolds are always listed as tunneling creatures. Do they use tools for this? Or their claws? Or domesticated thoqquas?

Rolled up characters last night. It's my first attempt at a sandbox game, so we'll see how that goes. Fortunately, most of the monsters I need are in the released pdfs.

I've got a player taking the Observant feat. One of the lines is: "You have a +5 bonus to your passive Wisdom (Perception) and passive Intelligence (Investigation) scores." Now, passive Perception gets mentioned all over the place, but passive Investigation? Is this just for when the DM has a...

A spell that gives you an armor class as if you were wearing a certain kind of armor is in keeping with the nature of spells in traditional D&D. A spell that gives you an armor class based solely on the numeric value of your current armor class, circumstances included, doesn't seem to model the...

I've been saying this since we saw the first monster guidelines. I wonder if some math-oriented ENWorlder with time on his hands wants to take a crack at this?

If I didn't know better I'd swear you were being sarcastic here.

How dare you bring that up again?! /ragequitragequit

It seems to me that the DMG (or ENworlders if the DMG fails us) could make a package of simple "house rules" for encouraging multi-classing, as opposed to the current rules which seem to discourage it somewhat.

I submit that, while in the real world "evil" is a matter of perspective and philosophy, in classic D&D evil was a real, physical (well, metaphysical) thing that could be detected, dispelled, smote, and suddenly visited on someone if you put the right helmet on them. So conceiving of a creature...

There are two issues here. One issue is - is it "all right" to kill a child if that child is a threat to your life? The second issue is - should a publishing company be creating fictional monsters for a game that are dangerous children to be slain? These issues are very separate.

As I think on it, this anecdote would date to about 1989. Dark Sun is from 1991. So I'm forced to assume that Dark Sun drew it's inspiration from my club.

In my college D&D club there were so many grey elf PCs that the DMs all decided that Thri-Kreen had an abiding racial hatred for them. I saw a grey elf player brutally murdered by the wandering monster table - a thri-kreen just hopped by one day, perforated the character and hopped away.

Unfortunately, again, we have the "here's the infant form of a sentient race - go kill them" issue.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/137416-D-D-5th-Edition-Monster-Manual-Manticore-Revealed I don't see anyone else bringing this up...

Depends on how cuddly your party is.

This is one of those rules where I want to ask a game designer why they made it work that way. Maybe there's a reason we're not considering. (Maybe it's a bad reason.)

If we want to get technical, get your companion to sign a formal alliance agreement. Perhaps open an embassy.

Question for you: I understand the Unicorn is a relatively low-CR Legendary monster. How does it compare to a monster of near-equal HP? Does it have a higher CR?

This seems to be another one of those arguments, where no one you're actually arguing with is actually listening to you. On either side. They already know what you think, and you're just wrong. You could just say "I disagree" and go on.