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To be fair, he is much more human than Galadriel.

For my part, I would be happy to see a thriving "no book spoilers" thread here. But I wouldn't participate in it, since I'm as book-spoiled as they come.

Do you know which MERP source contained this? Most of the ringwraiths were given more than one name in MERP, but I haven't seen Ar-Pharazôn identified with any of them. To my knowledge the three Númenorean ringwraiths in MERP lore are Tindamul/Êr-Mûrazôr (the Witch-king), Herundil/Akhôrahil, and...

I think it's likely that several of the dwarf-lords will remain relatively indistinguishable from one another (dwarves distinguishable only by their names being a long-entrenched Tolkienian tradition; only a few of the dwarves in "The Hobbit" have personalities). But the nine humans, I think...

I like the show overall but I do wish the showrunners had chosen to do, say, two or three seasons for the 1600s–early 1700s period, followed by a single huge time jump and then two or three seasons for the end of the age. (Annatar's arrival could be condensed into the 1600s or dealt with...

They're both very reliable. I haven't read anything by Johnston, but her non-IP "young adult" novels are well regarded, and she knows her way around IP, having written four Star Wars novels. Johnson (no t) is the big news, in my opinion. She has five published Forgotten Realms novels under her...

Assuming that the rules on rituals remain basically the same as in 5e (apart from opening them up to every caster), it’s slightly more complicated than that, because you’ll need ten minutes of ritualing before the spell kicks in, and the animals you might be interested in having a conversation...

Princes of the Apocalypse is a great sandbox adventure. It’s my favorite of the 5e adventure paths I’ve played or run. It does require a lot of work from the DM to run, however, partly because the adventure deliberately leaves a lot of gaps for you to fill in, and partly because the book itself...

Perhaps. But WotC has no idea how to design and conduct a survey, so who knows? Proof positive: the “rate each spell individually” survey from a while back listed each spell in alphabetical order, in the same order for every respondent. In a very long survey like that one, where respondents...

Parts of FR outside the Sword Coast are mentioned in every 5e hardcover adventure path set in the Sword Coast—or at least almost every one. The only one I’m not sure about is Rime of the Frostmaiden. But maybe by “mention” you really mean “take place in”?

Doomspace was supposed to be Athaspace until late in the development process. That much is clear. I can see only two plausible reasons for this: (1) WotC has plans for Dark Sun, and someone at WotC decided that the presentation of Athaspace in the Spelljammer set doesn’t match the vision they...

I did buy it and haven't read through the whole thing yet. I clicked "bought, no like" but it's certainly more complicated than that! I like a lot of it, but I think what's not there is pretty sorely missing, decent ship-to-ship combat rules most of all. And I'm still flabbergasted that they...

You don’t let PCs try to investigate something unless they’re proficient? Or persuade someone? Is it just nope? Or maybe you use passive for all nonproficient? Or do you mean if someone nonproficient in Persuasion tries to persuade someone, you just call that a Charisma check? Genuinely curious.

I guess I do think it has at least something to do with the fact that I call for knowledge checks to see whether PCs know lore; and I do so when the PCs have been exposed to something lore-related that hasn't come up yet in the campaign. Maybe call them "DM-prompted ability checks" (to avoid...

I do know that. I'm describing a situation where the ability check DC is (say) 25, but the PC can't get up to a 25 result with a nat 20 + mods, because their mods are +4 or less. I think everyone agrees that in this situation, if the DM calls for this ability check then under 2014 RAW it would...

Sorry—are you accusing me of not reading the rules?

I wasn't saying anything here about whether DMs are permitted to do what you're describing (that is, to choose not to call a roll on the basis of proficiency). I misunderstood you, if that's what you were talking about. Here's what I'm talking about: A PC wants to attempt a very hard task (DC...

Thanks for clarifying.

Is there something in RAW—anything, anywhere—that actually states this? Or is this just your interpretation of the passages I quoted? Sincere question; maybe I missed something. If not, I’d like to know on what basis you think that “we think it’s impossible for that PC” is always going to line...

I've just pored over the relevant sections of the 5e PHB and DMG with a fine-tooth comb. Let me preface this by saying: no one is DMing the game wrong. My argument is only about RAW, and is intended to rebut the several folks who are saying that RAW forbid an ability check when a PC's stats are...