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I think it depends what we're trying to describe. The Nephilim are a race of humans with angelic ancestry (like Aasimar). "Children of the gods" is a much wider concept that doesn't necessarily entail any mortal parentage.

Empyreans seems like a strange choice of name for children of the gods of any plane. It makes some sense when limited to children of celestial gods, but the word itself suggests origination in the realm of spiritual fire, which I would equate to the Positive Plane. Now, in my homebrew cosmology...

For the edition of D&D I play (5.0), I don't distinguish between monsters and NPCs. I have "encounters". Whether the encountered creature(s) will attack or talk first depends on a few factors: If their Int <5 and they aren't surprised, they attack. If their Int =5 or greater and the party is...

Then it isn't slavery.

I'm just going to leave this here:

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When I have an NPC lie to the party, I treat it the same as with any other hidden information in the game. Like, if the party is walking up to a hidden trap, do I just tell the players it's a normal hallway with nothing unusual to see, so I can spring it on them? No, that would be a gotcha, so I...

My first character was Albion, a human paladin, whom I made in 1981 or shortly thereafter. I named him after the giant son of Neptune whom I read about in Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall, a children's history of England. He was like a representation of my higher self, at least 6 feet tall...

I’m not aware of rituals as a thing in AD&D. (Not that they might not exist, but maybe I’m just not familiar with the particular publication you’re thinking of.) Where are you finding that? As for why these are spells, because they let you do things you can’t normally do and because there’s no...

Like it says in the spell, it's to replace a lost or damaged holy (or unholy) symbol or create a backup, so the cleric doesn't have to go back to town to buy a new one if the one they bought at first level gets destroyed somehow. Of course, the cleric could always buy a backup ahead of time, but...

What do you mean by "having to"? This seems to imply an obligation to be altruistic. Where does that come from? And how do you reconcile that with the service being voluntary? You seem to be contradicting yourself. No one is forcing you to be good.

Subservience entails being prepared to obey others unquestioningly. Having concern for other people doesn't entail following orders from them or anyone else. Serving others is not slavery if you are neither owned as property nor forced to serve but are performing the service voluntarily.

I realize it's my own rigidity that's creating the issue here, but it's a matter of aesthetic preference. The navigation check in my game isn't about knowing which way to go. It assumes you've chosen the direction that's desirable to you, and it's a test of whether you succeed in going that way...

Thanks, I'll see if I can make something like this work for me. The complicating factor is I resolve overland travel in roughly half-day turns which is also the distance I make one hex, so the navigation check always covers that half day of travel into an adjacent hex, failure meaning it's not...

Yep, it's frequently not necessary. If the party's got a good navigator or they're traveling through easy terrain, they just get where they're going. There's only a roll sometimes if the terrain is more difficult.

I'm not sure I know what a sliding failure scale is. Do you mean something like degrees of failure? I think there's something like that in the 5.0 DMG, but I don't use it because it's sort of abstract, and I like to map things out hex by hex.

I roll monster surprise checks in the open because, at that point, it's been determined an encounter is going to happen, and I'm just checking to see who in the party might be surprised. One roll I've been in the habit of hiding is a terrain roll against the party navigator's passive Survival...

Why would I have (or want) to tell the players how to react in any case? What you’re describing is just another way of telling them about the environment. They still get to decide how the PCs react.

This is not true. Muscular neutrals, like neutrals in general, can be unopposed to the tenets of both good and evil, assisting and using the tactics of either as they see fit to maintain balance between the two. It's understood that good and evil is a dichotomy. Good is associated with...

I know you're looking for D&D-specific demons, but this is where I'd go for something like this: List of theological demons - Wikipedia