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Terrors of the Dead Lands 3.5 Ashen: An ashen is a defiler that died consumed by life energy kept for too long without discharging. The bliss of life energy coursing through one’s body proves too addictive to some defilers with low self-control. They do not fight the addiction hard, letting it...

I was happy with that when they did it and when Pathfinder did the same thing with further refinements for the same CR. I was quite happy, for instance, with pathfinder changing the CR 3 allip to wisdom damage instead of drain at that CR. I also liked buffing the toughness of demons as physical...

? 3e (and similarly 5e) PCs have max hp at 1st level unlike 0D&D, Basic, or AD&D. Basic and OD&D also had smaller PC HD. 3e (and similarly 5e) monsters have con bonuses (and in 3e potential toughness feat, or construct/ooze bonus hp) and skeletons and zombies in 3e have d12 HD unlike 0D&D...

I only got Planescape stuff way after the 2e era (Greyhawk and Ravenloft were my 2e foci in the 90s) but I borrowed MC8 from a friend when he got it when it came out and I loved the lore development for the fiends and the Blood War. 1e had fun demon lords and archdevils with very cool art, but...

So I am playing in an online weekly game that has been going on for about a year. In Friday's game an NPC from a group who are asking for our help and discretion casually outed me as a sorcerer to the rest of the party thinking everybody already knew and were cool with it. It is a secret I have...

It was 2e but earlier than Planescape and generally earlier era 2e. The 2e Monstrous Compendium Appendix 8 came out in January 1991, predating Planescape by three years. 2e came out in 89 so two years into 2e's eleven year run.

I would disagree. :) Balors in the 5e 13 MM are "Figures of ancient and terrible evil, balors rule as generals over demonic armies, yearning to seize power while destroying any creatures that oppose them[/B]." while "Vrocks are dull-witted, capricious fiends that live only to create pain and...

Terrors of Athas 3.5 Defiled: The defiled are plants that have been almost destroyed thanks to the actions of a defiler drawing in plant energy to cast their spells. For unknown reasons, the plant survives the attack and becomes undead. Defiled Bloodgrass: ? Defiled Bloodgrass, Patch of...

The unclear option in 5e commune is for things outside the contacted deity or divine proxy's knowledge. If y/n would be misleading or contrary to the deity's interests there can be a short phrase instead of a yes no. The spell will never generate false answers, but it can fail to answer...

Reviews can be great, when they exist. :) A lot of PDFs I check out don’t have any.

But not “I want to use a demon here, what are the CR appropriate demons again?”

Also the commune and divination spells in various D&D editions often have a cryptic answer option which makes them less absolute answers if the spell answers that way.

I give myself a monthly hobby budget and generally stick with it. I have a ton of things I am interested in and none I really consider must gets. So I generally do a little gut check on how interesting something is to me compared to its price and I often check out sales and bundles for good...

4e uses attack rolls for all things that use saves in other D&D and so using fumbles there it is fairly even application across the board.

In my Freeport D&D pirate game for the city history I had a group of casters known as the Cerulean Circle who specialized in being sea witch ship mages who gave an edge to Freeport ships (pirate, privateer, and mercantile), either enhancing them or accompanying them, and were a factor in making...

Crits show competence with occasional wild card spectacular competence, on both sides. Fumbles show occasional wild card incompetence on both sides. If you want to show competent warriors fighting dangerous foes you use crits only. If you want fog of war friendly fire mishaps you use fumbles...

I do like the idea of a sea god church blessing figureheads so the ship itself has magic resistance. Older editions had things like the permanent Druidic ironwood spell.

Crits are both a reward and a punishment in themself. You inflict them but they also are inflicted upon you. Not including fumbles is just a style preference choice, not a double standard.

I don’t think that would help until you max them out at +5s and so on. The incentive would still be to max out the core items where you can. So getting a +2 weapon quickly instead of a +1 weapon and something quirky.