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I'm not a lawyer... but wow, some of the statements made in this thread by a current EGG contractor sound like the exact kind of evidence a lawyer would want to gather to establish a pattern of workplace hostility. There's no way I'll feel good about myself if I don't document those posts before...

That's all true in the rules as they are currently written. On the other hand, it's easy to imagine house rules that say certain environmental effects deal HD damage (for lack of a better term) instead of dealing hp damage or causing levels of exhaustion. With that one small change, HD...

Edit: I had a paraphrased "Green Eggs and Ham" quote about 4e here, but I quickly realized readers who aren't familiar with "Green Eggs and Ham" might assume I was edition warring, so I thought better of it.

It seems a poster has already forked some spell-related conversation from the last few pages of this thread into a new thread about bothersome casters/spells. That sounds like a logical place to talk about curated spell lists and other house rules to help curtail the overuse of bothersome...

Would anyone like to start a new thread for talking about curated spell lists and other spellcaster mods? Future me might have trouble finding that conversation if it's buried on page thirty-something in a thread about exploration.

I doubt the rules changes in 1D&D will invalidate existing 3pp material or otherwise disrupt the 3pp ecosystem. Importing 3pp material into a game powered by a 5e clone plus house rules is usually pretty easy, and 1D&D is essentially just a 5e clone plus house rules. On a smaller scale, I will...

I would contend that both narrative scenarios and mini-games should play a role in exploration. Narrative scenarios based on DM adjudication are great ways for PCs to explore discrete parts of the world they can interact with over short time scales. Traps and hazards can be resolved in terms of...

Regarding spells and exploration: I found spells that mitigated exploration-related risks more fun before spontaneous casting became the default method of casting spells. In systems where you have to memorize or prepare your spells in advance, exploration actually forces spellcasters to make...

You monster! A TPK? Okay, it happens. But this. No, sir. No.

Among other things, Bahamut, a.k.a. Paladine, a.k.a. Fizban, is the creator of the first dragonborn species mentioned in any D&D product; the fictional author of "Fizban's Treasury of Dragons;" and the twin brother of Tiamat. He's also one of the most prominent gods of Krynn, and he temporarily...

Nebelun is a gnomish lesser god from the setting-agnostic sourcebook, "Monster Mythology," a feminine aspect of whom is mentioned in "Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes." Gond is Nebelun's stand-in the Forgotten Realms setting.

Does the Raven Queen count as iconic these days? I do think she's one of the more interesting D&D death deities (alliteration for the win!), although she probably loses out to Orcus if we're counting him as a deity.

I did a quick internet search for adventures featuring Maglubiyet and didn't find any. I did, however, discover that Maglubiyet is the Turkish word for "defeat" (as in, "failure to win"). As a result, I have changed my stance: Maglubiyet is one of the best names for any deity in D&D. Also, the...

I mostly agree. Maglubiyet has a terrible name, probably tied for second worst name of any D&D deity (behind Blibdoolpoolp). And he's definitely second-tier to Gruumsh. But isn't Kurtulmak equally a step-down in prominence from Garl Glittergold? Kurtulmak's only role in D&D mythology is getting...

Would you say that Maglubiyet should also be included, given his eternal war against Gruumsh and the orcs?

Interesting choice. Does Ka make an appearance anywhere outside the Mystara setting?

Let's say you're making a world-agnostic pantheon of deities, and you want to include all the big name deities of D&D. What deities would you include in that pantheon? If I had to answer my own question, I'd probably start with the patron deities of the five longest-running playable nonhuman...

Just to be contrary, I'm going to iterate the letter and call it 5f.

I'm inclined to agree with your overall premise that FR is not the "default" setting for 5e. I was merely observing that plenty of FR books invalidate past lore and insert a bunch of new stuff (usually by killing off a couple gods and blowing up half the world... again). So the fact the Volo's...

I see what you did there.