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Medium magic probably fits best. Magic is a part of life, but not a daily part (usually). In light of the Four Curses, magic is important for the people protecting both their homes and their minds, but if things are going well this is a mostly invisible process, with the possible exception of...

I am admittedly speaking from my personal ideal rather than from how it usually plays out.

I am, if I’m being honest, not that creative. Give me a blank slate to write on and I’ll get nowhere. Give me something half-written and I’ll spend hours of head-time filling in the blanks.

It’s a question of atmosphere. Fighting people who went down the wrong path and fighting outgrowths of the fundamental wrongness of the universe should, if done properly, feel like incredibly different experiences.

There’s plenty of reasons for devils to go to war on the material plane. Safe and happy people are less likely to make deals, while people fearing for their lives, ground down by tragedy, or separated from their support structure won’t be as inclined to thing through that decision as...

Each text of the Bible was written for specific purposes. Just because some topic is only briefly mentioned, it doesn’t follow that it was all they believed about that topic.

A mad oracle says things like “our fates are decided by the roll or dice!” or “our lives are but a game to the gods.”

While making a plan, a character describes a possible failure state as “rocks fall, everyone dies.”

Hmm...cautiously interested.

I’ll go with the 5e version of Great Wheel. For one, especially with Fizbang’s, it emphasizes that “material plane” does not mean “mundane plane”. The Prime Material is an intensely magical place as befitting where the forces of the multiverse come together. It keeps the Fewild and Shadowfell...

There’s been some points about how DMs can do what they want and how not everything has to be gray, which I agree with but I also think gnolls deserve a more active defense of what makes them awesome villains. 5E gnolls are h*cking metal and Yeenogu has become my favorite demon lord based on...

That was, admittedly, kind of funny. But in my defense beholder where conceived some time before reality became a bad Political Cartoon series. Tired now, I’ll say more tomorrow if I have anything to say.

Frankly, I can look at the news and confidently say that inhuman evil does tend to be more deep, complex, and-were the latter in a story rather than real life-narratively satisfying than human evil. The point were WotC looks to recent headlines for the motivations of Beholders and demon lords is...

Shadowfell entities like sorrowsworn are also often listed as monstrosities, meaning they aren’t considered “extraplanar” by the rules like fey are.

Preventing a kingdom from becoming a Demiplane of Dread.

Counter possibility: the peasants know they can’t be too picky about who stands next to them on the barricades when the monsters come.

Jubilate is mildly magiteck-y, so Vitalia its capital has many magic items in circulation. There aren’t many dedicated shops for them though, if you want a magic item you generally have to look for it in the special inventory of vendors of the normal version of those items, so enchanted weapons...

Novelty itself is fine, what I dislike is people declaring something a clone or ripoff of another work just because it shares some surface elements.

The 1E and 2E monster manuals I have make no mention of skeletons and zombies coming from any source other than spellcasters intentionally raising them, and for the most part spear to be just “robots” that won’t do anything outside of their command. It may have been different in the more of...