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Nope. Says nothing about how long they last. You might toss it when entering a town, (I'm sure most common folk would not take kindly to you owning a shield made of goblin hide) but there's nothing that indicates it's any more frail than other items.

So, seeing that people are discussing what spells can actually use lint, but not adding their own components: A tightly wound copper wire.

I haven't had a chance to actually include what I've written or found, but I look through it from time to time (And tried to write an Aasimar variant of my own, only for it to be superceded and incompatible with what's in Volo's)

Choosing the array, unlike point buy, is technically not a variant rule. It is described in the same paragraph as rolling, and does not say "your DM may allow," it explicitly leaves the choice to the player.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, (as my OSR experience is mostly limited to retroclones, rather than OSR games that tried to add anything new) but Aren't saves in OSR game disassociated from stats to begin with?

First module I possessed was Keep on the Borderlands (as my dad let me own his Basic set, even though the box and the dice went missing). Unfortunately it was still a good number of years before I could really get "into" D&D, so I never ran it. First module I purchased for myself was...

The DM has way too much latitude for that to be a reliable strategy (including going so far as to be allowed to say "no" and fizzling your spell.) And if it does work, you're now stuck as a dragon. Without your class features. While being a dragon is interesting, you're going to have a hard time...

Don't forget that he wrote Innistrahd because he was already doing a campaign in Innistrahd. The document was basically his house rules for it that he figured he'd put online. I want to say this was true of Zendikar as well, but I can't remember. This makes Kaladesh a little more difficult for...

Eh, what? Polymorph can only turn you into beasts. You can't turn into dragons with it, that's what True Polymorph is for. And sorcerers don't get true polymorph, only regular polymorph. Not only that, but True Polymorph is a 9th level spell, meaning you can't cast it using wish.

I'm just picturing the Treant had this moment of realization, something like: "Ack, stupid archers, shooting with their stupid bows." "Wait a minute. That bolt is made of wood. I'm made of wood. That must mean he's hunting me for wood for his arrows."

Don't forget that Gygax did use plenty of obscure references elsewhere (Gorgon as a bull comes to mind), so even if it's not the immediate definition, he might've used it anyway.

The biggest boon I realized with the Alchemist is that it opens up the potential for more generic items on the equipment list. I can see Smoke Sticks, Tanglefoot, and the swift-step draught being available to purchase for 50-100 gp.

Is it just me or is 11th level a dead level? I thought we were moving away from dead levels, and the bump to tier 3 seems like an odd place to put one as well.

One of the biggest complaints I see about the sorcerer is that it's actually limited to mostly blasting. As you point out, it's a very good blaster, but you might run into walls trying to do what a wizard can do.

Of those spells listed, the Sorcerer only has cloudkill and banishment, unless you went warlock 17/sorc3, in which case you can't have both foresight and true polymorph, and you'd lose cloudkill. EDIT: wish might work for forcecage, but you still can't polymorph into a dragon

I remember this. I'm glad it worked out and had the desired effect.

Don't forget that the Lich has a higher AC, better saves, A higher DC and attack bonus, slightly more hit points, does not need to expend spell slots before the fight like the archmage does, Legendary resistance, legendary actions, and a paralyzing effect it can do without casting spells as a...

Right, I get it. Like I said, I was probably getting some biases from how Delay works in Cyclic initiative, wherein it potentially becomes a game of getting everything right, rather than the frenzied mess initiative is supposed to represent. I see what you're getting at, though personally I...

I think if you're using delay to treat it like side initiative, it'd be better to just use side initiative than to use a different initiative system the same way. (Nor am I too huge on delay. I'm not sure how crucial it is for everything to work, and I may still be thinking in Cycles, but...

Right. I must've missed him casting it. That said, it does bring up something I might do if I were to use this (Strictly to help me as a DM keep it organized; I doubt the players would see much difference in play) and possibly have explicit "phases" on my side of the screen: Things that happen...