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I tend to utilize Yugoloths, mainly because I love how they play both sides of the Blood War (demons and devils) to their own advantage. Also, of the fiend types they seem to get the least press. Of course that probably suits them just fine, playing the role of innocent merchant/information...

Abi-Dalzim 16 Aganazzar 15 Bigby 23 Drawmij 8 Leomund 19 Maximilian 18 Melf 11 - so many of the names around Gygax' table were lazy and uninspired, but this one outdoes them all. It's gotta go. Mordenkainen 26 Nystul 18 Otiluke 20 Otto 22 Rary 16 Tasha 25 Tenser 21 - one of the...

Abi-Dalzim 18 Aganazzar 17 Bigby 22 - I just dig this line of spells, it's so D&D. Drawmij 9 Leomund 18 Maximilian 18 Melf 16 - if you can't take more than 3 seconds to come up with a name, you deserve an ignominious end. Mordenkainen 25 Nystul 18 Otiluke 20 Otto 22 Rary 22 Tasha...

Random tips acquired in ~20 years of off-and-on DMing: Above all else, know your group. No two tables I've ever sat at (as a player or DM) played the game in the same way. I've been around heavy RPers where an entire session can go by without a single die being thrown. I've been in groups...

There are ninja on Athas?

This sounds a bit like the old Dark Phoenix arc back in the late 70s and early 80s X-Men comics. Jean Grey is granted with this nearly godlike power. She struggles to adjust but basically tries to remain true to herself and use the power sparingly, and for good purposes. But of course the...

With the advent of DM's Guild - first with Forgotten Realms and setting-neutral material, then the addition of Ravenloft (and now I'm hearing rumors that Dragonlance is fair game?) - I'm wondering if people have taken things they've originally posted on this site and tried to move them over...

While I can't help you out with the Blood Hunter angle on his new character, I do have some advice for "removing" an old character that a player simply isn't enjoying, other than falling on their own sword or just wandering off to go tend an inn: Heroic Death Years ago I ran a campaign where...

Terrific series. It seemed like this particular entry, as befitting such a bizarre (and sometimes goofy) monster, had quite a bit more snark in it than previous entries. It very much worked though, as many of the appearances of jackalweres over the years have been silly, intentionally or not.

I've always found this box cover to be an exceptional picture:

The only person I've run into here that has "dual citizenship" in both EN World and Planewalker is Quickleaf. I PMd him here and he was kind enough to post my dilemma in the Bug Report section over at Planewalker, but nothing ever came of it. I don't know if the moderator over there simply...

Yep, and that's what makes it even more frustrating. I can see conversations going on, continuing each day, and want to contribute but am unable to do so. It's tough, because these smaller "niche" setting forums like Birthright and Planescape have fairly small user bases as it is, you'd think...

Sorry to hear that. I can't help you, but I'm in the same boat at http://www.planewalker.com/ I've tried username/password recovery, but no email is ever sent to my inbox, despite it saying one has. One thing you might want to try (didn't work for me, but perhaps you'll have better luck) is...

Maybe don't have them meet the lillend at all? It's been over a decade since I read that book, so I don't remember how important she is to the overall story of the first adventure (is that the one with the Pillar of Skulls in Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells of Baator?) Oops I was...

I was going through the obvious candidates - like Harpy and Hydra, with tons of established mythology. But then I decided to pull for my dark horse candidate - Hook Horror: which I think was fairly obscure/underutilized until R.A. Salvatore brought them back in his Dark Elf trilogy. Also, it...

In the Forgotten Realms novel Red Magic (Book 3 of the Harpers series) there are two galeb duhr guarding a gold mine northeast of Amruthar in the nation of Thay. When approached by a large army of Szass Tam's undead, the galeb duhr (under magical compulsion from Maligor, a rival Red Wizard)...

I'm going to whisper the word "dragonne" several times in chant-like succession, because what is cooler than a huge lion and a brass dragon hybrid? **EDIT** Ah crap, looks like I'm late to the party (as usual) and he's already up to H.

What a great boxed set this was. I didn't run it completely as a campaign, but rather inserted several portions of it into my pre-existing storyline. Even without utilizing every bit of it, I still got a TON of mileage out of this product. The reviewer is spot-on, this was a terrific value...