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What I thought was interesting was the huge variation in the different boons of the Demons and Devils. There's a lot of different kinds of mechanics and recharge rates. I think, besides the notion of customizing common enemies, that the point of the UA was to test how players and DMs felt...

Some of those, like Adventures in Middle Earth, are available from Bits and Mortar. If you buy a game book from your Friendly Local Game Store (FLGS) and both the FLGS and the designer participate in Bits and Mortar, then you get the PDF for free. I wish there were more participants.

Board games division? Could some of these be expansions to games like Lords of Waterdeep?

From the Temple of the Frog in Blackmoor and onward, there have been many frog, toad and amphibian themed dungeons. I'm looking to steal from them for an adventure in my home campaign. Prefer ones that have an outdoor swamp component and water portions. But I'm looking to do a "literature...

I only played 4e for the 1st year or so of it coming out. One of the subsystems that I liked were rituals, but that isn't a choice on the poll. As I haven't followed it, was there a consensus on how the ritual system worked?

I can't possibly answer because my DMing philosophy is completely counter to yours. I feel it is my job to present compelling problems to the players and leave it to them to figure out their own solutions. I DM to find out what happens, not to script it. I can tell you that as a player, the...

I don't show my maps to the players.

I used to use Maptool and hope to upgrade to Mote when I get a new display figured out. (I play face to face). Here are some of my sources for Maps: Rpg mapshare Cartographer's Guild I've used PyMapper for dungeons. Tiamat is another interesting tile mapper. I've also used Sketchup to make...

Wow, that was just a bit before my time and I had to google it. Damn.

Count me as one singing, "Ding, dong, the witch is dead." Alternately, this little ditty by Elvis Costello about someone else about whom I'm glad don't share the earth with us anymore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t4-zDem1Sk

What you want is "Medieval Demographics Made Easy", a set of formulas by S John Ross based on the Doomsday Book. There are several online versions. I like this one, but there are others.

I've been stealing tables and hooks from Slumbering Ursine Dunes and Marlinko for my 5th edition game, haven't checked out Mistly Eisles yet.

The range is 90', and has a duration of 1 hour with a 1st level slot. You cast it as a bonus action before you move to cover/change lighting (possibly long before if someone is chasing you) and spend your action to hide. Invisibility is a 2nd level spell, and you can't hide on the same round...

I'm a world builder as well and I modified what races/cultures and classes are available too. It's easier to remove stuff than to add it at first (for me: no dragonborn, no gnomes, no drow, no bards, etc.) I don't have the link handy, but someone has engineered a system for making new races...

I used chips like that in 4e, but it slowed the game down with so many status effects adding little things to the minis. I still use chips, but now just put them on their character sheets. I also use them for inspiration.

Hex is situational, but I keep finding more situations. Hiding? Disadvantage their wisdom checks. I've used it in social situations, giving disadvantage to the prosecution's lawyer's charisma checks on his closing arguments, hexing the agitator's charisma in a derro street demonstration, and...

You have to go to at least Warlock 2, because you don't get invocations (Agonizing Blast) until level 2. I think Warlock is the easiest class to screw up with poor choices. Eldritch Blast, Hex and Agonizing Blast should be defaults unless you're going for a Pact Blade Warlock (where Hex is...

I'm actually considering getting rid of the skill system altogether. Perhaps I'd keep tool/kit proficiencies, but maybe not. Why? As a DM, the skill system encourages me to ask the players for a roll instead of asking them to describe their action, or just saying Yes/Yes, But/No. Unless...

Sure, I'll link for exp. ;) This version is consistent with the 5e one on enworld, different from the old one I used in the C&C campaign that the blog post quoted. Oh, and here are my modifications to the one on ENworld, containing my own experimental ratios for slots for food/water and how...

I'm playing a warlock (well, sorc-lock but still), so I feel the limitations of concentration and its choices and drawbacks every session. I'm still convinced it was a brilliant design decision, as much as I curse it. (see what I did there?) But can anyone find me an area control spell that...