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That's hilarious. You really should try reading about the Druid class before writing anything about their beliefs, empowerment, or how inconsequential it must be for them to violate taboos. Druidic powers have ALWAYS been based on religious beliefs. In 1e, druids were a cleric subclass. Even...

Wrong. You tried to bring up some people's willingness to violate taboos when in distress IRL as somehow being significant. In a fictional, magical world where we have powerful magical forces and individuals who derive magical powers from their religious practices, it is idiotic to presume that...

Vacuous argument. In real life, we don't have obviously interventionist deities (or sets of spiritual beliefs) that regularly grant people magic powers.

Ooof, mea culpa. Seem to have confused similar threads with recent threads :(

True, but a crafter with only cantrip-level magic could carve a properly shaped bone, wood, or stone bead; cut a tiny slit through which to insert said bead; and then cast mending to repair the slit.

Because it's against the rules for druids to wear metal armor. And the restriction has been part of Druid lore and flavor since 1e. And because introducing a plot element sacred to one of your players' character but not letting them make use of it is about as dickish as.... ...creating a whole...

You mean this big? You might consider looking up the relative densities of common stone types vs metal or metal ores - seeing as how it's mass not size (beyond the nitty-gritty drag components) that determine the amount of energy from falling impacts.

Why must a fallen star be made of metal, again? Why not glowing crystal, stone, magically congealed light, magically hardened ice or something even more exotic?

But not a cartel / monopoly. In most game worlds. * cue Brooklyn accent * "So you taught you could j'st help yuhself ta one o' OUR trees?"

Kinda feels like more of a halfling thing to me personally (going purely from my gut) but ymmv. Not sure why - I suppose part of the melange of anachronistic, ahistorical influences that make up my personal view of "halflingess" includes a touch of early New England colonist, minus the religion...

Perhaps. But how many others "races" have a significant incidence of childlike characters? One has to presume that in a large enough population you will find Dwarves who take up Wizardry or who don't like beer, Elves who become miners or can't nance, Humans with timeless patience, Dragonborn...

Hmm. Would have thought that was more of an Aerenal (Eberronian) thing.

It will at least be a delicious cooked elf.

Acorn aren't toxic to humans. When cooked. EDIT: The more accurate answer would be - when prepared properly.

Another possibility - they trade for food. From races like halflings. There have been real-world homologues.

Yeah, the entire point of that little story was that the majority of creatures or humanoids are giant from a halfling's perspective.

The callused halfling looks to be picking out a sliver from his scabby, little hands with a pitted knife. "Thing I nevver got about you fancy folks is all that stupid pre-occ'pation wit size. Who gots the longest gorilla arms, who gots the biggest, shiniest rock, the draggingest robes, the...

In most cases for most groups - imprisonment. Beat and taunt (briefly! Too much exposition = ungood) them while they're down for their stupidity. Take their stuff, let them recover their major pieces of equipment but lose a bit of the minor; force them to try escape at reduced hp.

One item of historical hilarity here - that I would guess someone has probably brought up at some point in these 216 pages - is the case of the Balearic isles. Home to a peaceful, herding culture in Roman and Carthaginian times that essentially never waged war on any other nations (though the...

More generally speaking, I like traps as the occasional puzzle for the party, flavor to make the environment seem more interesting or real, as an added twist, or a an occasional source of amusement. Sometimes as an extra tactical complication during combat. I particularly like traps that get...