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You've got a lot of good recommendations for the flavor and setting. Here are a few meta/game questions: What's the highest power the characters should expect to attain? The largest area of the world they expect to affect by campaign end? Are the expect to gain in power? Or are they satisfied...

As your party enters 10th level, you can expect sapient opponents to be (at a minimum) aware of their presence in the area. If their opponents can reasonably expect to be their opponents, you can expect them to actually plan and prepare to counter well-known party abilities. (In short, the...

Isn't that pronounced "AAAAAAIIEEEEEEE!" or "Save me! Kill me first!"?

Another one: The Earth is under continuous meteor bombardment, and has been for years. Each meteor is also highly radioactive. Above ground, the shallow seas have all boiled away. The deep seas are evaporating under the bombardment as well. Everything above ground is highly, lethally...

Eh. PA can even work with space travel, as long as you adjust the scope. As an example: Shepard wasn't successful in Mass Effect. The Reapers came through and blew everyone out of space, and back into the pre-industrial age. But the [PC race] remembers. They remember that once they flew through...

Ditto on what Reynard said, but in addition (considering this might be an entry into high-level adventuring): advice on how high-level spells affect the tactical play. as well as specific advice on high-level tactics (and their counters). E.g. from back in 3e's day, scry-and-die and its...

Yep. My 5e campaign - which ended with the characters fighting Tiamat herself in Avernus - didn't have any. Now, it did have extremely high-level magics thrown around for specific effects. But not Wish itself. It worked just fine. I've also played high-level games where Wish was used. I've...

Eh. I've found that unless my PCs are significantly over-powered than the ostensible minion AND I'm running gobs and gobs of the minions, I'm better off just using the monsters as written. If I'm running gobs and gobs of minions AND I want them to be a threat, I use swarm/mob/horde rules...

I was thinking "Historian" as in the GM who only runs campaigns set in real world historical settings (with or without their attached fantasy elements). I suppose it could also apply to someone who wanted to run a campaign in FR during the eras of the Dragon-Giant Wars, or during the Phaerimm...

Research. Hmmmm...... I think a really basic form of it (Basic/Light/Shallow Research?) might be a foundational skill of the class. The in-depth form is certainly part of the Architect subclass. I'm not sure that it's a full subclass itself. Thinking about it, there might be a "Historian"...

The first (early 2000's) D&D movie is the only time I've heard my wallet scream in the theater. It's also one of the very few movies where I've observed a single overwhelming reaction. "I could have written a better screenplay in a week." It was terrible. I mean, really, really, terrible. One...

That is the first step, yes. It may be the hardest for the aspirant. But it is not a sufficient step. If you want to be more than just an aspirant - and GMing is no different - you have to do more than just show up. Now having shown up, most players and GMs that I know will help you learn the...

Medium-sized dog. German Shepherd, Doberman, Rottweiler are pretty much absolute limits - I'd survive. Probably. Maybe. Let me keep my delusions. Domestic Cat. Domestic Fowl. Geese is a maybe, chickens probable.

I'll agree that Fair Judgement isn't a starting skill. Neither is Group Management. However, both are foundational skills, in my mind - basic in the sense that if you haven't acquired them (not mastered, acquired) you can't fully claim to be a GM. Ditto for Rules Competence. Now as an...

Dejah Thoris (and Thuvia, too) Kori'andr (or Maxima, to choose two from DC who aren't Diana) Cordelia VorKosigan (and pretty much all her daughter-in-laws)

I missed this way back, so I hope it's not too late, but honestly the original Lost Mines of Phandelver for 5e is really solid, and I suspect she's already familiar with the system. PF2e is a little bit of a step up in complexity, but should still be manageable due to its consistency...

I think your d6 Subclass list is woefully incomplete. Glaring omissions : 7. Portraying NPCs in an engaging manner. 8. Designing/Building Engaging/Challenging Encounters 9. Character Spotlight Management (as mentioned above) 10. Incorporating/Engaging Character Backstories/Subplots in Play. I...

Point of Fact, I have the Companion (& Masters!) Boxed Sets (somewhere...). But somehow missed the Immortals set. As for the Rules Cyclopedia, I regarded it then (and still do) as a purely end-of-life/line product. And a very good summary of the BECM product line. (So maybe a cash grab, but a...

Huh. I would have figured 2e and 6e (or whatever its name-of-the-week is). Just based on "its just a rules revision" flavor of 3.5. I would NOT have picked either one. 4e may have been a disaster, but it was a genuinely new edition. Ditto for 1e. Now, the shenanigans they tried to play with...

Out of curiosity, what are the other two?