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What does it eat? No, really. Illithids subsist on the brains of humanoids. The brains provide enzymes, hormones, and psychic energy necessary for their survival. An illithid healthy from a brain-rich diet secretes a thin glaze of mucus that coats its mauve skin. — Monster Manual, p.221

While I really appreciate their intent, I'm not sure how (and if) this is going to work in a fictional universe (or a bunch of them) traditionally featuring explicit good and evil as one of its main plot drivers, if they take this seriously. Will elven longevity be optional? Long ears be...

You do know there's an official (and rather beautiful) adventure game adaptation of the movie, I suppose? Here's a thorough review of it, in case you didn't.

~90% DM for almost 30 years. (And by "DM" I mean not just Dungeon Master but GM, Storyteller, Keeper and so on, and so on, even though this is a D&D forum, obviously.)

Do you mean something like the DM mode of Divinity: Original Sin 2? (Demoed by Mercer and his team here.)

They weren't necessarily that terrible, if you built a specialized thief. For example, in AD&D 2e, your lv1 half-elf thief with a Dex of, say, 16 could have a Pick Pocket skill of 60% (15 base + 10 HE + 5 DEX + 30 optionally distributable (of the 60 available, of which you could assign 30 to a...

Though I'm aware of music bots for Discord, I simply post the youtube link for the ambient background music I picked and the players can play it however they like. These are long, instrumental ambient tracks, usually, or, if they're short, they're practically seamlessly repeatable, and I don't...

Just last week I had to check when we lost Keith Parkinson, one of my fav fantasy artists. It's a good thing you've put this list together and for the others to add to it. Thank you, all. And a toast to the memory of all we've lost, indeed.

I had an experimental alternate timeline mini-campaign in which AO, following the Time of Troubles, took over as the one and only god, absorbing the portfolio and essence of most gods who didn't resist him seeing this as a form of ascension. Some of them retained a kind of semi-consciousness in...

The archetypal, common myths with their villains and heroes. The folktales and pseudo-folktales that a real lot of ttrpg players grew up with and remember fondly from their childhood… and are happy to return to and re-tell or act as protagonists in. The not-too-far but not-too-close window of...

I never use published modules (though I may steal a monster or an NPC sometimes from here and there), so I guess none of these, unless SCAG counts. I guess it counts, right? I've never been a fan of metaplot (in any rpg), and always loved designing my own parallel universe takes on official...

My standard solution is to have the players roll their die, then, if the roll is lower or equal to half the die value, add half the die value to the roll. If the roll is above half the die value, that's your result. For example, a roll of 1/2/3 on a d6 would be treated as (1+3)/(2+3)/(3+3)...