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Mord as a Neutral, and self-described "placed my thumbs on both sides of the scales" would want to mess with Iuz's plans to extend his own influence / directly weaken Good powers. To keep Iuz from tipping The Balance in his own favor. (And keep Iuz too busy plotting revenge against the PCs to...

I am old enough to remember that in real time. The drought was natural. The famine was man-made.

Mark Twain: "The stories of my death have been greatly exaggerated." May Tony also find occasion to say same.

Working from my prior post: If L1-L3 is about shutting down the Temple of Evil-Chaos, the endgame could be foiling a plan of Iuz -or- breaking one of his toys* -or- taking out a chief henchman. No bonus points if Mordenkainen shows up on the very last page of the adventure to tell the PCs...

Since Greyhawk has been on the Obsolete Shelf (and the Lawsuit Magnet Closet) for a generation, new player options will have to draw on things that BASIC and 1e had, which were not subsequently followed up. Racial / cultural paragon feats. The essence of the most elf-y an individual can be or...

"You have to go deal with Attila the Hun" (on up to Joseph Stalin) - somebody with an empire's worth of resources / has defenses built up over a lifetime of dedicated effort - would be what high-level adventurers do all day. On Dark Sun, the PCs might decide to not-pay The Dragon's tribute in...

A Bond Movie chase scene might be more suitable than Indy. Were I a PC, I would be looking for a way to block pursuit - fill the road with clutter, spray oil behind us, drop tire-popping tacks, swerve around an approaching parade / procession about to clog the cross-road, throw handfulls of...

If WotC repeats some horrible mistake from the past (pre-4e "insult the existing player base" marketing comes to mind) then a problem will arise. If they sell the revisions as "improved by integrating feedback from years of experience around the table and the e-table" it should be fine...

1e Gamma World had a section on "Hopeless Characters", and 2e GW advice to PCs included the observation that being a hero is tough and very-low-stat individuals were unlikely to successfully face the hazards they would meet. (Both games used 'roll for stats'.) I have carried that mindset into...

Go look up the thread about the all-girl Ghostbusters remake. I observed that the four lead actresses did not have a decade of experience working together the way Ramis / Ackroyd / Murray did and would have a rougher time bouncing off (and improving) each others' work. That comment...

Riffing off the Nine Trickster Gods' "amulets" in Tomb of Annihilation... You get some common or consumable magic item that has a spell-like ability if used in this dungeon. For instance, a Censer of Group Healing that when lit is treated as an area-effect version of Healing Word, one time...

My go-round in Jan was COVID plus strep throat plus some other stuff that I was in no condition to remember. Doctor put me on antibiotics which helped me perk up but the nasty strep taste did not break until I gargled with Listerine. (Not the Original Flavor - I was improving enough to...

The 'beginning adventure chapter' for the Greyhawk AP could begin at the Keep on the Borderlands map. I really enjoyed the Next adaptation of the evil-chaos temple cave; try to use that as the final quest for the chapter.

Paladin of the Ancients - played to L9, became backup character (because I was asked to take over as DM) until L14. Rogue1/Monk3 (Open Hand) for AL Season 1. Some of the other players in those modules may think he was all-Rogue or a Ranger due to my tactical choices.

Besides "no plan for $1B trilogy", the other critical Disney error out of the gate was "destroy everything the heros spent three movies trying to accomplish and leave them wandering amidst the wreckage". If the backstory had been "the heros succeeded but the upcoming generation lost their...

If the ranger moves away from the spellcasters, no problem. AFB and I don't know if a beholder can "blink" the big eye during its turn, leaving the spellcasters hosed when their turn comes up. A beholder with a telekinesis ray can float rocks overhead and move them into the field; gravity...

If your group is spellcaster-heavy, a beholder will do the trick. Turn on the antimagic field, stay at least 15 feet up, and eye-ray the archer first.

Try to summon a creature and you get an up-powered version. Giant, or dire, or (for instance) a mummy instead of a skeleton. Larry Niven's "The Magic Goes Away" has the opposite situation, but might inspire ideas from scenes when a spellcaster goes all-out. "The Burning City" is a riff on the...

Now I have to get my glasses checked ...

The author stated he wanted a non-woke comic, and people are having very predictable reactions to the use of that buzzword. The interview excerpts I saw reminded me of a few panels from an old Dr Strange comic: Dr Strange was having arthritis and trembling in his hands when he worked on big...