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Learn a ranged cantrip and ask the Thief, err Rogue, to teach you how to do that "hide around the corner" trick. And as noted above, thank the deities that cantrips were invented before you began adventuring. - another 1e Magic-User with 1 spell slot, 1 HP, a dagger and Robe "Armor"

A friend played me a video of some guys who re-write songs into a minor key. (This makes the tune sound sad or ominous.) One song was The Police "Every Breath You Take". The original was a guy not wanting to accept his ex-girlfriend has left him. The remake was The Stalker Song.

The "rainbow do-it-all chart" for Gamma World vol3 put me off trying to play that series of adventures. It was too different from the D&D-inspired GWvol2. (Somebody is solo-running the "Rite of Passage" adventure from the v2 Box Set on an EnWorld thread now.) When GWvol4 came out, I used that...

Bob Seger's Fortunate Son both established that Credence Clearwater Revival's lyrical claim "I'm not the fortunate one" was tongue-in-cheek -and- told you who the Draft Board came looking for next.

If you want to do extra research, many Gamma World modules have some over-the-top aspect to them. Nothing like a biker gang of man-size rabbits whose touch can turn metal to rubber charging down on the heroes.

I observe that Operation Valkyrie (upon which the movie of the same name is based) was a 1944 effort by some German Army officers to get rid of Adolph Hitler personally and take over the Government, under the belief that with him gone they could negotiate an end to the World War. Of course it...

Zap Putin personally, and the war effort goes on Pause (or autopilot) while a bunch of would-be successors sort out "Who's in charge here?!" Somebody with no ambition to necromancy the Soviet Union might decide to blame it all on Putin, back off, and ask the diplomats to provide a fig leaf to...

How about text "I know my group is in here somewhere" and picture the warehouse interior at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark?

I once invited some high-school friends over to play "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich". It took 2 hours to put out all the counters, we started to play, did not finish the first turn before we had to pack it all up (because we had taken over the dinner table and the pizza arrived).

-Cue music- If you believe in forever Then life is just a one night stand. If there's a rock-and-roll heaven Well you know they've gotta h--- of a band. -End music-

A PHB-only Barbarian and a Paladin of unknown Oath - both characters of the same player but in different campaigns - are my group's DPR King candidates. Our magic-user devotee prefers to bog down enemies with status conditions but will Inflict Wounds in a pinch.

Thrawn.

There was a similar thread - just about a year ago, as it happens - describing the same thing. Further down the Meta forum page, title "Prognosticating Alerts ..."

Tomb of Annihilation's chapter with a Gazetteer of Chult made me want to order plane tickets the first time I read it. Too bad that the Death Curse ticking timer gets in the way of PCs exploring it too.

The Whiskey Rebellion: up in the mountains, hardscrabble farmers can grow more than they will eat in a year - but just try to get a dozen wagonloads down to the market cities ! However, the grain can be converted to more-valuable and more-compact alcohol then moved. Enter the coin-hungry...

As it happens, I bought and built that original model. Never got around to painting it, though. The as-constructed ship had helicopter facilities on the back half of the ship, and fewer missile launchers up front. Video of the modernized ship left me wondering if it was really the same one.

Go back to base. Go directly back to base. Do not pass GO; do not collect any more foreign-owned explosive ordinance. (Yes I have heard the reports (not yet confirmed) that Moskva sank, but the pun on a Monopoly board was too good to pass up.)

A Spiritualist gets a bonus to rolls in Contact Other Plane and similar divination spells. A Materialist gets a +1 to-hit or damage (not both) with non-magical weapons. If damage, it is added after the 'takes half' of Resist Non-Magical Weapons monsters.

Use one of the Indy traps (the 'big seal on the floor which the artifact may not cross' seems good) and see if any of the players recognize it / identify the source. Tomb of Annihilation has an Indiana Jones -themed background, if you want to introduce an NPC (rival?) as an additional challenge.

Normally, General Winter and Colonel Mud are the Russians' best officers. We'll see if the Colonel has also been dismissed from service, as the General seems to have been.