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My homebrew mashup uses a lot of D&D and pathfinder elements so I mostly have stuff from the standards with a big human focus including a number of human ethnicities (mostly pathfinder Golarion ones such as the fantasy versions of viking Ulfen, Celtic Kellid, African Garundi, etc.). Individual...

Milestone has been my preference since 3e and 5e makes it an official option but not the default, which is still everyone requires specific numbers of xp to reach various levels and all monsters have an xp value based on their CR that gets split among the party. (caveat, I do not know what the...

I found running through the first two and three modules in converted APs that keeping the number and CR of monsters the same with 5e equivalents worked fine for me. I never did the math to see how they stack up to the 5e DMG encounter guideline/evaluations. The only adjustment was when the party...

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The Psychic's Handbook 3.5 Spontaneous Psychic Construct: It may be possible for some psychic constructs to arise spontaneously without being deliberately created by a psychic. Such spontaneous constructs may appear due to a combination of intense emotion and latent psychic ability in a living...

Iron Gods from my experience worked great as is interconnected plot wise for the three modules I ran with tons of opportunities to riff any way you want (I used references from a ton of sci fi shows and RPGS and alterations to fit my homebrew setting) but a ton of the monsters and NPCs you are...

Carrion Crown. It has a great 5e conversion for modules 1-3 and they make a completed AP on their own with a logical climax and BBEG flagged from the beginning. It is also pretty tight on the gothic horror themes with a four part themed sequence of ghosts, Frankenstein, werewolves, and zombie...

WotC did plan to reverse their position that the OGL is irrevocable and to attempt to revoke the OGL creating a potential threat over every product produced under the OGL and over every company planning on using the OGL going forward. After the huge negative publicity and backlash over this...

Early D&D did not have a hard fantasy sci fi flavor divide, there was a bunch of occasional blending and juxtapositions such as existed in sword and sorcery stuff like Lankhmar and Dying Earth. Gygax sent his group to Barsoomian Mars for instance as well as stuff like Expedition to Barrier Peaks...

The Planes - Zahhak 3.5 Hollow Dead, Soul of a Person Who Died in the Material Plane and Ended up in Zahhak Due to Hopelessness But Who Still Possesses the Spark of Willpower that Kept Them From Ending up as a Statue: Hollow dead are souls who were weak and despaired enough that they fell to the...

2e - Player facing stats like THAC0 and saves. 3e - Ascending AC. 4e - Solo, Elite, and Minion monsters. 5e - Concentration.

I had never heard of it, thanks for the link.

The Lifebringer 3.5 Undead, Undead Creature: ? Undead Horror: The forces of corruption that transform living creatures into undead horrors are worthy only of destruction. Intelligent Undead That Do Not Actually Need to Do Harm to Anyone to Survive: ? Intelligent Undead, Personal Affront to the...

I have a bunch of fantasy analogue stuff in my mashup homebrew setting and this includes some historic events and movements and not just specific setting elements like fantasy vikings or fantasy ancient Egypt. Alexandros the Great conquered most of the world and we now have common throughout...

From the Shadows is in the bad half for me too. I agree that doing terrible things to the characters to force them into the plot is bad. It is up there with the doppleganger and flesh golem ones for screwing over PCs by removing their agency and doing things to the characters. Night of the...

I found about half the 2e Ravenloft modules of excellent quality (I also found about half were terrible agency removing or genre breaking things that I did not care for or run) and had great experiences running a large number in two 2e campaigns. I was not a Planescape person but I heard...

I did not find the 2e psionics splat book overpowered. Roll to activate with possible power fumbles, three touches to establish telepathic contact, etc. The closest to overpowered was probably the possibility of a save or die disintegrate and even that was after spending a lot of points and...

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