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I loved the whole ecology of the monster's things that dragon magazine used to do. I do think for those who are new to DM'ing, overworked and without lots of prep time or in some cases just not super creative it helps a lot to have an idea of the ecologcial niche the monster might occupy...

And as for Smell look up how some snakes use it. Some creatures have such a strong sense of smell they can follow you know where you are and fight you just fine without vision. And if we can have Magical creatures with dark vision why can't smell be a little be over the top and when...

Then you use Tremorsense all wrong. Dirt or sandy floors and they monsters know where every step is coming from and where every step is made. Just like a spider in a web watching, waiting and then Boom. I find other DM's tend to want to use tremorsense on a big baddie in a town or an...

The depicting living beings was a pretty strong thing in some tribal cultures when the world was being civilized. Some tribal cultures would kill people for such things because they thought pictures and paintings that looked too real took a piece of your soul to make. Shouldn't surprise...

or Tremorsense, or Smell.

well What I find is if you stick to the rules of darkvision, through enough monsters at them that can see at 120' or have magic that let them see at 120 feet then eventually the PC's don't want to rely on darkvision anymore. Once they realize most monsters can see further than they can then...

I loved the incompleate Enchanter, I like woods out back, Poul Anderson, The Broken Sword, Three Hearts and Three Lions, I also loved The Song Of Albion Trilogy by Stephen Lawhead. It's scifi but so High tech it could easily be magic. The world of Tiers series by Philip Jose Farmer, where a...

Of course we know that Zagyg's demi plane has dinosaurs and King Kong.

little in the outer realms being subjective so bigger than most worlds....

obviously one of the many of the prime materials multiverse. IF they have to be on the outerplanes I'd say a little border realm a "land of the lost" between arborea and the beastlands.

5e is very simple and playable great to get started. But I suspect it suffers more for new DM's and players at high levels than 4th E that may be why. Of course every new edition the designers look lovingly at the older stuff that might patch the bones of what they built last time.

I could see some fun steam punk style fantasy on the arcadia one....

the big black wall with no sure knowledge of what is there would stop 99 percent of all rushed attacks was the point. add acceleration and the idea of a dragon flying through the mountains in the dark (or forest) and it just gets stupid. But I'm beating a dead horse.

almost everyone I've ever talked to about planescape since came out, played in sigil then went to hell and that was about it. I've never talked to anyone who used any of the other stuff. I think that says more than I can about them.

some of the monsters are good. but yeah the rest of it was garbage.

Still are you going to run full speed into a big dark wall of who knows what.

i mean a red dragon flying at max of 80 ft per round who dashes cannot see past 120ft when he starts the dash. But he'll end move at 160 ft......George George George of the Jungle "watch out for that Tree!" very poorly thought out.

I think it was the back handed admission by WOTC that DarkVision was broken

that's true and if you wanted to argue that a creature that can only see with dark vision couldn't be blinded I'd say sure. But WOTC loves it's monsters to see in any light so we have most creatures with switchable vision. (weird idea at best). So there should be some penalty to just switch...

and they all suck and had no where near the detail or plot hooks that the sigil and lower planar stuff had. In fact I don't thing even one of all the novels they wrote seriously showcased any non evil location other than sigil.