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It's practically impossible with good and evil because good and evil are ideologically locked opposites. You can absolutely disprove the dichotomy by providing neutrality... But a third pole that somehow opposes both good and evil, is pretty much impossible without being one of those three...

Put simply: Neutral characters are, inevitably, morally indifferent. It's how neutrality works. They allow evil to thrive and hold power because they just don't really care. Sure, they'd prefer if the people in their life were good, but don't want to put forth the effort to make it so. Muscular...

5e is just D&D as it exists, now. It represents a lot of material tested over the course of decades. Some of the problems (like the Rogue Skill Table) have been winnowed away. Some of the more positive mechanics (like multiple attacks for fighters) have been codified. And a whole pantload of...

I was unaware of that use of the word corn. Though I suppose, in hindsight, I shouldn't have been, considering barley corns are a thing and refer to the individual bits of edible plant that you use for cooking. I apologize. This might shock you but I'm not looking to "Win Friends" when I...

In that case I think: There is no difference, at least in one direction. If you said "Bring me that soup" and pointed at a beef stew they'd probably just do it. Now if you pointed at a thin brothy soup like a consomme and called it stew they might argue. Maybe it's a Square and Rectangle...

Specifically, though: Lid off!

Once I finish writing up the magic item for A5e, absolutely perpetual. It never runs out. It also won't digest. Or decay. THE WORLD WILL DROWN IN PERPETUAL STEW!

@Charlaquin @Whizbang Dustyboots I think the thickening of a stew is the most important thing. Sometimes that's done by cooking until the liquid partially evaporates and has "Stewed Down" like in stewed tomatoes. However, it's also done by adding thickeners like Corn Starch, Toasted Flour, or...

Call 'em sandwiches. Who cares if there's no Earl of Sandwich to name them? Besides, how else can I get a little goblin surf and turf if there's no sandwiches? (Tuna salad and meatball sub) I think the Calzone should be relabeled the Burrito. I feel more comfortable saying that a Calzone is...

Eh... D&D isn't an "Alternate Timeline" of Europe. It's a bunch of fantasy realms most of which rely on various bits and pieces of historical equipment, food, monsters, and mannerisms cherry picked from 7000BCE to 1800CE based on what the people writing it think is cool or interesting. It...

Oh, well? I got tagged as a reference to a previous post so I recreated the thrust of that previous post.

So... a TON of food we associate with "Medieval Europe" was not available in Europe in the Middle Ages. Taters, for example, PO-TAY-TOES, were an American staple cultivated in Bolivia in 8,000BCE or thereabouts. Europe wouldn't get their greedy hands on them until the early 1500s and it...

Oh, sure. Planar Being, Extraplanar, Beyonder, Aetheric. Any old word will do, the important thing is the category itself. Though in hindsight... Maybe it should be a Subtype? Then you can have Planar Humanoids and Planar Monstrosities. (Or Extraplanar, Beyonder, Aetheric, whatever...

Oh, no. I'm not saying they're a -bad- thing. Just that they are a thing. And asking: How can we switch up those tropes in different ways to create a new vibe or structure? And the corollary question: What's the most cursed version of it we could do?

Yup! Has the same sort of usage in English. Dreck meaning "Rubbish" or "Trash". Typically used by Movie Reviewers to disparage bad movies, these days. Mostly came into use in the US as a Yiddish disparagement that spread out from there, which is nifty!