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Do a Steins;Gate time leap. Instead of physically transporting their bodies back in time, just give their past selves the memories of their current selves. Or in your case, have them play as their past selves, but gradually have those future memories get reawakened. No time doppelgangers, no...

I dunno, I have trouble imagining a speech being able to do that just because other things in D&D are extraordinary. For me, it doesn't fit in with the sorts of extraordinary things people do in the game. I mean, magic makes sense because magic is easy to believe. Magic has "existed" forever...

I always thought of her as a Fey Pact warlock, but her "patron" is really just herself.

Thanks to the program MerricB made, I have finally made these in not-awful format. Yay!

I remember Rich Burlew had some interesting thoughts on optimization: Actually, that last one sounds kind of fun. How do you create a usable character in the least amount of time possible? What if someone did a game where everyone had to create characters as fast as they could, and then live...

Aww... I like them all! Well, I guess I just have to pick one, it is the will of the poll. Know who's getting off too easily? Barbarians. They can go. It's the only class I can't get excited about if I imagine playing one. I'm not scared, it's not like they can read any of this thread anyway...

Well, it seems like basically everyone who has posted agrees that optimization is not inherently bad, which is important to keep in mind. You guys have some common ground! There's a bunch of different playstyles, as the DMG acknowledges at the start, before even Chapter 1. Different players...

It can be useful to get a better idea behind a rule's intent, but I think it's important to remember that making a bad call on a minor rule interpretation is OK. If it turns out you made a mistake, just try a different interpretation next time and see if that's any better. D&D is, by design, an...

The quality of the posters on each forum I'd say is relatively the same, I think this one just has some features, such as different moderation approach and ways to show people you appreciate what they say, that help encourage constructive (or at least entertaining) behavior. So yes, to all the...

I've reached a sort of conundrum here. I know some D&D creatures are based on very obscure monsters, but never has one so completely stumped me and my internet searches before. The Vaati are a group of air elementals, yeah? Where does that name come from? I'd just write it off as a made-up word...

Yeah, I really love this metaphor. Like, I'm not particularly religious, but the concept of destroying books feels downright sacrilegious. Just... all that knowledge in one place, suddenly gone... there's something inherently wrong-feeling about that. How many stories can you think of where a...

...OK, done. I promise when I have some rest I'll come back and reformat all these posts. Goodnight.

Originally posted by Fralex: Hmm, but going with that example, why would two groups of people look at the same collection of stars and interpret them as beasts with such different appearances? A burrowing insectovore and a giant burrowing bug look pretty different. Presumably the animals of the...

Originally posted by BRJN: The appropriate animal could be a camel (my preference) or a desert tortise or an iguana ... or The Roadrunner. Originally posted by The_Jester: Many of the pirates are freebooters, given a licence to raid by the hobgoblin empire, so long as they limit...

Originally posted by pauldanielj2: Not only do hobgoblins believe they were chosen for greatness, they believe that the cycles of divine creation only exist as a prelude to their greatness. It's sort of like the movie "Groundhog Day", where everything just starts over and over again, repeating...

Originally posted by Orethalion:   And no race is more mercenary than goblins.  Once bought (and they all can be bought if you have their price), they will do their utmost to fullfill their contract.  Due to goblin necromancers, not even death will bar the completion of many deals. Originally...

Originally posted by bawylie: The Tarrasque is a bear and during its dormant stage is the constellation Ursa Major.  Originally posted by pauldanielj2: The roughest port on the Northern coast is the half-ruined city of Ashtmorven. Its most infamous tavern is The Bloody Cudgel; popular with...

Originally posted by Azure.Shade: Geography additions: Wolf's Cry Woods These woods are as peaceful as can be expected in a frontier area. Nearby settlers have reported goblin sightings in the past, but the little green buggers have been mostly too shy to mount a formal raid on anything. The...

Originally posted by Foxface: THE CAMPAIGN BIBLE The world is known as "Kohlcamm". (for COLLaborative CAMpaign) Gods and Creation In the beginning there was unsteady chaos. Then, the ambitious, ideological, and proud Gods each tried their level-best to shape the chaos in accords with...

This was a fun thread with some cool ideas. I dunno if Foxface goes here too and would rather do it him/her self, but I'm sure it won't ruin anything if I do it now. Hey, maybe we can even keep working on it here! Source...