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Anyone who makes a character without talking to the DM first is already starting off on the wrong foot. An enormous percentage of homebrew worlds also have restrictions. Or maybe the world doesn't have restrictions, but the campaign is one in which all PCs have to be members of the royal court...

Yup. The first syllable is basically "kite."

Oh, I'm aware. That was more a comment about how different our (and people's, in general) tastes and preferences are.

Wow. WotC's going to have a hard time pleasing everyone, then, because I want almost none of that. :lol:

Huh. It never even occurred to me to read the ability as anything other than what Sunseeker is defining as "hard closed." You're changing sex, not who you are or anything else about you. I see no reason for--and wouldn't allow--any other changes to appearance. That strikes me as not just...

I've always sort of assumed that he knows they're present, but neither he nor his agents can find them--perhaps due to the machinations of the Dark Powers themselves. So his next best bet is to muddy the waters. Although the idea of him having gotten rid of them and still creating fakes does...

I'm one of those guys who thinks the Dark Powers should never be explained, or have comprehensible motives. (The attempt to define them in Curse of Strahd was one of two aspects of that adventure I absolutely despised, despite being overall happy with the book.) But as explanations go, for...

Speaking of "eaten by ghouls," am I the only one who's still miffed we never found out what happened to the "example of play" party in the 1E DMG? ;)

They built a third party. It burned down, fell over, then sank into the swampgot eaten by ghouls. But the fourth one stayed up!

They do not even remotely mean the same thing. Cisgender has to do with one's own gender. Heterosexual has to do with who you're attracted to.

Ugh. Even as a kid, I hated DMs who pulled crap like that. "You run into the door. You didn't say you opened it before going through." Choke on a d4, tinpot.

Not sure why this thought occurred to me now, but I have to say... If I were Strahd von Zarovich, I would create a whole crapload of fake sunswords and Holy Symbols of Ravenkind, slap Nystul's magic aura on all of them, and hide them throughout Barovia. :] And if I ever do run another...

Darklords (one word) are the trapped domain rulers in Ravenloft. The Dark Powers (two words) are the unknown entities/forces behind the existence of the Domain of Dread itself. I don't think "Shadowlords" has any existing etymology in the game, though the idea of Shadowfell-equivalents of...

See, to me? That's a flaw with the design of other settings, not with Dark Sun. No, I don't think all settings should break some of the game's assumptions, but I do think many should. I like that sort of thing. I like creators putting theme, mood, and aesthetic ahead of rules. It's one of...

The fourth--which I find the most interesting, for character purposes--is simply that changing to male during pregnancy kills the fetus. Which means the elf now has genuine consequences and decisions to deal with. What if the character feels more comfortable as a man, or with the ability to...

Just to throw another spanner into the works, there's more evidence that Athas was accessible (though not necessarily easily or readily) from the multiverse: Kalidnay. Which, for those who don't know, would be the domain of Ravenloft that was taken from Athas, and ruled by a lieutenant of one...

If they have, the Blessing of Corellon probably makes it easier to find ammo now.

I don't have the sheets from that long ago, sadly. I'm not sure if it was my first PC--I think I had one or two in red box basic--but the first PC I remember was from 1E. Terren Nightsbane, paladin. Human, because paladins had to be human, though I vaguely recall he might have had a tiny...

Mostly the same. Anything beyond casual conversation or, at most, light/flirty banter happens "off-screen." But even if it's mostly "fade to black," such events are still a part of character development, and it's not like I have the NPCs forget what happened afterward. (The above applies to all...

Okay, but that actually is the definition. Whether one has transitioned or not, or wants to transition or not, is separate from the trans identity. I don't mean to sound like I'm picking on you, I just feel that people's identities and definitions are important, which makes the terminology by...