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And this is why the mystic is not out yet, and why the design team is in a very difficult place where psionics are concerned. :) It's perfectly doable as a subclass or variation on an existing spellcaster--but then you lose the feel of psionics as being something truly different. So there...

To me, it feels like this is entirely an issue of presentation. If something is presented as a kick-in-the-door dungeon overall, that's how it's going to be viewed, even if the DM advice suggests otherwise. The only way to make a massive dungeon like this truly work, IMO, is to present it as a...

I would be very leery of getting rid of that restriction. Having played a high-level fighter with the Sentinel feat, I'm already prepared to claim that it's one of the best/most powerful melee feats in the game. Making it even stronger is almost guaranteed to lead to overpowered, if not broken...

I would be interested. I would, in fact, be far more interested in this than in any other Forgotten Realms product/area. If it's a choice between this and other campaign settings, though, it would really depend on which ones. But yes, it sounds cool.

I was going to mention the escalation die. I haven't imported it yet, because 1) the bounded accuracy of 5E makes it a little too potent, and 2) I'd want to develop a bunch of escalation die-based powers, too. But I'd love to see it happen. There's an AGE-inspired stunts article from some...

Gnomes are secretly multi-planar schemers who are responsible for manipulating many races into all the great conflicts: the Blood War, the elves, the Gith, all of them. Halflings are the only ones who have figured it out, and the gnomes pay them--mostly in food and beer--to keep their mouths shut.

I wish they'd given us both, then. And I, too, very much wish we'd get Anthraxus again, even though I doubt we ever will. People voted wrong, then. :p

That was one of my only real disappointments with the Monster Manual. I get that the yugoloths aren't as iconic as "proper" demons and devils, but they're still supposed to be of equal might. The ultraloths should be at least close to balors and pit fiends in terms of the threat they pose, and...

Are you talking about things like "I, as DM, didn't think about or establish whether or not there's a chandelier in this room. Therefore, when the player asked if there was one to swing from, I decided there was because it was cooler"? If so, I agree. If there's a detail I hadn't already...

Think about secondary effects, too, and what sorts of side plots/stories/quests they can trigger. If the ash darkens the sky for weeks or months or even years, how are the drow or the mind flayers going to react? The former are no longer crippled outside the Underdark, and the latter have been...

Changing up spell lists will (as Tony said) change the aesthetics of a caster, and will change how its played. But it shouldn't introduce balance issues. Obviously, there are outliers here and there. But by and large, a third-level spell is a third-level spell is a third-level spell. They're...

I have to say that while I love what we're seeing, I really hope there's a second page to this guy. Partly because I'm hoping for lair actions, but mostly because I want more than an abbreviated paragraph of lore. I appreciate the fact that the monsters to date have had a substantial amount of...

This is, almost to the letter, what I was going to say.

Completely leaving aside my personal feelings for 4E--positive, negative, and/or otherwise--I think this is untrue for at least one major reason. I don't think 5E would have been quite the phenomenon it was if it hadn't had 4E to, in the eyes of many, "recover from." (To say nothing of the...

I would love to see that list of three expanded, actually. And for all demodands to be made even weirder and more fearsome. The flavor text back in 1E strongly implied that even other fiends were afraid to travel where the demodands dwelt. I loved the idea of a "boogeyman to the Lower Planes,"...

I would love to see that list of three expanded, actually. And for all demodands to be made even weirder and more fearsome. The flavor text back in 1E strongly implied that even other fiends were afraid to travel where the demodands dwelt. I loved the idea of a "boogeyman to the Lower Planes,"...

Which is why the DMG makes such things entirely optional, and suggests the DM roll on only those tables she wants to, or which make sense for the item, as opposed to using all four tables on every item. :)

I saw that. I don't count it. :p

Anthraxus, the Oinodaemon. Okay, he's not obscure if you've been playing since 1E. But he's basically all but vanished, except for a few scattered mentions, ever since. I want him back, I want him scheming, and I want him to be the equal of Asmodeus and Demogorgon, as he once was. (And yes, I...