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Other than the $10,000 they were each paid for creating their setting bibles, you mean? Winner got $100K. Two and three got $10K. That may not make you rich, but it's not nothing, especially in this industry.

This. One of the single best combat set pieces I've ever run, in any edition (it was 3.5), was a running battle on the lightning rail, with the rail (traveling at full speed) and the PCs being attacked by Emerald Claw on flying carpets, and their leader on a nightmare. Any Eberron adventure...

Well, normally the dagger was either a last-ditch backup weapon, or used to finish off a fallen opponent once you had time/opportunity to get in at the armor joints. But yes, there would need to be some balancing mechanic. I'd be inclined to keep it simpler: just as there's already a feat for...

Christ, I have trouble remembering last week! Being quoted from two and a half years ago is brain-warping. :eek: (But--after reading back to remind myself what the context of this was--I still prefer random recharge to momentum. ;) )

"We're a committed adventuring party. We practice poly-armory."

A while back, I was playing a cleric of St. Cuthbert in a friend's campaign. The campaign itself kind of went off the rails, but my primary character shtick was: Any time we'd encounter anything significant (a monster, an event, whatever), or any other time it felt appropriate, I would ask the...

May I humbly suggest that you're coming at the question from different campaign styles? In a sandbox or a series of adventures, yeah, an adventurer who's still "reluctant" after the first adventure or two is going to be a pain. But a lot of campaigns--such as many of the adventure paths--are...

Project, much? There's zero such social pressure in my group. We are absolutely an "interesting concept over optimization" group. We've had players choose a truly suboptimal combination of multiclasses (just for instance) during higher-than-first-level character creation, and not only is there...

Assuming an intelligent foe, give them a reason to take the PCs alive. Slaves. Ransom. A later meal. Information. Then make an adventure out of the PCs finding their way out. Alternatively, you can have an outside force, such as an ally the PCs made earlier, step in. You shouldn't do that...

I hate to say it--because I love Demogorgon, and I love most of what I've read of MToF--but the more I look at it, the more I feel like Demogorgon just isn't up to snuff in 5E. First off, he's among the least interesting of the Demon Lords in terms of combat. Nearly all of them have really...

Heh. Incarceration would be preferable. These modrons twist/warp/break humanoids, compressing them into shapes--caged with their own bones, which are coated in metals--to create new modrons. The agony of the process, while "unfortunate," is part of what destroys the mind, allowing them to be...

It was actually inspired by a conversation here on ENWorld. I wish I could remember who sparked the idea; I'd be happy to give credit.

Let us also remember that one of the upcoming adventures WotC just announced goes to high-levels--all the way to 20 IIRC, though I could be mistaken--so there'll be an example to draw from soon enough.

Wow. That would be a seriously item-heavy campaign right there.

I'm not a modron fan. Never have been. More or less hate them, in fact. The only way I've found to use them is to alter what they are. (For instance, in one of my forthcoming campaigns, they're basically the Borg, trying to convert everything into a purely lawful, static state.) But... If this...

There's definitely an "Optimus Primus passed the Matrix on to Rodimus Primus" joke here somewhere...

Isn't it? I mean, let's say you're right in your interpretation of 5E alignments. The behavioral requirements of the paladin (at least the Devotion paladin) haven't changed. The tenets of the Oath pretty firmly match what LG was in prior editions. What's changed, then, is not the paladin, but...

Sure, a Chaotic Good character could act that way, some or even most of the time. But the code makes references to not lying, and to obeying "just authority." Someone who lives by those tenets even if their conscience might permit otherwise under certain conditions, or when doing so is not the...

I do like the idea of a subclass that includes shifting into a plant or plant creature, and I would love the warp/shape wood spells back. But everything else in that list is something druids can already do in 5E.

Honestly, I tend to feel like rituals belong in an S&S game more than most other forms of D&D magic. The long, complex ceremony being the primary (or even only) form of functional magic is quite common in S&S tales.