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It was a spell, IIRC. And it's a spell that still exists in 5E.

It's a little off-topic, but I have to disagree with this. 1) Gods weren't required in 3E or 4E, either. 2) While there's technically no alignment restriction, the requirements of the Oath of Devotion (which is the "standard" paladin of prior editions) comes pretty close to enforcing Lawful...

Hmm. It's a tough call, as I enjoy creating items specifically for a given player or campaign. I think one of the most impactful was a wand that randomly granted a benefit--maybe the spell was cast at a higher level, or there was a penalty to the save, or whatever--but one of the random options...

Never having played the BG games (yeah, I know), what was the difference?

Whereas I preferred it when the two of them were just a high-powered Duke of Hell and a high-powered demon lord, and neither were proper deities. (And yes, I know it's kind of splitting hairs, since some Dukes and demon lords were effectively gods, but still.) But then, I also preferred Tiamat...

Let's not pretend that elementary school kids haven't already received enormous amounts of cultural conditioning where gender is concerned. Every well-meaning relative who buys pink and frilly clothes for girls vs. little sports jerseys for boys; every cartoon modeled toward one or the other...

"Yeah, it was when I realized the dwarf was so dense he was generating his own measurable gravity that I realize something might be a bit off..."

Oh, here's another that I've mentioned before. I had no idea how numbered maps worked. So when I tried to run a one-on-one game with a friend, using Keep on the Borderlands, I just gave him the map as a flavorful handout and had him encounter every area in the module in numerical order. Then I...

I know a lot of us got into D&D--whatever edition--when we were pretty young. And I know that many of us, as kids, pretty foolishly misunderstood some fundamental aspect of the game. ;) I cut my teeth on the Red Box, which only had Lawful, Neutral, and Chaotic as alignments. So when I switched...

She mops the floor with either of them. But then, her CR is 4 higher than theirs. It takes a little bit longer than it otherwise might, due to their damage resistances/immunities, but barring an incredible stroke of luck, or some truly unwise decisions on her part, it's pretty close to a sure...

While these are both true, there are two problems: 1) This isn't something that a lot of newer players know, and 2) Demogorgon being at a disadvantage (let alone not being superior) in a straight stat block match-up is a change from previous editions and existing lore. So I understand why it...

Well. That's... certainly a hole in my logic, and something I shouldn't have missed. Argle. I mean, Demogorgon isn't burning legendary actions on his gaze if Orcus is looking away that round, obviously, so he's getting another attack in, but... You're absolutely right that at those bonuses...

So, I agree that Demogorgon's stat block is a bit weak for the Prince of Demons. (I'm particularly irked that he doesn't get two turns in a round, like he used to in some prior editions.) And the whole "summon 500 hp of undead once/day" thing throws everything out of whack. However, if...

Holy. Crap. Caliban, that's better and more interesting to me than the vast majority of published setting cosmologies. I want to see this in a book at some point, and there's every chance I may steal it wholesale for a home campaign at some point.

:eek: Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!

Oh, it's all connected, absolutely. And hormones play a big part of it. My point, however, was that it's not all societal/cultural, or upbringing, or chromosomal, and certainly not all based on genitalia. That there are real, proven, scientific reasons for gender dysphoria and other potential*...

And suddenly I want to get together with another player and create a pair of siblings: one, a sorcerer, who inherited great-grandma's magic; the other a warlock, who didn't, and--seething with envy over it--tracked great-grandma down and made a deal.

And suddenly I want to get together with another player and create a pair of siblings: one, a sorcerer, who inherited great-grandma's magic; the other a warlock, who didn't, and--seething with envy over it--tracked great-grandma down and made a deal.

There is a biological component to most aspects of identity, gender included. But it's in the brain, not the body. They've recently done tests--I forget precisely which tests, so I won't make a guess and risk obscuring my actual point--which show that the brains of trans individuals tend to...

Okay, that's fair. But IIRC, the PHB also makes a point of saying that campaigns are different, and check with your DM. Players should be allowed to play what they want more often than not, but it's not a hard-and-fast rule, and they need to accept that there will be exceptions. And that is...