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Players who are caught up with snacks, jokes, recap, etc. and ready to go at start time, get a bonus to their character's initiative rolls. If a player arrives painfully late, then their character may get a penalty to initiative, at DM discretion.

Shift those numbers for the additional category of "Roll again, twice, and apply both results". The spell "Gygax's Tabular Doom" causes the target to turn to a random page of the 1E DMG, roll on whatever table appears on that page, and apply the result. The most amusing result I ever saw was...

FWIW he has neither confirmed nor denied, so far, whether he's actually that guy who walked out of Dave Arneson's first Blackmoor session, in 1970, on the grounds that his character's only reason for going deeper into the dungeon was for the players to enjoy Dave's scenario, and he refused to...

Run those, and then give them a sandbox day. Whatever they do, in that one day, will give you seeds.

Have you ever gamed with Saelorn?

If the elf PC, at WarpedAcorn's table, has the drow sub-race, then your angle has even more interesting opportunities for where the story might go. I disagree with you about chaotic alignment and random arbitrary shifts of direction. Robin Hood is classic Chaotic Good; that doesn't mean he'll...

I'm not asking whether Saelorn debated Arneson *on EnWorld* in 1971. That would be silly. I'm asking whether Saelorn argued with Arneson, face to face, in the laundry room of Arneson's basement, in Lake Geneva, during or shortly after the game session in question. That was the first time, so far...

Was this argument in progress during 4E, and has it carried over into 5E? When did it start? Saelorn, did you argue with Dave Arneson after the first session of Blackmoor, because he had the blob monster's initial ambush kill an NPC, rather than give it an equal chance of one-shotting a PC?

As you demonstrated with your canonical texts, the core books of D&D establish that the orcs got a raw deal, and *only then* turned against elves and dwarves. If you wanna play otherwise, if YOU wanna change the core assumptions, then discuss that with your players; it's your table.

And wings!

I've read Churchill's book on the endgame of World War II. Even before the fall of Berlin, Stalin was positioning forces for immediate follow-up. Churchill's attempts to persuade FDR that "Uncle Joe" might act in bad faith, were as unsuccessful as Churchill's attempts, from 1932 to 1938, to...

That you would represent Christianity so inaccurately, and then claim parallels to Gruumsh, is telling. Have you *ever* been wrong? Is there *any* topic on which you don't have absolute and infallible answers?

I agree. The elven and dwarven gods took everything for themselves, with no regard for others. That's how the PHB defines "evil". I see no shades of grey in this story: they committed an evil action, and Gruumsh reacts as a Paladin of Vengeance. First they took all the lands, without...

The existence of brass and bronze dragons suggests that long ago, copper dragons interbred with tin dragons and zinc dragons. No living mortal has seen them, no surviving records describe them, but perhaps a green dragon could become one?

There's significant gaps in your understanding of Christianity. I suspect that you haven't read Parker's essay on the transient and the permanent, for example. This leaves me disinclined to accept you as an undisputed authority on the relationship between Gruumsh, Corellan, and their respective...

Every school of theology can close, now that you've explained the nature of the Divine, settling the question for all time.

George Orwell examined many of the same events from a different angle; I find the comparison interesting.

All the world's a stage?

I'm not saying I agree, but at least you're picking two examples, which others might know directly, and drawing a line with those two examples as reference points. From there, a useful conversation *could* ensue, if anyone can demonstrate that the difference in background material between those...

This spell was SO much better in 4E.