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Ooh, an opportunity to discuss politics! I'll content myself with the observation that US schools are among the most highly-funded in the world - but every dollar of school tax goes through many hoops and siphons before some pennies and nickles reach the classroom.

You seem to think that property taxes stop coming when the mortgage is paid off? I do not understand something in your background assumptions.

The Caves of Chaos (in Keep on the Borderlands) can be spread over a few hills instead of down a ravine and get manageable chunks for various levels.

I like the policy that 'the taxable value of your house is the price you bought it for'. Because in Indiana, after the voters put a property tax rate cap into the State Constitution, assessed property values started climbing - just about as fast as the rates had used to be rising.

Depends on where in the US you look. California's permitting process has been made into a bundle of red tape and fees and delays. Indiana in contrast a developer can pretty much buy the next farm along a road into town, plat it as a subdivision, get the permitting OK, and start building (big...

I don't tan, or there is a very short window during which I am tan. I just burn. The first tickle / itch I feel, it's already too late.

If the cloud-dwellers can steer around at will, not just blow on the wind, they can move rain to where it is wanted - or withhold rain from an area until it becomes a sun-baked Dust Bowl. A powerful threat, usually held in the background, for diplomatic / commercial negotiations. Some spells -...

When you asked them, what did they say?

After looking at some Xeroxes I think are from the 3e DMG 2... -President Reagan begins casting a verbal-only incantation / ritual, with a time-delay factor built in- "Mr Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall !" -Five years later, Concrete to Mud and Knock take effect-

One of the classic "the problem with Grognards" complaints is the notion that we expect subservient behavior from everybody else. We don't. We expect you to pick up the game and have fun !

Larry Niven's novels The Integral Trees and The Smoke Ring may prove fruitful for inspiration. edit: DannyAlcatraz beat me to one of the novels.

If it wasn't for we Grognards, all you folks who first discovered D&D since the mid-80's would not have had that opportunity.

Would your players recognize "a black monolith, 1 : 4 : 9, which reflects all probes or rays used to investigate it"?

If you have money-minded players ... THE Outlander background "map in my head" feature PLUS Proficiency in Cartographers Tools PLUS a scroll case and 20 pages of paper PLUS trained in Survival EQUALS that really good map (with the best skill check bonuses) Now for sale at Adventurers Hall to...

Hopelessly obsolete but still-functional equipment. Indiana Jones meets the 20th Century AD, instead of the 20th Century BC. His patron is a private antiquities collector or the Smithsonian Museum.

IIRC*, that would be a 13th-level Fighter? "Don't you remember when I finally trained those men to work together? Their combat prowess was a thing to behold !" * I may not recall correctly.

For Gamma World I created a tree that absorbs ambient radioactivity and stores it in its core. When there is enough, it triggers a pseudo-nuclear reaction and blows the tree's seeds all over the landscape. This is not the problem it sounds like because areas radioactive enough for the tree to...

"Find Pet" Then you have to explain why you get spiders, snakes, frogs, rats, and similar icky animals instead of cats, dogs, hamsters, or goldfish. Hunger of Hadar --> Floor Full of Octopus Tentacles Witch Bolt --> Lesser Lightning Bolt For my 4e Star Pact Warlock, I re-wrote the fluff text...

The PCs stole the one-and-only book that describes Auril's current Big Project and how to mess it up? I think she will come after them for vengeance and to get it back for "safekeeping". Set the battle in some evocative Frozen Tundra terrain (3e supplement Frostburn has ideas) under the...

There is a real-time example of the "Should I read the thread?" phenomenon happening in the "D&D Beyond cancels art contest" thread. Read that OP and take your guess at what the problem is. Then get into the body of the thread and see if you were right. (I was not.)