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We discussed this after CoS - one of my PCs intended to stay and rule Barovia after Strahd's demise. I told him that, inevitably, he or his heirs would be corrupted by the darkness and become a wicked tyrant. And a couple of generations from now, a brave young hero would engage in a quest to...

Well, in theory, one could use the new material by combining it with the Arthaus maps. Depending on how much they changed the domains, of course.

Dementlieu didn't have the strongest focus in the original books, which I felt actually made it better as a campaign region. You could live there and not really grasp the depths of the darkness around you.

I have it, but haven't run it. I don't know how challenging it would be for a 10th level party - I was honestly thinking of starting at 8th. 5th ed. PCs are quite durable. Also, some of the new content is potentially a lot of fun.

Or open it when you're fighting an invisible foe. Levels the playing field - neither of you have advantage or disadvantage any more.

Honestly, I don't think it matters. No one language or creature is going to dominate the adventure in any particular way.

My party fought Strahd on the Overlook - try grappling a PC and throwing them off the edge. I wasn't feeling sadistic and did it to a character who could fly - you, of course, don't have to do that.

One of my players is running a tiefling Twilight cleric when we start Icewind Dale on Wednesday. I might have a Rune Knight but he hasn't committed yet.

In case you haven't heard of it: Slaver Sunflower

I do find it strange that Tasha's suddenly gives sorcerers the bonus spells they should have been getting ever since the Storm Sorcerer saw print and didn't have them (even though it was in the playtest).

Wednesday night has been D&D night for about 30 years now. I used to have other regular games, but now I am old.

I don't understand why WotC is so convinced that, before now, no one ever considered that the PCs might work for someone else. I suspect they're trying to give DMs more tools to get players to follow the plot railroad. But maybe I'm just cynical today.

As someone who was actively playing at the time, I remember it as being a solution to the "armored ranger" problem. Someone felt that rangers in plate mail was badwrongfun, and so decided to incentivize rangers to wear studded leather armor by giving them a benefit that only worked when they...

I once had an ancient faerie dragon wait until a PC had climbed up to their rocky cliff nest, and then polymorph them into a hippopotamus. The fun came in the knowledge that the falling damage was just enough to break the polymorph on impact, without carrying over excessive damage to the PC.

Well if you're going to make me google it again, it's Chaulssin.

I know that temp hit points don't stack, but I'm not clear on this: There's a fighter standing in the divine aura of a Twilight Cleric. This round he gains (say) 10 temporary hit points. On the ogre's turn, he hits the fighter for 17 HP, using up the fighter's temp hp and giving him 7 damage...

There's a whole city in FR that's about a group of drow that bred with shadow dragons for a bloodline. One of my players is using that.

Eat the gods! Seize control of the means of worship and redistribute the prayers to the people!

Check his twitter - he's been commenting on it sporadically. He certainly likes it much better than DiA.

To be fair, it's not the two years of winter, it's the two years of darkness that kills the ecology. But I'm just going with the "it's magic" handwave because I suspect my players don't care.