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"This gift reminds me that I must make tracks for the Duke's castle soon, if I am to there by springtime for the wedding," mused Tippy. "Yet we are far away in this strange land. Can we get home by plane-hopping?" This last question was addressed to Ha! and she thoughfully juggled her three...

Something was wrong. Tippy knew something was wrong. Johnny was brooding about something, but it wasn't that. The wizard had his head in a book, as usual, but it wasn't that. Tasha seemed happy enough, honing her halberd and singing quietly to herself. It wasn't that. Albert was nowhere to be...

Okay, I'll try to keep the thread warm. Maybe Lanefan can throw me a few "unexpected developments"? Or anybody else? It doesn't hurt, I promise ...

And exactly one of the characters has to be a rules lawyer.

Maybe it sometimes cuts to a DM behind a screen, who has memorable catch-phrases like "*Evil Cackle*", "Roll for Initiative" and "Are you sure you want to do that?" Print those on the merchandise (T-shirts, mugs, fluffy DM dolls, ...) and you're home and dry.

The plan was this ... Inannyunot would keep the storm going for as long as possible to keep the cultists disorganised. Tasha, Johnny, Albert, the four utterwolves and the hobgoblin would spread out around the periphery of the storm, ready to make melee attacks on any individual cultists who...

Mishak returned to cult headquarters in the Temple of Aššur and told High Priest Balthak what had happened. The news that four demons and four angels had apparently teamed up was extremely worrying, because according to the dogma they were supposed to be on opposite sides and if this was some...

Of course the rats are hostile. They've been kept in a smelly sack and carried around for days being bumped about together with practically nothing to eat. They aren't just hostile, they are downright livid. Try all the buttons? Except the blue one. Don't tap the bl ...

If you multiply the XP awarded to the players to allow for monster numbers, and if the players know that you will be doing it, a cunning player can use a "bag of rats" ploy to work the system. On encountering three monsters, say, with a multiplier of x2, the PC drops a bag of 8 rats to inflate...

Fixed up. As Johnny listened to the voice it occurred to him to try seeing if he could pry out the gems to sell them. As he fiddled with the statuette's eyes, there was a click and the voice changed subtly - it started telling a story. But it was a crazy story about people he didn't know and...

The party composed themselves and wandered north towards the dead sea............. ... and they hadn't gone far when they heard the sound of chanting from somewhere up ahead and a group of three swarthy men appeared around a bend in the road. They were dressed in kilted robes covered in...

< Tippy > With the help of Lezzdra, Tippy and his friends reached one of the secret magic portals that take drow raiding parties to the surface world. Lezzdra, still much affected by GlibbleFleep's music, begged the ghast to stay in the drow city with her, where she would arrange for him to...

< Johnny, ClaW and Ha! > ... approaching down the tunnel towards them came his very own familiar. It was ... ... an elderly wizard with a knobbly staff, a pointy hat, a long beard and an absent-minded expression. At first he seemed to be a tall man a very long way off but as he got nearer it...

16) Play 5e. Unless I've missed a book, Kender don't exist and never have.

< Ha! > And so evading and avoiding many horse patrols Ha! Was assisted by the bard Alana Dale and the druid Ma Rihan...... She was taken to a hidden campsite deep in the forest, beside a running stream. Oddly, although there was plenty of activity, she saw no camp fires and no sign of food...

< Tippy > Lezzdra was annoyed. By Lolth, she was annoyed. Well, you would be if you had been captured, bound and gagged by a bunch of surface-dwellers who had slaughtered your guard-slaves for no good reason. If anyone was going to slaughter her slaves, it should be her, not some house-less...

< Johnny > Johnny felt he needed a long rest to recover completely from his mauling so they found an out-of-the-way cave to sleep in. His utterwolves obligingly provided living fur blankets for him and his hobgoblins while Claw and the skeletons kept watch. It was a good arrangement. They were...

I read that as "you would need a bridge book for each setting, equivalent to a Xanathar's Guide (which is generic) but setting-specific." Are people reading it as "Xanathar is for a specific setting"?

You are camped outside the ruins of Luskan. A mysterious Ranger ... Oh, I see what you mean. No doubt there will be optional starting points so you can get there if you've just finished LMoP, or starting from new Level 1-3 characters somewhere in Chult near a suitable village with a haunted...

Tippy was saddened to see Claude go. He could summon a new familiar, of course, but it wouldn't be the same - they had been through a lot together. Besides, Claude still had his boomerang. A thought occured to him, and he got out his divining sticks. "Goat," he called, "Have you got a copy of...