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Trees of Fantasy 3.5 Lich: ? Bone Spruce Skeleton: This wooden skeleton can be animated with an animate dead spell as if it were a humanoid skeleton. Bone Spruce wood is highly prized by necromancers, because wood harvested from the tree can be animated as per the animate dead spell...

Not to mention 5e 14 MM presenting them as big-nosed, short, and white but despicable and greedy not humans for those encountering goblins in D&D for the first time. 5e 14 MM Page 165: "Goblins are small, black-hearted, selfish humanoids" "Motivated by greed and malice, goblins can't help but...

In my 3e games I offered gestalt as options at character creation, an eight point hit on point buy stats could get you gestalt with an NPC class. A sixteen point hit could get you a full gestalt. Seemed a reasonable tradeoff to me given the importance of stats in 3e and how power for both MAD...

The closest that comes to mind for D&D is psionic things from the far realms and the far realms being outside of the multiverse, but even then you have countervailing stuff like 4e PC psionics being the Primal/natural world immune reaction to the far realms' outside the universe virus. The...

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There is a bit of a definitional issue/quirk with the supernatural. If there is supernatural stuff it is part of that universe and so not stuff that breaks the natural laws of that universe. It only breaks our understanding of the laws of our universe. Psionics and magic are in accord with the...

I hate in world calendars with different names for days and months and such, it is just something I don’t want to have to remember in my head like translating to a different language. I like quirky little cultural details like a PC of a dwarf in my game came up with the fact that dwarves who...

AD&D by design was also to sometimes have a level spread of a level or two in a party with their different xp charts per class and with multiclassing splitting xp among the multi classed classes. It was part of the character design balance for the different options.

My experience as a crafter heavy wizard one level behind with more half price wands, miscellaneous items, and scrolls of my choice in a 3.5 game was not as an appendage to the party. The hit of being down a caster level for lightning bolts and spell slots and a spell level every other level...

I felt 4e solo monsters worked well. They were generally designed well to do so. It was a disappointment to not have that good design in 5e, though it is easy enough to add in on your own (hp multiplied by number of pcs, area attacks instead of single target ones, resist stun lock type...

Increasing some powerful species traits to be +1 CR seems a very simple manageable way to do a template that will not break CR. The problem with 3e templates was a lot of high CR adjustments would create imbalanced glass cannons as their core combat stats of attack bonuses and AC and hp and...

The Wurst of Grimtooth's Traps 3.5 Poltergeist: ? Poltergeist, Ghost, Spirit, Phantom: ? Ghost: ? Warrior's Ghost: ? Evinrood, Shade, Spirit: ? Ingenious and Very Lazy Vampire: ? Vampire, Gentleman of Strange Demeanor: ? Vampire, Girl: ?

They are fey now.

I feel very familiar with 3.5 and PF1e Golarion, less so with new details from PF2e Golarion. I have things like the giant 2e Garund sourcebook as a PDF, but I have not read it yet. In my homebrew mashup setting that I ran paizo APs in using PF1e and 5e I use a lot of Golarion mashed up with a...

My favorite is the Nutcracker. My sympathies are with the Rat King though.

The Road to Monsterberg, Secret of the Golden Hills 3.5 Gertruda, Ghost: There are a number of popular legends associated with the mine. There is a ghost named Gertruda who was the wife of a miner lost during an accident in the mine. She went looking for him in the mine after the cruel owners...

I find the AI assistant in adobe reader very intrusive and slows everything down when I try and do a search in a pdf. Very annoying.