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The rule that allows characters to be Lawful Evil if they are members of the Zhentarim or Lords' Alliance has been dropped, suggesting that evil characters are no longer legal in AL. Also, the 'Creating a Character' section specifically states that you create a new level 1 character "for use in...

Not sure I buy the idea that Yoda would only be a Knight during the time frame of the movie. In Episode V, Yoda says to Luke, "For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi." The idea that he'd have been training Jedi for over three centuries and still only be a Knight seems unlikely, even though...

I think this is an interesting way to look at the differences between previous editions and 5e, though I have Thoughts. I think, generally speaking, you're right. Classic 'meatgrinder' dungeons might do well in lists of all-time best modules, but they're also highly polarizing. It's hard to...

Good discussion of your position. My $0.02US... I'm not sure I agree that 3/4e had classes that were all fun to play -- instead, what you had was a bunch of barbarian concepts that were pretty boring/bog-standard, and a few who were insanely fun for the right kind of player because they broke...

I haven't read Dragon Heist, so don't know if the other details in the module would support this idea, but I kind of like the idea of using a session one TPK as a prelude to a short, 'The Sting' style campaign. Session one, the party ends up somewhere they really shouldn't be, encounters the...

I've seen a couple of references to intellgence as a shorthand for education, and I'm not sure I agree with that assessment -- after all, many people have access to education, and the relative success or failure that any individual accomplishes with their own education seems to me to have as...

If the hook of the campaign is "Romans conquer Forgotten Realms because their gods work better", what's the role of the PCs in the campaign? As a setting concept, there is some interesting potential here, but if it turns out to basically play as "run old FR modules only with the Greco/Roman...

I think you're missing the point of how this is meant to work. Based on the original essay (and most of the other discussion I've read of the concept), the X card is meant to allow players to non-verbally express their distaste for the content of a given scene. The idea is that the tapping of...

I'm putting together a one-shot for Halloween, crossing over a couple of gaming groups. We're playing Observer Effect, and one of the players is a working physicist! So maybe some errata for the module after it's over? -- Pauper

I can see having a list of horrifying yet humorous admonitions on an 'Evil Overlord' list -- the 'evil' is right there in the title, after all. But as a list of things for the hero to do? Many of these are frightening and close to fascistic, like 4 ("I am justice when Necessary"? Funny how it...

Spoiler alert: pretty sure Mearls and Crawford didn't do any research before publishing the D&D rules on hiding and the description of the Invisibility spell. So it all starts with them, really. Sounds good, now that I got the last word in. ;) -- Pauper

True, I didn't do any physical experiments with flour and invisible creatures. But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.. And watched "Hollow Man" on the hotel TV. (Not a great movie, but has some imaginative visual effects surrounding the main villain's invisibility schtick.) -- Pauper

If we're playing TOON, sure -- poof! The room fills with "flour fog", which you can still inexplicably see through to find the 'hole'. There's the problem -- if you have enough flour in the air to detect an invisible creature by where the flour isn't, the remaining flour in the air is likely...

Queen Raedra. Born in 1460 DR to Irvel Obarskryr (son of King Foril) and Ospra Goldfeather. The book has a partial genealogy of the royal family of Cormyr right at the start, after the dedication, tracing the line of the crown from Azoun IV through Raedra's generation. I call it 'partial'...

This is a pretty good analogy, but I'd go in a slightly different direction. A typical TTRPG, regardless of structure, is like a jazz band, and the DM/GM's role is to be the bass player -- to provide the baseline against which the other players riff and help construct the 'music' of the play...

See, this just increases the dumb, IMO. So you've got a handful of flour and you throw it in the air; if it sticks to an invisible creature, you can now see it where the flour hangs in the air? So where does this come in: "Anything the target is wearing or carrying is invisible as long as it...

Yeah, and Frodo kicked the poor Balrog's...oh, wait. That was Gandalf who did that. And he was stacked! He had his Cloak of Protection +3 and his Robe of the Archmagi and an Ioun Stone of...wait, he didn't have any of that? Oh, but he had a kick-ass magical sword! That...wasn't actually...

Why would a marilith need a magical weapon, especially if its 'normal' attacks already count as magical for bypassing resistances? You're making a presumption -- magic weapons are cool, thus everyone cool needs a magic weapon -- that isn't necessarily supported in the setting or game design...

Apparently nobody in this thread ever played or ran N2: The Forest Oracle. Probably a good thing, too. Here's my $0.02 US, focusing only on adventures I've played, run, or read: Favorite adventures, non-D&D category: - Festival of the Damned, Ars Magica (even more impressive as it's a sequel...

I could see where this would be useful to mitigate some of the frustration that comes with rolling a great damage roll but not getting enough on the d20 to get a hit. I suspect you'd have to just use the base weapon damage die, though, because if you add in things like Sneak Attack and the...