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You may find some perspectives from the 2021 Sage Advice video, starting around 34:03.

Not with an avatar like that!

Non-tiny gnomes are the weird ones! I still want their identity to be "Obsession". Just an absolute fixation on some topic, which can range from protection of a section of forest, to tinkering, to organizing and memorizing everything in a library, or just becoming the master of a specific...

That's a really interesting idea. Midnight needs all the love she can get. I feel like she gets forgotten even though she's been in the seat longer than any other Faerûn goddess of magic IRL, and a campaign that highlights the differences between all three of them would be just fascinating.

I've never tracked ammunition as a player and thought "This is increasing my fun!" Mostly it was a neutral, and sometimes it increased my stress as I worried about running out. You would think it would heighten the tension, but I just never felt that way, it heightened my tension headache...

Sure, unless a previous wish was made to prevent such catastrophic changes. But a short eclipse seems harmless enough.

Curse of Stahd (already a remake), Witchlight (genuinely earns it), and Descent into Avernus (just the Avernus / Elturel part).

Tenser's Final Transformation. May he astrally project to many wondrous planes.

Probably not. It does make me take a really serious and introspective look into my own values in trying to decide what makes a "Kali-adjacent thing" into a Kali-adjacent thing. Like, WHAT specific elements of Kali really invoke Kali and should be put into the monster. Naturally, "It shouldn't...

As someone who sees them as "traditionally Kali", I do tend to see them as female. I intellectually understand that demons have no particular need for sex beyond whatever their personal preference might be, nor do they need to have a set number of arms or skin tone (Shaktari has 8 arms and black...

Remember, nothing says you go Unconscious when sleeping for your Long Rest. :coffee:

It gets even weirder since outsiders don't have organs, unless they need them for some symbolic reason, except in 3.5 when they need to breathe, but you have no idea what they breathe because the atmosphere of various planes can be radically different and/or symbolic as well!

I would bet actual money that the snake woman stuck with Gygax through the years, then he saw the Kali statue battle around the time it came out (1974) and got excited. He slaps the cool new thing (Kali portion) onto the snake woman he liked from before, and BOOM - we get the Marilith a couple...

Honestly, the Marilith is most likely a combination of two famous Ray Harryhausen monsters:

Thou art Kali, Tarini, Durga, Shodashi, Bhuvaneshvari, Dhumavati. Thou art Bagala, Bhairavi, and Chhinna-mastaka. Thou art Anna-purna, Vagdevi, Kama-lalaya. Thou art the Image or Embodiment of all the Shaktis and of all the Devas. Thou art both Subtle and Gross, Manifested and Veiled, Formless...

The first thing on my mental recognition list for Marilith is "Looks like Kali." Then the second thing is "Has a snake tail", but that only kicks in after the first thing. Unrelated, here's the Marilith art from Pools of Darkness!

I honestly wouldn't know this picture is a Marilith unless explicitly told.