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The last time I had a situation where retreat was the best course, most of the party didn't listen to me and it was a TPK. Those of us who actually tried to retreat got downed by OAs.

I mean that's probably fair given my sample size is one. It just annoyed me as a player that, per the DM, the adventure path for WOTR specifies that you absolutely cannot

Hm... I haven't had any instances of this at all, though I haven't started DMing a new game since well before BG3 launched.

In my experience, WOTC adventures hide the railroading by having certain things occur no matter what the PCs do, whereas Paizo adventures just railroad you by giving you no other options.

Oh I thought you were 'eww'ing the idea of making D&D adventures more like Pathfinder Adventure Paths.

I mean you say 2E was low magic but I remember how ungodly full of magic items my BG/BG2 party inventories were. Or how every Vodoni Enforcer in Under the Dark Fist has a +1 longsword.

Honestly 5E is still a successor to 4E in some important ways... even if sometimes that means specifically rejecting 4Eisms that arguably should have been kept. Unless you mean something else that shouldn't be named? How familiar are you with 3E and 4E? Because something you have to understand...

Not sure the timeline there works. Was Dark Sun ever planned for 5E (outside blowing it up in Spelljammer)? Because the Mystic UA happened nearly a decade ago now. I think Psionics is one of the big roadblocks to Dark Sun. The other of course being that corporate is likely to be terrified of of...

In practice 4E plays a lot like low to mid level 3E at the table. Building a character is a different beast entirely because there's no/few trap options depending on your source so it's not really feasible to make useless or super OP characters.

In all honesty if I were going to have a party go to Arcadia I'd probably condense it, Bytopia, and Elysium into different layers or regions of a single plane. Current idea is a hollow world, the outside being the Elysian Fields and Arcadia in the eastern and western hemispheres, while the...

Thanks for sharing, Punk. As an aside I've had Star-crossed Seaway bookmarked for a long time... should probably give it a watch at some point.

I noticed that two members of my current party have Circle of Death prepared so I decided to throw them an easy curve with an upcoming encounter.

It really couldn't be a paradise without video games.

Aside from the debacle with the VTT, 4E had really good online tools for the time. The Insider monster tool worked so much better than D&D Beyond's homebrew monster creation and could even take a creature and level it up or down or change it from a standard to an elite or solo.

Not to advocate piracy but why is that certain third party tools are so much better organized than WOTC's own stuff.

One funny thing I could think of is to use Slight of Hand to replace a material component for the spell they're about to cast with a different one and cause the spell to fail or do something weird due to having the wrong component. Good luck casting fireball when I replace your sulfur with a...

There's far less text for each monster in the new book, similar to how MPMM cut down a lot of the monster lore from Tome of Foes and VGM. More statblocks and more/bigger art instead.

Thanks to the show Joan of Arcadia I generally imagine it looking like a small town in Maryland.

On one level I think that's only a natural consequence of 'demon' and 'devil' being common words for fiendish enemies whereas Yugoloth is a made-up word with non of its kind even in the SRD. But for individual games, it depends on how important the Blood War is to the campaign. I kind of prefer...