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Personally, I would not allow this as a DM since it's four different commands which are unrelated. It's touchy, because the two examples given in the 2024 version of the spell both have multiple parts, just like your example. But they're at least related parts, and thus arguably a single course...

But the word "reasonable" is what makes the spell fun! It was all about convincing the target to do whatever absurd thing you're asking. Saying "hand me your weapon!" is boring. So much better if you have to come up with "Wow, that's the coolest sword I've ever seen. Could I hold it for a...

ORCUS is incredibly impressive, but it isn't a retroclone in the same sense that OSRIC is, because it had to rename and re-do everything. Not only is "Tide of Iron" not in the game, there isn't a class called "Fighter". Legally, you can't do something like Tales of the Valiant or Advanced 5e...

This is kind of the white whale. I don't know that 1e and 2e really mean that much any more, because fans have long since done retroclones of both using the 3e OGL. 4e is the only iteration of D&D where people can't really get under the hood and tinker with it. It would be fascinating to see...

That change was clearly intentional, although I don't like it either. But being intentional, it won't see errata any time soon, if ever.

It's made out of WotC's Dungeon Tiles, which they were pushing hard at the time. There was only one outdoor city set, so that was by gawd what a Dark Sun town square was going to look like. Just like a lot of insane evil cults building their underground shrines suddenly got really obsessed with...

Did you hear what happened to that D&D player when her thief, named Black Leaf, failed to find a poison trap?

Because you're a god among men?? I'm only kidding a little. How? How did you do that in this day and age? I was really proud that I held a group together long enough to run all of the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path, which took about two years. I'm still proud, but 2 is a lot less...

My first reaction is that this is cool. I might feel differently if I'd paid a lot of money for an expensive coffee-table book of D&D art that already had all this stuff in it, but I didn't. So this seems pretty nifty. Is it filler? I think I'd actually need to see the book to determine that...

All that is true, but that's not the only knock against it. Popular D&D blogger The Alexandrian, in his popular series on making good dungeon maps, literally uses Keep on the Shadowfell as his all-time example of bad dungeon layout. It had editing errors and contradictions. Overall it wasn't...

Posters here be like: "If they didn't staple an actual red dragon in the book, I'm not interested".

Completely untrue. They can play any edition, as long as they sculpt the dice out of jasper.

I think it's time you learned to really cast spells. You have the personality for it, now. ( Why yes I do intend to flog this joke to death) Out of curiosity, converted it to what? And why? Keep on the Shadowfell is widely regarded as mediocre at best, so I'm surprised someone would want to run...

Lanefan, get out of here. YOU'RE DEAD! You don't exist any more.

These are clever observations, and I tip my hat to you. But I think in every case you mentioned, there's some other factor that would argue against them counting as "humanoid" for the purpose of Hold Person. A lich certainly has a human-like form, but it's also obviously something else. And if...

In Skerples's magnificent book The Monster Overhaul, he has something really insightful to say about orcs. Quoting, but edited: I think that's brilliant, and very true. The only thing I would add is that either way Orcs are "humanoid" because literally just look up that damn word AUGHHH

I really loved their hip clothing stores in the 80s.

Seriously. Having goblins not count as "humanoid" offends me not just as a player, but as an English teacher. Goblins are the epitome of the concept! If they aren't humanoid, that word has no meaning. And this is not a trivial issue, because the Hold Person spell is now borked. It no longer...

I mean, have you ever seen Crawford and Jack the Ripper in the same place?