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Right- a dm knowing and following the rules. Players have no business reading monster books, frankly. That's one of my objections to the new type changes- they overturn decades of players' knowledge with no good way for a player to know in advance that isn't completely based on out of game...

I think characterizing a DM actually knowing and following the rules as "horrid" and "fockery" is a profoundly weird take, verging on ridiculous. I expect my dms to basically know and follow the rules. I wouldn't expect them to allow charm person to work on a non-Humanoid. That's expecting...

Don't make me get on my "they changed all the Humanoids to other types!" horse again.

Just started Sanderson's most recent Stormlight Archive book, Wind and Truth.

Whenever it has come up in my game (e.g. when I need to award xp for defeating a pc-style foe), I always used the monster creation guides to evaluate pcs types on an individual basis. I don't think you can really have a good rule of thumb if not all pcs are optimized for combat. The difference...

I guess? I don't know, I remember awesome articles in Dragon Magazine about how different the nonhuman races/species were, with lots of pointers on how to play it up, and my players always leaned into that kind of thing. Maybe I'm just a grumpy old man, but this really seems like a more modern...

Apparently many modern gamers view species options as just packets of abilities, rather than actual alien, nonhuman cultures- "humans with forehead ridges," if you will. I am definitely more of a "let's play up how different the different species are" kind of guy. I like my dwarves to be...

Perhaps the Attorney General of London?

Streiiiiiiisand, oh Streisand, how could I possibly learn your lesson?

It didn't piss me off, speaking as a 4e fan, and one of my players really enjoyed using the HotFL wizard. I think the reason that the sales were bad was that 4e had already gotten people in an uproar and most people had already made up their mind that 4e was awful. If it had dropped a year...

It doesn't need to be, but some people like them, and there's no reason it shouldn't be.

Well- first of all, it isn't just a series of rooms with monsters to fight. An awesome dungeon should have mysteries to be unraveled through exploring it, interesting features including traps, secret areas, weird elements, and tricks, often factions that can be interacted with to set them...

I'll just agree to disagree. I think alphabetizing the monsters is a big improvement in organization. I do think it would be good to have a "Demon" entry that includes general notes on demons; however, in most cases, such as aberrations or oozes, there really aren't a lot of notes that apply to...

Man, the 2024 ruleset has a really weird mix of leaning away from the lore that was already established (most creatures) and leaning in to new lore (e.g. aberrations are now all Far Realms-linked, goblinoids are now Fey, etc). I miss 2e's "Habitat/Society" and "Ecology" entries.

It helps anyone who doesn't know what an obscure monster is, if that monster is found under some heading other than its name. Not that these are in the MM, but it helps anyone who doesn't know that a deathdrinker is a demon, anyone who doesn't know that a paelyrion is a devil, anyone who...

You're doing an awful lot of "my preferences are teh right way to play" in this thread. The truth is more that your preferences are the right way to play for you.

My experience, which also involves many dms and players, differs substantially from yours. Dungeons are common; megadungeons, while not common, are far from unheard of. I think part of the difference probably arises from experience. When members of a group encounter an awesome dungeon, they...

In the last week or week and a half, I have torn through Half a King and Half a World and am now working on Half a War, all by Joe Abercrombie- a trilogy not (AFAIK) related to his Blade Itself books. They're pretty great- light reading but really fun. Abercrombie is generally very enjoyable...

Possessed pc falls into pit.

I honestly don't remember a lot of stuff in Age of Worms referencing any GH metaplot or events that took place post-576 CY, but it has been quite a while since I read or ran any of it. I think you could pretty much run it as is and be fine, but may be overlooking some stuff. There is the one...