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Scattered across multiple planes, always in watery areas. There are fragments on the Elemental Plane of Water; the first layer of Mount Celestia (I think that's the layer with the holy ocean, not positive); Dagon's realm in the Abyss; under the Styx in Hades; etc. The highest mountain in...

I'm not a fan of big umbrella corps like Hasbro, period. They're a recipe for dysfunction. Companies generally run a lot better when the executives have a deep understanding of the company's operations. When the company's operations are oriented to a single product or line, it's possible to...

Er... no. Not at all, actually. "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant" is another story of epic struggle against a Big Bad ending in bittersweet triumph. Yes, you've got a self-destructive and generally unpleasant* protagonist, but otherwise it's very much in the LotR mold. The closest thing I can...

Tolkien himself tried and couldn't do it. He started a manuscript titled "The New Shadow," set 100 years after Aragorn's death in the reign of his son: "Then I of course discovered that the King's Peace would contain no tales worth recounting; and his wars would have little interest after the...

The NuTSR saga has been quiet lately. Gotta get my "obnoxious fool in self-inflicted legal train wreck" fix somewhere...

...And now you're a lawyer*. :) *At least, that's the impression I got from your postings during the OGL fiasco -- please correct me if I'm wrong.

Say we assume an average annual cost to Hasbro of $100,000 per employee. (That's not just salary; it also includes benefits, the employer's share of payroll taxes, 401(k) matching, HR and admin, et cetera -- the full cost of keeping someone on the payroll.) Then $9.4 million would cover six...

Iron Dragon 15 (+1) Tungsten Dragon DEAD (-2)

Falling damage is certainly one of the places that really highlights the problem, but I think the main issue is simply with the choice of names. All of the terminology in the game pushes the Arnesonian meat interpretation of hit points, really really hard. When an attack is rolled, it either...

"A group of seven men approaches. They are following the road east, and are making good time, neither tarrying nor running. Their faces are expressionless. One is dressed as a cleric of some sort, and another is dressed as a traveling drummer. The others could be peasants or serfs going from one...

The "ferrous dragons" should consist of iron, steel, pyrite, magnetite, and blood, led by a Ferrotitanium Dragon as the equivalent of Bahamut/Tiamat. (The loyalty of the blood dragons to the Ferrotitanium Dragon would be notoriously unreliable, since hemoglobin switches from ferrous to ferric...

Cobalt Dragon 4 Iron Dragon 16 (+) Tungsten Dragon 4 (-)

Cobalt Dragon 8 Iron Dragon 14 Tungsten Dragon 10 I might have considered one of the others if the title hadn't been "Ferrous Dragons," but since that's the category, I'm voting for the only dragon that actually meets the qualification.

BG3 enforces this. My tomelock lost concentration on Hex several times this way, and it prevents combining Guidance with Enhance Ability from the same caster.

In that case, I think you would have to constrain PCs to 1st- and 2nd-level spells until very high level. At-will Fireball, dealing full damage in its full AoE, is just way too strong. At-will Disintegrate would be OP as hell at any level.

For noncombat spells, it depends a lot on where you want to draw the lines of "Level X characters can do Y." Speak With Dead, for example, could be made available -- at-will or otherwise -- at 1st level, or 9th, or 17th. From a mechanical balance perspective, it doesn't much matter. It's more a...

I'm the only person in my group currently playing BG3. I'm also the DM. I had already planned a mind flayer story arc before BG3 came out, and there are a lot of common elements since we're drawing on the same lore (githyanki and their dragons, cranium rats, etc.). It has forced me to put a lot...

To some extent we already have an answer in the form of warlock invocations: There are quite a few leveled spells, such as disguise self and levitate, that can be made at-will without trouble as long as you keep a tight rein on how many a character can have. This is obviously not something that...

The nice thing about BG3-style magic items is that, even if they miss the window to be included in the 2024 update, they can be put in later. With the runaway success of BG3, I don't think it's going to be forgotten in a year. Personally, I would love to see BG3's elixirs brought into D&D...

As far as Arthurian royalty goes, I'll take Morgan le Fay over Guinevere any day. In a related vein, Medb (or Maeve) of Connacht.