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First, the DMG statement that the Feywild is supposed to be in perpetual "twilight" is wrong, because twilight is defined as the light from the sun when it is already below the horizon. The Feywild descriptions speak of a sun that is visible and low on the horizon. So, the Feywild is supposed...

I change skywrite to 4th level and sending to 5th level, because I believe they otherwise are too world-changing.

Definitely. If you want to put your players through Baator, you're going to go through Baator doing it. ...but it's worth it once in a blue moon for a suitably epic brawl. However I'm also of the school that thinks that (other than in 4e) high level play doesn't really work for the same sort...

I totally want the players to have fun and win, because if they aren't having fun I won't be either. It does go the other way though, and my multiverse is like my own PC with an identity, consistency, etc that needs to be respected for me to have fun (so that the players can have it in this...

Sure, but the closer I stick to what is published, the less work I have to do in that area, and the more time I have to devote to other parts of the campaigns I run. I want the fluff I have in the books to do the work for me. It's an encyclopedia, an atlas, etc, that I don't have to spend time...

I don't know, the changes to the Forgotten Realms make any official 5e FR lore that comes out suspect to me. If I were an expert in the lore maybe I would know enough to immediately recognize and ignore what is based on changes that happened after my last point of official synchronization...

Off the top of my head, the current official optional/variant rules I use are: -Multiclassing (discouraged though) -Feats -Skills with alternate ability scores -Healer's kit dependency for short rest healing -Slower natural healing (the one where you regain half HD but no hit points on a long...

In this case, I wonder if it's based on his professional relationship with the current IP holder, and a desire to keep that positive.

Thanks, makes sense.

I've been a stickler for it for a long time, for the reason that was brought up: balance. So there is regular dropping weapons and picking them back up. I am getting rather sick of that (even though no one has lost a weapon because of it), and have house rules that you can switch a weapon to...

Interesting. I wonder how much of WotC's lore Ed chooses to use himself I never did read Elminster's Forgotten Realms, but it seems surprising to me that he would accept major revisions to Baldur's Gate. Is the Spellplague even "Greenwood canon"?

Unless 4e+5e made some massive changes, Baldur's Gate isn't even close to the largest city in Faerun. Not even in the running. Waterdeep is the biggest city on the Northern Sword Coast, and generally seen as "the" metropolis, but I think Calimport may actually be bigger. There are also other...

That's similar to one category of my many attempts. I think the balance is fairly good, but after I came up with it I realized what I didn't like about it was it still left characters further behind in their class features for most of their career than was satisfying to me (based on my AD&D...

My thoughts on multiclassing are complicated. On the one hand, I don't really care for 3e style multiclassing (and by extension, 5e style multiclassing). 3e multiclassing is usually a way to mechanically optimize for power builds, and I don't care to play that way most of the time. I discourage...

Thanks Quickleaf! Here are my notes from the video. There were 8 players with 6th-level characters and one manticore. The sequence of events was: -They started with a few minutes of introductions, followed by what amounted to a summary of a (non-existent) session that got them to their...

Expect the book to have a plenty of "here's how to make a new plane/planar location". Unless that toolkit design pattern that started a few years ago has gone away.

I wish those 20-30 page adventures were still a thing. That's my foundational experience, so it's how it's "supposed to be" for me. A campaign is years of play with approximately the same players and characters where you mix a combination of homebrew material with drop in adventures of an...

I've also wondered about this. I haven't watched a lot of streams, but I've never seen one where the game (at least, a D&D game) moves as fast as people report. I believe them, but I would love to actually see it. Let me be direct. Are you any of you who run it that fast willing to put it up...

I'm not sure exactly how I'd redo the spell, but I think the phrasing "...creature's current and maximum hit points are reduced by..." has a lot of merit. It does damage "legally" in 5e-ese while getting around all the ways to actually resist taking damage. I'd keep it Instantaneous and just...

I got that one a year ago, so if was added in February it must have gone down and come back up. Further unhappy evidence that that the first two just missed the boat and will never show up.