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First, I homebrew all of the monster statblocks I ever use for my campaigns. Second, my dragons don’t have wings and can’t fly. They make up for this with boatloads of condition immunities, damage resistances/immunities, and a number of other things too. So, how do I like my dragons? Boss...

I knew I had seen something similar years ago, but couldn’t remember where! Thank you!

It’s rather different, but here’s one I used in my Eberron campaigns. The guy playing the warlock in that game got really concerned when his previous patron revealed that its goal was to destroy the Church of the Silver Flame and replace it with a particularly nasty Cult of the Dragon Below. I...

Star Frontiers and Gamma World.

Not to my knowledge. They were also quite bulky. Here’s an example of ssuran art from 4e:

Nightmare Beasts, Ssurans (which look more like 2e dray if you ask me), Thri-Kreen, and Braxats. All Dark Sun monsters. I’m now fully convinced that Dark Sun is this year’s cameo and I really hope they release Dark Sun next year.

Heat metal doesn’t impose disadvantage if the target succeeds on the saving throw. Enervation is a 3rd level spell, not a 5th.

From my Dark Sun campaigns, this one always causes my players to giggle ecstatically: Tyrian Iron Longsword +1 to hit 2d6 + STR modifier force damage. Two-handed 2d8 Minor Benefit: as a bonus action, this weapon can destroy objects of magical force, such as a wall of force or forcecage. Major...

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Agreed. My own Dark Sun campaign focuses less on slavery specifically and more on how the sorcerer-kings and their templars use violence and defiling magics to terrorize both their own subjects, rival city-states, and the independent tribes that live out in the desert. I mean, when you think...

I’m hoping for Dark Sun next year, but I fully expect it to be Planescape (which I dislike). As for this current year, I’m really looking forward to the upcoming Dragonlance adventure.

Frost salamanders

I spent three years of my childhood in southeast Turkey. 70 degrees Fahrenheit was unheard of (except at night after the sun went down), and the whole place was a desert where literally everything outdoors was this gray-brown color. There was a prehistoric ruin just outside town that had been...

It has ALL the dragons. Okay, maybe not actually, but you know what I mean.

Me too! Setting aside my excitement at seeing a Dark Sun creature (YAY!!), It’s nice to see that the Yggdrasti is D&D’s answer to Pathfinder’s Sard. In Pathfinder, sards were basically faerie trees that got struck by lightning and decided the best thing to do in response was to uproot...

OH GOD, I’M SO EXCITED!!!

32. [Mystara] The gurrosh “gatorfolk” of the Malpheggi Swamp worship Ka, a t-rex who ascended to godhood. 33. [Mystara] The Five Shires is less the Shire of Tolkien and more the Hidden Villages of Naruto. 34. [Mystara] In today’s episode of Unusual Cultural Traditions: in the Northern Reaches...

Light Domain cleric, perhaps? I mean, I once played a PC Light Cleric in a Stone Age setting who worshipped the communal bonfire in every village he encountered.

21. All dwarves only LOOK male. They are actually an intersex species. It’s just that the overwhelming majority of dwarves (19 out of every 20) prefer male pronouns. 22. The metal called “mithral” on Mystara is the same one known as “adamantine” on Krynn and “tyrian iron” on Athas. 23. The...