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Back in Pathfinder, I played through Rise of the Runelords, Second Darkness (until we derailed it), Curse of the Crimson Throne, and I think Wrath of the Righteous. We had to plug this nasty hole connecting this one country with the Abyss in a “Mythic” campaign. We were going to play Iron...

Reply to OP. Didn’t know the two of them were married, but I’ve never liked Jamison Stone and am not surprised in the slightest about him. There’s always been something about his eyes that screams “do not trust this man” to me. As for Satine Phoenix, think I’ve only seen a single YouTube...

It has nothing to do with Challenge rating for me, but rather the fact that every lair action you just mentioned is necromancy themed. Which again, for evil wizards is something I personally find boring and overused in D&D.

Subtle metamagic means you can’t be counterspelled.

Reply to OP. Pass. Never cared for vecna. In my opinion he’s just another boring necromancer wizard BBEG lich. Now, if D&D Beyond perhaps offered up (and this is just me spitballing here) a free dossier on a conjuration wizard BBEG who decided lichdom was so last year and instead became an...

I LOVE IT!!

I mean... if you strip out Volo’s fear-mongering of orcs and their culture, there is a subtle implication that the orcs are actually a matriarchal society, but I still wouldn’t call it “beautifully written” by any stretch. EDIT Ruin Explorer beat me to it.

Beasts, Lycanthropes, and Undead. Beasts — As a DM, I expect you to want to kill monsters, not cause the next extinction event of regular animals. Lycanthropes & Undead — I’ve played in too many games where the DM wanted to run a horror campaign but couldn’t get the tone right and ended up...

Considering just how little of any treasure the other DMs in my group give out compared to my own campaigns, I would love to see a D&D setting whose elevator pitch is “this is where ALL the magic items are”. In my own personal experience with DMs who have never played or experienced any D&D...

Expedition to the Barrier Peaks writ large, I think.

Dark Sun & Mystara. I picked Dark Sun as my favorite because I like the Sword & Sandal genre, the AMAZING art, and all the unique creatures and their associated lore.

Tank the Kank from my first Dark Sun campaign. The guy playing the fighter absolutely loved the fact that his spartan warrior-inspired PC rode a giant scarab beetle-ant monster. The Aardvark from one of my Dad’s more lighthearted campaigns. We were fighting an invading colony of formians from...

Wait, the guards were swinging chainmail shirts? Like they were Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy’s towels?

raises hand I would argue that Mystara is the Quasi-Historical setting. I mean, you’ve got (almost literally) the Roman Empire and Vikings in a military alliance with each other against Atlantis.

Dragonborn = Barrier Peaks Lizardoids? Dude, that’s awesome! And it gives Dragonborn a distinct and very Greyhawk flavor

Vecna = adventure book. Giants UA = setting book. That’s my opinion anyway.

If nothing else, we’d at least get a 5e Rune Giant. A 5e remake of the Hollow World would be amazing.

Giant Path Barbarian - nothing fancy but it feels to me like a streamlined Storm Herald barbarian. I like it. Primeval Druid - Not gonna lie, I’ve always imagined that the Rakasta species which live on the Isle of Dread were actually gorgonops-folk instead of tiger-folk. Might be a lot of...

My philosophy as a DM is that forcing a player to essentially forfeit their turn because their character failed a saving throw (like against being frightened) leads to player disinterest, not investment. So, instead, almost negative conditions only last until the start of their next turn...

Yeah, my chief inspiration for dragons comes from the ones in Beowulf and book 1 (Knight of the Red Cross?) of the Faerie Queene.