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It's also important to keep in mind, when prepping adventures on Oerth, that you can be doing "the right thing" and still have a group of Lawful Good NPCs trying to kill you for it.

Hmm. The "dark powers" are just vestiges, trapped in amber over a thousand years ago by the cabal of magisters that built the Amber Temple. There they were trapped long after they had driven the arcanists mad, though the silver dragon Arynvost thought it was important to keep the Temple secure...

"I would like to take a minute and make an investigation check to try to figure out what the hell is going on, please."

The DMG has a table in the section on creating a new spell that has a suggested damage range per spell level. A starting point for your calculations might be to translate sneak attack dice into spell levels, and then consider the effects you want to give your subclass in the context of what...

The hell are you talking about, man? The folks who are dismissive of this "X card" concept aren't suggesting some kind of insensitive tyranny at the gaming table, only that people should speak up if they have a problem. The only vigorous expression of "me me me" entitlement is the suggestion...

I definitely agree that the Master of Ravenloft is a prisoner of the mists. Once you take up that power, your campaign is necessarily limited to consolidating your power in Barovia. I respectfully disagree with @MNblockhead with regard to the dark gift, however. While the dark gift of the...

That's a perspective I've seen expressed before, but I don't really understand it. I always build my traps as NPCs, including assigning them a CR, which makes giving XP for defeating the trap easy. Full xp value for disabling it, half xp value for detecting and bypassing it without having to...

I wouldn't base the inheritance upon the killing blow, since that's too random and doesn't provide the agency you seem to be looking for. Instead, I would base it on drinking Strahd's blood. As written, Strahd can't really be killed--he will reform eventually. To accomplish what your objective...

Seems like a missed opportunity for cross-promotion with the upcoming Ravnica setting.

Is there any included guidance on running the Heist in the Free City of Greyhawk, or is the DM completely on his own in that department?

Really? I didn't know that. As far as I can recall Paizo has stayed above that fray.

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that the way people put together a group for a TTRPG is to consider who among their friends would be interested in playing (and who could be talked into being the DM, if the organizer isn't keen to do that himself.) If you're friends with sociopaths (I admit...

Hah! Yeah, I had skipped over that bit to get to the actual game. I've certainly observed the general trend in the industry to include that sort of virtue signaling in the introductory pages of game manuals, but I think that's the first one I've seen that goes so far as to call it a "social...

I am unfamiliar with this. What is Paizo's "social contract" thing?

I think that saying "I have a phobia about spiders" or "I really can't deal with dead kids" isn't too much to ask. If you can't talk about your issues at least to the point of being able to establish some boundaries, then you might need to get your TTRPG action in a special "safe space" group...

There is no requirement, it works however the DM and players agree that it works. You could just as easily say that the spell that a wizard gets when gaining a level are spells that wizard has created, and the level represents time, research, and practice to accomplish that. That's a lot more...

Only in that there are abilities in World of Warcraft (and many other online games) which can only be used "out of combat" or "in combat." Eating, for example, cannot be done while "in combat." A rogue cannot activate stealth while in combat, unless using the "vanish" ability. There is an...

Wow, people surely do enjoy getting wrapped up in nit-picking the rules, don't they? D&D isn't WoW, and you don't have to worry about "in combat" vs. "out of combat." People get all worked up over initiative, but remember that initiative order is something you use whenever you need to know "who...

It hasn't come up yet, but if one of my players wanted to have a large character it would be pretty easy for me to do. Everyone gets a feat at level 1 to help define their character, so a large character would take the "Large Character" feat, which has a prereq of being a race that should be...

Sounds like Drew Karpyshyn. I wonder why he's being shy about it.