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I'm sure this has been done a bazillion times, but...as the title says. If you had to pick, say, up to three?

Podlings - grown from a "mother" plant that comes into contact with the flesh of humanoids; whereupon a sprout forms and grows into fully fledged plant-based creature that looks identical to the humanoid whose flesh spawned it. When fully developed, they feel an intense drive to kill and...

Some sort of homebrew giant serpent, serpent swarms, possibly cockatrices. Or even (stretching things a bit) a chimera or dragon. Not entirely sure what you mean by your last question? You can vary encounters based on what purpose they serve in the dungeon. Maybe the Yuan-ti keep some...

My theory usually goes along the lines of: 1) Find a bunch of gullible idiots willing to convince themselves that heinous acts are necessary for "the greater good"; keeping in mind that the "greater good" might include such things as personal wealth or power, depending on the subject in...

PSA: Spamming the thread with endless repetitions of this same, tired old "argument" isn't persuasive, isn't moving discussion forward, and isn't earning you any respect.

I believe that anyone has the power to derail a game if they work hard enough.

CR 4-8 undead that do something legitimately frightening and long-lasting to PCs? (Beyond ghosts, anyway)

Excuse me a second, guys. Feeding my lizard picks.

I would definitely allow the animal companion to grant the +5 to passive perception. Makes both mechanical and thematic sense. However, if the opposing stealth check fell within the extra +5 range, I might be inclined to tell the player something like "Your wolf starts growling, you notice...

You know, now that I think about it, the last character I had come close to falling was actually an evil cleric of a blood-deity. Her "transgression" was failing to sacrifice to it. She started having nightmares about something being hungry. The next step would have been for her powers to...

Depends on the class, nature of the god / patron, and nature of transgression. USUALLY it's lose powers until amends have been made. But new gods or patrons may be found to replace old ones. Usually a difficult task or sacrifice is required in the latter case to prove devotion, though often...

Both drow and orcs are usually Evil in my games. And players need a good excuse (backstory) to play one that isn't. But I don't actually have a problem with Evil characters as long as the players agree to get along. Orcs tend to be a little more Chaotic than Evil.

We'll add this to the heap of facepalms sitting over there, shall we?

Dwarves in one of my games had been "humanized" by disturbing, deific forces from a bear-like ancestor. Although retaining many of the classic dwarven characteristics they still had functional digging claws, bad tempers, and a penchant for hibernation.

I had great fun in a one-shot with an evil drow bard against it. Primary strategy was using "Conjure Animals" and bamboozling NPCs to trigger all the traps. Game dissolved before we finished, unfortunately.

There's a word for misusing language in this way, in fact. It's called "Equivocation".

That's kind of the root of the issue. The basic ruleset is designed to be independent of social context. Social context is something the DM or adventure/game world authors put in. And I've personally always interpreted the rules about building a castle and attracting retainers at level X to...

Mayor is as close to it gets to leadership in the shire, short of being the Thain - the military leader in the shire. It is more power than either Bilbo or Frodo ever held; the latter of which the blogger nevertheless refers to as a "gentleman".

He misses quite a lot of things. For example: Here, he seems to be confusing the base ruleset, which is designed to fit multiple possible game worlds, or generalized adventures (also designed to be adapted to multiple worlds) with a specific setting. Greyhawk, for example, has the Great...

Blink dog saliva? Or fur.