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You CAN, of course, focus on familiarizing yourself with the specific options your players chose rather than memorizing every SINGLE possibility, naturally...

Everyone has their own particular tastes and playstyles and all, but... I'd still highly recommend that you start considering it your job. It's impossible to balance challenges and encounters for your players if you don't know what they're capable of.

Just randomly curious: What issues do you have with Frog God (Games)?

Darkvision still imposes light obscurement in areas of darkness. I can't speak for any other DMs, but I treat this as the periphery of headlight or flashlight beams. That is, it shows silhouettes and gleams from eyes but little other detail. It will show the gross overall contours of walls...

Eberron has a species of lycanthrope-relatives called Shifters as a playable character option that could function pretty well for a variety of furry types.

Perhaps the dragon lairs in the ruined temple of an ancient deity or set of spirits. Entities that once considered the beast sacred and warded it against attacks from most weapons. At various places in the temple lie broken tablets and monoliths that give clues to how the ancient warding can...

My most immediate concern is: Why exactly is a Harvest Moon helping you teleport, dodge attacks, and/or make people afraid? Those don't immediately come across to ME, at least, as thematically Harvest Moonish or harvest spirit/god/entity-like effects.

Twelve pages? In the empty shell of a Snarf-shaped husk? For shame, people, for shame. No, I'm not angry Just disappointed.

I'd give the caster a general description of the effects: "Releases a scything blades", "collapses a ceiling", "expels poison gas". Hopefully including a clue as to what features it is likely attached to, but not spelling it out directly.

Campaign background lore is essential in games I run - I expect the PCs to make decisions and formulate strategies based upon it. I am glad that some general monster and world lore exists in published books. While I reserve the right as DM to make alterations, having a general body of common...

I'm a little worried that they may have nerfed dragon breath damage across the board. I note that the Summon Dragon spell from the PHB2024 has a truly anemic breath weapon (2d6 for like a 5th level spell slot); that is theoretically balanced by being interchangeable with a melee attack during a...

I'm liking the broadened tactical options over the 2014 version.

The Crater Ridge mines really weren't intended to be fully cleared IMO. I like...the occasional targeted foray into a mega-dungeon. But as a major campaign focus or feature I find they get pretty tedious.

I think Forge of Fury and Lost Shrine of Tamoachan were pretty good. And the original Tomb of Horrors 👹 (under the right circumstances). It's been decades but I remember liking Castle Greyhawk. I never did understand the love for the Sunless Citadel though - thought that one was boring.

It is, of course, easy enough to just invent or reskin a more European-themed fighting monk. Perhaps something like a militant friar, devoted to defending the poor without expensive (/knightly) weapons or armor. Say...the Custos Mendicans of St. Cuthbert (the...err Greyhawk version)...

In my games - there is some variation and sometimes there are populations with other skin colors. But both orcs and goblins usually range from grey-green to olive to brown-green, regardless of what the official monster manual description says. Fits the fantasy archetype better IMO.

Couple random ideas - * A farm where the formerly banished cult of mercy is attempting to breed or magically create...or surgically create...mindless humanoids to serve as food (after being hung or buried to properly season in a few properly horrific rooms). Creatures that can satisfy ghoulish...

At first glance: I don't much care for how they work the event system; and I'm a bit skeptical or at least iffy on the prospect of PCs receiving bastions without at least SOME level of baseline personal cost or time investment. But the power level seems appropriate and the simplicity of the...

Monk - Just saying...