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About a ton of Forgotten Realms AND Planescape books would say otherwise, very strongly. Kossuth, Ishtishia, Grumbar, and Akadi all have the rank of Greater Power. They're more than just elementals with lots of hit dice.

In 5e? Never tried it. In 1e? Oh yeah, Throne of Bloodstone, one of the first Forgotten Realms modules and the highest-level D&D module ever released (for characters level 18 to 100), I've played through it killing Orcus before, 20+ years ago.

Whether or not a religious figure is real or not is your personal opinion. Are you trying to attack people's religious beliefs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orcus Roman God of Broken Oaths and sometimes worshiped as a God of the Underworld in lieu of Hades or Dis Pater (especially in more rural areas, where Orcus's worship was more popular, he had no official temples in the cities). Believed to be a Roman adaptation...

There's a difference between a completely fictional deity that exists as a literary device (), and one that has real-world flesh-and-blood worshippers. Many, or most, of the various historic pantheons that D&D has used for games have real world adherents and are real-world religions as well as...

No it isn't. I clearly remember the term in use before then, because I remember people I haven't seen since 2006 introducing me to the term when I talked to them in person a decade and a half ago. It was a term that was in use, I have no idea about how widespread it was online, but I know...

That article tries to claim the term was invented in 2011 on RPG.net. I KNOW it had to be before 2011, because there's a gaming group I played with circa 2006 that regularly used the term. I'm pretty sure the term was in widespread use at least a decade before that. I think it's become so...

I'm talking about GI Joe: A Real American Hero, the action figure, comic, and cartoon line that began in 1982. GI Joe, in it's original version of a 12 inch figure was released in 1964, but sales slumped during the Vietnam War. They tried re-tooling it into the GI Joe Adventure Team, with GI...

Oh yeah, that's the right tone for GI Joe: Military realism and attention to detail. Preferably written by someone who actually served. Relatively accurate and realistic depiction of the military (at least by comic book and TV/movie standards). . .80's Ninja and Action movies mentality. A...

Oh yeah, he did live-action host segments for the cartoon at one point too. They did several releases of a Sgt. Slaughter action figure back in the 80's. He wasn't the only real-world individual to get a GI Joe figure release either. They did William "The Refrigerator" Perry as a member of...

I didn't know that was a thing. Looking on it. . . I DEFINITELY didn't know they did an adaptation of 2001: A Space Odyssey for Star Frontiers. I did see something that was missing. A Song of Ice and Fire (before it was Game of Thrones) got a D&D conversion in Dragon Magazine #305 (March...

By the time a party is rich enough to be buying those kind of magic items, or have a wizard casting Item spells, they'll have access to all kinds of other magic items, spells, and such that gunpowder seems like a very inefficient use of resources. Wasting item spells, Tenser's Floating Disc...

That much gunpowder is bulky, PC's won't easily be able to haul it from place to place. Even if they can, it's still heavy to move around and stage. It's not like they can just easily chuck full powderkegs at an enemy to set them off. Even if they did, there are all kinds of ways where that...

Paranoia had a Nuclear Hand Grenade as an R&D item in one adventure once. The listed instructions were: 1. Pull Pin 2. Throw HARD. In the same vein, I'd also like to point out the M-28 "Davy Crockett" recoilless rifle, a tactical nuclear rocket launcher from the Cold War in the 1960's. The...

Would you allow unlimited Holy Water? Unlimited Alchemist's Fire? Treat it like you would any other alchemical item: make it expensive to buy and time consuming to make. If PC's are cleaning out the local alchemists of something like that, people are going to ask questions, people are going...

Make a good-faith effort to learn how the rules of the game work, especially rules related to your character. (I've seen people want to play who need to be walked through every action, even weeks or months into a game) Create a character that can co-exist with the other characters in the party...

Mystra is the Goddess of Magic in the Realms, why would her power extend beyond the crystal sphere of Realmspace to other planes? She doesn't have sovereignty over magic all throughout the multiverse, like in the Nine Hells or the Abyss. A Goddess of Magic from one single Prime Material world...

Uh, no. 3e did explicitly NOT consider psionics magic. There's a WORLD of difference between saying that psionics and magic can affect each other, and saying they're the same thing. Try qualifying for a spellcasting prestige class with Psionic levels. . .you can't. Try qualifying for magic...

You think there aren't distinctions between Arcane and Divine magic in 3e and 4e? 3e is what literally gave us the terms "Arcane" and "Divine" when "Wizard" and "Priest" magic was generally used before that. When you read the spellcasting descriptions in a 3e class, it specifically enumerates...

For ~40 years, since Psionics were introduced in the 1st edition DMG, until now, Psionics were treated as something other than magic, a separate power source under a separate name. In every D&D setting that has used psionics, it's been treated as something other than spells, a distinctly...