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Very cool. I went the other direction, and decided that the rules of the game represent the underlying physics of the game universe. Each dragon type embodies one of the essential forces of the universe, aka the 10 energy damage types, so I filled in extra colors & metals to match.

Read the article you just referenced. The mythological Tiamat was sometimes depicted as a serpent, but she was strictly one-headed. The extra heads only appear in later mash-ups with Temtun/Lotan/Leviathan.

Warning: rambling discourse ahead. I've been pondering why the founding nerds picked those 5 colors and 6 metals for the core dragons. First, we have damage types. OD&D initially recognized fire, cold, and lightning. Black dragons & trolls bring acid into play, but the word never appears in...

Thanks for all the ideas. I'm designing the platoons as swarms or mobs. Their actions are area effects (aura for melee, rectangle for ranged) that automatically deal a bunch of damage minus the target's AC, which streamlines combat without negating the value of armor. Quickleaf's idea about...

The party is 15th level, and it's time to put them up against a couple hundred soldiers in platoons. What's a good way to make this tactically interesting and take about an hour? We had a previous battle using standard 5E combat with dozens of individual tokens and it was a tedious slog. I've...

I created a series of feats for the themes, including this one. My game calls the Technologist's Simulacrum "Drone" instead. Are the options below roughly comparable in value? What _NUMBER_ should I use to make this a solid worthwhile feat (but not broken)? Drone Rigger (prerequisites...

Moved Eberron & Ravnica into splatbook races. Would still appreciate feedback about the newer races & subclasses, which I haven't seen in actual play.

Treantmonk's grid templates for dancing lights are incorrect. If you place a 10' radius AoE on the center of a grid square, it can only illuminate 9 squares (3x3), because every square beyond that distance has less than 50% coverage...

I hadn't read the Polyhistor paragon/prestige class until now. Wow. It has martial dice, that you expend to perform special attacks or defenses, and often add the result to the attack or damage roll. Designed during D&D 4E. How is it possible that absolutely no one has ever commented on the...

Updated with info from replies. The campaign docs cover 5 kings and a queen, but that's not much in a 1700 year lineage. Timeline of Risur -1200: Kelland founds Risur. -???: ??? 000: Dukain fights Voice of Rot in the Black Needles. ???: Romana ancestor actions unspecified. 218: Zidi...

Updated version with some corrections & additional detail.

I was disappointed with The Book of Kelland's description, so I rewrote it to focus on the real hero of the tale. This book of verse is the autobiography of Esme, daughter of Kelland and Meredith. The family's ship was attacked while crossing the Avery Sea, and Kelland was claimed as a lover...

Thanks. Yes, please add any that you know.

In Ch 7, is Reason named after the railgun from Snow Crash?

In Ch 3 "That's Classified", is Colonel Harlock and his tentacle technique an anime reference? Is Harlock Hentai a thing?

Zeitgeist has a bunch of references that people might not get if they don't know the source material. I only know a few of them, so please add to the list. SPOILERS AHEAD, obviously. updated by info from hirou, Elfshire, Andrew Moreton, MrPereira, and of course Ranger Wickett Part 1...

They might try to dig up Ob research while traveling the continent in chapter 11 or even chapter 8. I'll have a few crumbs prepared just in case.

The labyrinth map is 50 squares wide, too big for most battle mats, so I made a version with 5' wide hedge walls that fits on a 3' mat. Then I figured why stop there? So I rearranged it a bit and added a few optional extras. ■ dark green = hedge wall ■ light green = planter pipe ■ cyan =...