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I'll also note that the DMG gives you a way to apply "skeleton" as a template to the NPC blocks. If you want to give your players a jolt, have a skeleton Gladiator, Berserker or Champion turn up among the common mooks.

You don't like FR. We get it.

Yeah, we're basically doomed to be treading water until a vaccine comes along. Funny tangent--I read Danse Macabre recently, Stephen King's non-fiction book about the horror genre, and I remember that either he or somebody he was quoting described horror as "a force that destroys the bonds...

I kind of despair of everyone at this point. You don't need detailed government guidelines to know that "throw a street party the night before restrictions increase" is a dumb idea, but the government handling has indeed been deeply inept, lurching between inactivity and confusing...

The actual scientists were telling them to do this a month and a half earlier, but Johnson ridiculed the idea. Schools and universities (where the virus is spreading fastest) stay open, because why the hell not? In the UK, it's probably vaccine or nothing, people just can't behave themselves.

The word "fixed" implies Polymorph ever reached a non-broken state. :)

I assumed that it was mainly there to fix Haste and Harm.

Back to the Thule game, and the PC's accepted the mission from the Atlantean noblewoman. She offered them a generous purse and free transport across the Kalayan Sea, and must have seem trustworthy enough for the PC's to take her up on it. She explained she was looking for a sunken elf city...

In my Eberron game, the PC's reached Stormreach in their mission to return to the giant complex known as the Temple of Eternity, and hung out for a bit. They went along with the request of an extremely shady character they had rescued from a sahuagin attack while crossing the sea (because he'd...

How about the idea that some species are more intelligent than others?

"I'm not running a campaign for those races." is a perfectly valid reason. If someone wants something that I explicitly ruled out in the campaign pitch, then my first thoughts will be one of these three: 1: Didn't read the pitch, and probably not invested in the game. 2: Wants the RP of the...

Or to put it another way, trusting the DM and acknowledging that if players didn't trust the DM, the game was probably doomed no matter how precise the rules were.

My Primeval Thule game: The PC's needed a boat to get off the cursed island they found themselves in, and convincingly bushwacked the slavers who had an outpost there. It was an entertaining stomp--one highlight was a panicked enemy jumping into the water of the docks, and the dwarf barbarian...

Agreed, with the proviso that "anyone else" includes the DM. And fluffwise, Warlock dips probably make the least sense of any class--"I made a fell and terrible bargain for power with an otherworldly entity, but then I got bored of it and decided to become a holy warrior or suddenly realise I...

Sorry, that wasn't very clear, I'll try and rephrase. Why not ban multiclassing only when it's clearly just for CharOp purposes instead of something reasonably powered that makes sense for the chararacter? And thinking on it, I think one of the reason I dislike the Hexblade dip is that it makes...

Why not just ban multiclassing when it's obviously only for CharOp purposes?

If someone wanted to play an actual Hexblade, I'd be cool with that--and help them develop their patron beyond the anemic description in the book--but I'm also up front that I wouldn't allow the usual eye-rolling "1 level of Hexblade, roll it around in the other CHA-based classes" cheese. I also...

Do you have a citation for that? I looked through the books after a long absence to write that last post, and it doesn't mention anything like that that I can see.

Overall, I'd describe the theme as upbeat and positive, much like the romantic fantasy novels that inspired the setting. People are fundamentally good underneath superficial differences and conflict comes when people give in to fear or ambition, seek unnatural power or are twisted and corrupted...

I liked the setting, even if I did find it a bit short on threats and antagonists that weren't all corralled in Designated Bad Guy Land (and 2e amplified that by having the setting's big villain killed off...sigh....by an NPC in a metaplot event). I'm curious how they're going to do the rhydan...