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In my mind's eye, I can't not see him twitching his nose.

People like half-elves because they want to play a race with pointy ears, but not with the ridiculously pointy rabbit ears that full-blooded elves have evolved in the last 20 years or so.

Are you looking for creatures/monsters to fight and present their head as a trophy or something? Or something more like rare beasts to hunt and capture? If the latter, perhaps a descendent of one of the creatures that lives in the World Tree? Something like a silver stag descended from Dainn...

Good call using a VTT. When you run the encounter, are you aiming it at a particular party, or is there a default party composition you assume?

Yeah, players are notoriously unreliable at sticking to my plans. ;) Is that what you're referring to "loose ends"? The forgotten immunities or teleports or summons and the like that the PCs might have up their sleeve? Or are you referring to stuff overlooked on the DM's side, like an...

tl; dr: I'd love to hear from those who do play-test, how do you do it? How do DMs around here play-test their own encounters/adventures in general, when you're not tailoring to a specific table? I'm most curious about "alpha" play-testing, i.e., when an interesting encounter idea pops into...

That depends on the charm, doesn't it? For succubus and harpy, any damage breaks charm is explicitly true by RAW. But that's not how the charm spell, or the vampire and dryad charm powers seem to be written. In those cases, only damage from the charmer or its allies prompts another save. I...

Mmmm... Best thing about this thread is that I can read it for dessert. :p

Nah, just those played by unimaginative players.

The rulings seem sound, especially given the added context of the time constraints, etc. And the moral of this story is: Always keep a spare one of these in your handy haversack:

Game. Anything. Just... game!

Perhaps if you consider an addiction to be an affliction that makes a person do (or not do) something they don't (or do) want to do, then that seems to fall in line with something like charm, petrify or curse.

re: the Kickstarter, you may be thinking of Old School Essentials?

Ah, of course. Thanks! I use that, too.

Sorry, newish 5e GM here. "KFC"?

Use the Force for luxurious locks. (This is Yaddle, female.)

Interesting. Can PCs learn them in 250 days of downtime for 250gp, just like other languages?

Above all else, a general lack of toilets on maps is what bothers me. So I am always relieved when I find a map that acknowledges the unacknowledgeable.