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Here's the PDF of my White Plume Island Adaptation, if it's useful to anyone:

Ohmigosh - I changed virtually the entire thing and just kept the map and the basic premise of an archamge's lost lair. My write up is 12 pages long. In small print. I love WPM, but it very much shows its age in that, plot-wise, it is pretty nonsensical. In this version, set for a party of 6...

Last game was super fun - the party had finished up a huge arc, so spent a few days doing sand box-type stuff. They geared up, partied, and finished off two minor adventure hooks they had acquired over the past few weeks. First they finally located alleged treasure cave on a crude map they had...

This is a holdover from the current rules, as officially published in Tasha's and currently available to artificers as one of their infusion options on DDB: In fact, my spouse's artificer took this infusion to help out the barbarian in the party. In their interpretation, as soon as the weapon...

Looks dumb, like an obviously bad design. Not that dragons could actually fly if the wings were facing the correct way (magic aside), but this just looks like a miniature with the wongs glued on backwards by mistake. It's weird, sure, but not interesting or imaginative weird. Just...backwards...

I don't worry too much about species' populations in my settings, unless it is going to be a specific plot point (like they are on the verge of extinction, or are being targeted for some reason). Otherwise, nations are defined more by their cultures, politics, and geography. Some areas do tend...

I would rule against it - the player is trying to eat his cake and have it too. It also goes against the intent of the invocation, IMO. Plus, allowing it encourages players to shop around for other advantages they can get by swapping around pacts and keeping some of the advantages of the swapped...

It's got a zombie t-rex. Anything after that is gravy.

And this one always inspires me, too. Not much of a cryer, but I get feels.

Since someone mentioned Rod Stewart:

You have to admit the evidence is pretty damning that those awards were in the bag for TSR, and yes I absolutely do doubt the impartiality of them as their own judges. I mean, I guess you don't have to admit it, but it seems like a strange hill to die on. I was there at the time - a young...

To put 60 points of damage in 1e context, that kills most things in the monster manual in one round. Even most giants had fewer HP than that.

No. Science does not prove anything, least of all reality. Experiments seek to discomfirm hypotheses, and if they fail to do so, then we consider the hypothesis stronger, but never proven. Trying to prove things is exactly how you get pseudo-science. And trying to prove things is why, prior to...

Respectfully, I disagree. We can't reliably observe them because they haven't been defined in any measurable sense. You can't do science on something that has no recognized properties.

I started re-reading the Harry Potter series - I was in Porto on vacation a few weeks ago, wanted an easy vacation read, and it was the obvious choice given that Rowling started work on it while she lived there, and there are all kinds of nods to the books throughout the city. Anyway, I just...

Sorry, but step 4 isn't possible until your friend clearly defines what "ghost" means in quantifiable terms. Otherwise, you can't even know what the variables are. So they've already failed to pass step 3. You can't build a hypothesis off of a supernatural entity. This is why "God did it" can...

I play 5e using milestone leveling and player characters are all the same level, period. If your character dies or retires, you start your new one at the same level as the rest of the party. It just keeps things balanced and with 5e's mechanics I don't see any good reason for having disparate...