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Agreed. I think a swarm could work for the conjured as well.

Right. Which is fine for a single player game, especially in video game format, but not so great for a team-based tabletop game.

Also makes me think of Prisoner 13 from the Golden Vault anthology. She’s a monk with magical tattoos.

That’s awesome, Justice! Thanks for chiming in. Any thoughts on upscaling it for 8th level PCs? I’d love to include this in my ongoing episodic Eberron campaign, but they’re already a bit past 3rd level.

The cult leader, Xia, is a ghast gravecaller with Int 18 and Wis 14. She ain’t no fool, and yet she seems happy to have her zombies paint fluffy white clouds and silver dragons on the temple walls for no apparent reason. (As an aside, the accompanying picture of Xia and her ghoul guards is...

I know, but still ... it shouldn't take much Wisdom to see that's counterintuitive.

I haven't finished reading the third adventure (with the silver dragon pretending to be Orcus), but the premise feels kinda flimsy ... perhaps it explains it better later on, but in the first parts, the premise that these cultists are dumb enough to go along with being told to destroy everything...

Exactly! I note that the second adventure also returns to this well. However, it does a better job of both a) telegraphing it to the players and b) providing the DM with advice. For starters, the readaloud text indicates that the dragon's eyes are "cloudy and white" - that might make players...

Another would be Waterdeep: Dragon Heist. The PCs have to fight four kenku who are members of the Xanathar Guild early in the adventure.

I’ve read through the first two adventures so far. In the first one, I feel like it doesn’t do a good job setting up how the players can figure out that the elves have been tortured into being hostile and resolve those conflicts without killing them. Yes, the adventure provides mechanics for...

Ooh. I lost track of when this was coming out. Will have to check it out tomorrow!

I completed the main Fallout 4 quest with Nate and the BOS. That was fine but I’m not enjoying playing as Nate as much as I did as Nora. I also pretty much chose the exact same playstyle for Nate as I did for Nora. So I am starting over as Nora, and this time I’m going to play up the fact that...

I figured that was probably the case. Thanks for the brief character summary!

What bugs me about the cover is they all look far too cheerful for people who’ve just been dumped into Barovia.

I enjoyed both “Heart of Stone” (Odo is tested by the female Founder) and “Destiny” (Sisko starts to believe maybe he is the Emissary).

Really? Seems kinda random ...

Speaking of both Madripoor and F&WS, I had assumed this movie would be when we next saw Sharon Carter, but apparently not, so I wonder when her dangling plot thread will be picked up again …

Oooooh! I wasn’t referring to culture at all. Just appearance. Shield dwarves look like your stereotypical Scottish-mixed-with-Viking fantasy dwarf, while the gold dwarves look African (or African-American, if you prefer). @Parmandur had mistakenly referred to the gold dwarf among the...

I only mentioned it as a way of contrasting her with Bareil. @payn was the one who took issue with my use of the word. Perhaps they were right because I didn’t mean for it to become a whole debate!

I’m not arguing Kira should be repentant. As for Winn and Bareil: in “Life Support”, Bashir gets right to the heart of why Winn needs Bareil – she’s a coward who can’t handle the negotiations herself, but even if she could, having Bareil do it makes it so she can blame him if things go wrong...