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There's actually been an increasing amount of concern among artists that this tech will really wreak havoc with industries that employ creatives, especially since the release of an AI image generator called Stable Diffusion a few weeks ago.

I distinctly remember pre-MToF where a promo video explained that dwarves and orcs act largely the same no matter where they are because of the influence of their creator gods. IIRC Eberron was explained as being an exception because it blocks the influence of Moradin and Gruumsh. This idea was...

Now that the Planet of the Apes reference has been explicitly spelled-out I can see what they were going for, but honestly I can't believe they even dared to bring back the hadozee in the first place. I saw the criticisms of dwarves having tremorsense and really it seems like that for many of...

IIRC the 4E lore stated at one point that Druids and other Primal classes predated the Divine classes, with the gods being too fixated on fighting the primordials in the Elemental Chaos and Astral Sea at first.

I liked the lore for the 4E Primal power source myself. IIRC one of the later books posited that the primal spirits may have been elementals that decided they liked being part of the mortal world and wanted to defend it as is instead of letting it be destroyed by the primordials or ruled by the...

I find the example of Queen Bargnot in the MCDC Flee, Mortals! preview interesting. In terms of mechanics she looks almost like a combination of a statblock and a combat encounter all in one. The entire statblock is basically about bringing in Goblin Minions and using them in different ways...

To elaborate on my earlier post, the adventure that Shadowspace is detailed in describes it as a collection of worlds on the decline due the disruption of a kind of interplanetary ecosystem (short descriptions of what the worlds were like beforehand are helpfully provided). I think when I run...

When I run it I think I'd rather start the adventure on some minor backwater world that doesn't necessarily have prominent heroes or beings invested in its preservation. I happened to find an old Spelljammer module in a store a few years back that features a system called Shadowspace; I may use...

My understanding is that the adventure as written is the way it is because WotC was getting feedback that customers want adventures whose length is longer than the short adventures in the anthology books and shorter than the standard 5E adventure books. As for the adventure itself, I'm still...

I was introduced to D&D in my junior year of high school back in 2006 (wish it could have been sooner, TBH). A senior in an art class I was taking had the 3.5 PHB out. I asked to take a look, and a few days later a friend and I were running through a sample combat encounter the senior prepared...

I'll modify an encounter to make it harder, but not the other way around if the party could flee.

Isn't the Doomspace planet Fyreen the one that seems most similar to Athas? IIRC it was despoiled and ruled by tyrannical dragons.

I always appreciate whenever this example comes up in regards to realism and D&D because it's so often overlooked (presumably because of how long it's been present in the game). Personally I try to justify it as a PC's strikes hitting around the time that the giant swung down their weapon, but...

I probably gave the impression earlier that I'm interested in planar content, and I feel like the 4E-era Dungeon Magazine adventures were especially good for that since the Epic tier was associated with the planes. For example, the Scales of War adventure path had adventures in the City of...

@aco175 I'm not certain the moderators here would appreciate this being linked here, especially since the magazines are still available for purchase on sources like DMsGuild.

You just reminded me of a very good article called "Inns in an Instant". It included a tavern name generator, tables of names for inn employees from a number of races, multiple menus that varied based on locale (including a menu for an inn in the Underdark), and random tables for things you...

Of all the content you've ever seen from Dragon Magazine or Dungeon Magazine, what really stood out to you? I'll go first: The various features on different famous/infamous beings of the multiverse were always a treat. I loved the Demonomicon of Iggwilv series, and during the 4E era I...

I've missed both Dragon Magazine and Dungeon Magazine, and IMO Dragon+ was a poor successor. The only thing I remember liking at all from Dragon+ was the small number of articles (and by small number I mean like maybe 2 or 3) detailing a couple of new NPCs with statblocks and backstories. I...

I don't have anything against Ideals and all, but I am amused that alignment survived when apparently they haven't.