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So the last episode of Exandria Unlimited: Calamity is starting off well.

I get the feeling that official 5E monsters are designed for unoptimized parties. In my last campaign I often ended up using the maximum possible HP total (based on HD) for creatures and bumped up damage.

I'm still annoyed that the creature that Stranger Things named after D&D's Demogorgon is now what everybody not into D&D thinks of when they hear his name. At least this new creature kinda looks a bit like a weird take on a lich.

Hmm. I know it makes their damage output more consistent, but the original version of the merregon where they needed a sufficiently strong devil around for the extra attack made encounters with them a bit more interesting.

I assumed the pregens for this would be the characters from the D&D cartoon.

How reliable that perspective is remains to be seen. Still, it was an interesting choice on Mulligan's part to portray Asmodeus as he has. It's defintely not how I'd expect D&D's equivalent to Satan to behave, but it could all just be an act.

I'm curious how much more the remaining two episodes will go into the creation of the world itself.

I haven't actually had anyone try to craft a magic item in a campaign yet, but one suggestion I found online is to look for spells that require material components and have effects at least thematically similar to whatever the magic item does. Unfortunately, the magic weapon spell doesn't...

I typed in "Underdark" on the DALL-E demo and got some neat stuff:

Thanks for that, it makes me feel a bit better. "AI making artists obsolete" is one of those ideas that gives me the willies (although a lot of the AI generated images I've seen give me a very strong "uncanny valley" feeling). I did find it amusing that even this AI thinks that Demogorgon is...

Eventually all formerly creative media will be automatically-generated by AI, probably.

The longer introductions served multiple purposes: Introducing the PCs Establishing that they all wield great power and authority in Avalir's institutions Giving a taste of what this highly advanced setting is like through some of the people who make it tick

The Age of Arcanum produced a surprising number of floating cities. IIRC before EXU: Calamity began we knew of Aeor, Draconia, and Zemniaz, all three of which have been destroyed. Now we have Avalir, which itself originated from a heretofore unknown continent called Domunas (though this could...

There's always the chance that whatever the characters do in EXU: Calamity, even if they can't actually stop the Calamity itself, could have repercussions that might show up somewhere. So far particularly major events of Critical Role's campaigns have been noted in sourcebooks published...

I watched it live the other night and have some thoughts: I'd only ever seen bits of Brennan Lee Mulligan's game mastering where he was running games of a more comedic tone, so it was nice to see in the first few minutes that he's more than capable of going dark. Lots of fantasy settings have a...

The most well-regarded 4E adventures to my knowledge are Reavers of Harkenwold (an Asmodeus-worshiping mercenary company called the Iron Circle attacks a barony), Madness at Gardmore Abbey (a paladin's stronghold was thrown into chaos by the Deck of Many Things, which has left lingering effects...

IIRC the final print issue of Dungeon had some kind of list like that.