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The misty step copy is probably the best at high level. The damage riders are good if you have extra attacks or Eldritch Blast, the reaction is most likely overshadowed by a bunch of better things you could do instead.

I would connect this to Santa’s toymakers. Whilst usually referred to as elves, the current pop culture depiction closely resembles D&D tinker gnomes in both appearance and personality.

The area map? (no page numbers on DDB) why would it need grid squares? Or you could just do what I did and run the adventures with lower level characters than suggested. More tedious bookkeeping isn’t the same as more difficult, and we pretty much ignored that in 1st edition. And cutting out...

Yeah, I’ve noticed that, it’s a tension that has been around since 2nd edition at least. Really some people like the tinker gnome concept whist others are “get this MF Steampunk out of my MF D&D!”, and WotC trying to keep everyone happy. If I had to pick a side, I would go for the tinkers. The...

Star Trek: Those Old Scientists

No, I’m suggesting that the module did not tell you how you should play it, and people interpreted it in different ways. Gygax certainly did not assume PCs were good and heroic though - that was quite foreign to his games. Given his interest in medieval history, he should certainly have known...

You are assuming the PCs want to kill the orcs because they are good. In fact, there is no particular reason why the PCs should care that the orcs are killing people unless there is some way they can profit by it. In Beyond the Black River, whist Conan helps the imperialist colonisers in the...

The series justifies that by pointing out that the Maginot crew are cheap and expendable, and the hybrids are kids, with the lack of sense that goes with that.

Plenty of real world see pods explode. Just not usually fruit, and not usually doing that much damage. The puzzle needs to have some sort hazard for walking on the ground. But Hickman did tend to be quite jokey (also see Ravenloft), and Pharaoh is a parody of Mummy movies. If you want want to...

My memory of those days, it was usually the PCs. Which fits with the Conan inspiration - thief, murderer and rapist as he was (This module was heavily influenced by the Conan story Beyond the Black River). As I’ve said before, in those pre-internet days, people didn’t realise that everyone was...

My players like halflings and warforged. And we have had a couple of gnomes. But I don't think my players are choosing based on power or popularity. BG3 gnomes are pretty ugly, so that is probably a factor. But you definitely want Speak with Animals in BG3.

This adventure was for Basic rules. It's didn't have good and evil, only Lawful, Neutral and Chaotic (and there was no recommendation as to what side the PCs should pick). No paladins either for that matter. I've come across several accounts of players who sided with the humanoids and helped...

I'm sure they weren't. Most of my players weren't, and they have children of their own now! But nostalgia is even stronger in people who weren't around to remember how bad the reality was. Also see: the War.

Most of them don’t scale well at high level though.

There is a difference between being mechanically strong and being interesting. The wisdom save advantage is only really good if you also have proficiency, which limits you to cleric, druid, wizard, paladin, warlock and monk to get the most from it. And the spells are only useful in that they...

As written, the fruit explode irrespective of if they fall in the water or not. This room is already extremely trivial in 5e, if anything I would look to make it harder, not easier.

If it’s like a coconut the fruit will be clustered around the trunk, and thus fall in the centre of the tree’s space.

They were graded Inadequate.

Probably not, but it’s done with teachers all the time so 🤷‍♂️ .

I think they were using Midge as a personal name, not a species name. A long long time ago there were children’s stories and a TV series about Mary, Mungo and Midge. Mary was a human child, Mungo was a dog and Midge was a mouse.