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Not at all. A great bunch of evil dragons (color code says Black=evil) and their kin were killed. That's a good deed.

Indeed!

I want a fun game, That means I want a game I can customize so it suits me as close to perfectly as possible.

I type my prep notes. Also, I log a session by hand, then type up the session log as part of the preparation for the next session.

Ed Greenwood mentions Raise Dead. After a massacre at a ball in one of the Seven Sister's novels he mentioned how the corpses were gathered, how the next day the spells would be cast, and then the griefing would begin for those who would not rise. Just one of those little bits that make a novel...

There are a lot of ways to kill a king in D&D despite raise dead. I remember an assassination attempt on King Azoun in "Cormyr: A Novel" that used an original way around the fact that usually, poison can be cured easily. And even so, "the soul does not want to return" is a way to stop raise...

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MinMaxing as a DM or how to be a lazy DM and still have success

It's not about liking mud, angst and realism, it's about liking characters that are not defined by their special heritage, special power, or special destiny, lacking anything else. And it's very much about whether or not the book meshes with the game world.

Tell that to WotC.

There are several ways to kill someone for good, and they are not that difficult to pull them off. If the writers don't use them they are simply lazy or ignorant.

There's also a symmetry here - V disintegrated the son, so he might want to disintegrate the mother dragon too.

Realistically, Raise Dead is available for cash. Sourcebooks and rules say so - especially in one of the biggest, richest metropolis of Faerun. It's quite unrealistic that this would not be the case. If Raise Dead is not available for cash, then that should be mentioned in the novel. If there...

An epic wizard whose Spell DCs have been buffed so much the Dragon can't save even on a 20?

But neither should you ask yourself "Why doesn't he/she simply do X?!" If you have a cleric in your novel, then you need to explain why the cleric can't heal a dieing friend, or raise a dead friend.

That depends on what was there first. In a D&D novel, I expect the world that is portrayed to adhere to the D&D source - not to violate central setting information. In Waterdeep there are dozens of clerics able to cast raise dead. A novel that does not take that into account should not use...

As soon as a RPG setting gets its own novels the novelists will wreck it. Instead of working within the system they - often unimaginative hacks - will create "exceptional characters", breaking rules and flavor, and often the setting itself because they could not create an interesting character...

I haven't had much trouble running high-level 3.X, though I don't do much combat. We usually have to cut down 90% of the combat encounters if we ever use a bought adventure.

I expect Ravenloft be adjusted so the setting fits 4E, not the other way around.

I am perfectly capable to understand that a game is not real life. And I work enough, I don't need to work in a game to "earn" something.