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What was the planar arrangement your group settled on? It was necessary to pick one to be the default for ZEITGEIST going forward, and I tried to select ones that were popular among groups that had reported finishing the campaign. But if yours is different, and you do plan to run another...

In an odd coincidence, someone was posting on the EN World Discord channel about having just finished the campaign too. So that's two groups in the same week, 9 years after the adventures were published. Any other art you might share? And, what's the plan for the group? Dassi, are you taking a...

What game system did you run? 4e/5e/PF? Care to give me a quick rundown of the PCs?

If I need a proper world-building answer, the Clergy is globe-spanning, and so he probably had Risuri ancestors, which is why he had a Risuri name. But he operated with the nom de guerre Nicodemus because it sounded more Crisillyiri. The real answer is meta, though. My own father - William...

In my game, one of my friends is playing a Tabaxi (cat person). He's got a whole suite of Tabaxi NPCs in his backstory with names like something out of the Thundercats. (He's a swindler named Chee-tor. There's a drunken albino lion-man named Whiteclaw. A hairless Tabaxi named Sphynxo. Etc.) So...

Well now you have to share a thousand details. Start with the most important one: Rock Rackus - villain, or menace?

Not mechanically the same, but in the same vein of 'I want fighters to do more stuff,' maybe there should just be a robust list of nifty things you can do with an action, but which a fighter can do as bonus action (like how rogues can dash/disengage/hide). Maybe fighters can Dash, Grab, or...

Plot Threads and NPCs (much rambling, incomplete, mostly for my own edification) Riverfolk A public beef between Beshel and Chebas, hoping to get the river goddess more support. Bard for Beshel. More established. Bard for Chebas. Former river pirate. Bard for Lusar, a warrior god. They...

Plot ideas by temple: Beshel, goddess of the sea I kinda wanna make this the Drake in a diss battle, and Chebas can be Kendrick. You've got sea versus river, distant water versus local, a bunch of lawmakers doing human sacrifices versus old school farmers tilling their own land, monster...

To put it briefly, I've got a very free-form element of my campaign I need to figure out, where the party wants to pit various temples against each other. How do I fit that into a D&D game? Inspiration: Lately there has been a 'beef' between two musicians - Kendrick Lamar and Drake. I'll...

Yeah, it's more comparable to if you were operating in the slave owning South, and you kept some slaves on hand in case you needed to buy some expensive goods, because they were easier to deal with than having a lot of cash? Which is A weird concept in reality, but in a fantasy game, that's how...

There is no ethical consumption in capitalism. If I buy my mom flowers, even if it's a nice gesture, I'm still engaging in a system where the worth of money is dependent on its use as a tool by myriad bad efforts. The currency, sure, isn't literally tormented souls, but the dollars in the...

Ever time I run this adventure, I free associate into new weird items for Erdan to give the party. Last time was a Bear mask that gives you a bite attack when you wear it. One PC put it on his horse, lol.

ZEITGEIST has worlds with elemental vibes, but that are more than just chunks of raw element. Caeloon is entirely floating islands, most of them covered with meadows or forests, with storms roiling in the center. Monks attempt to create places of respite and beauty, to weave together a world...

I recall designing a ZEITGEIST boss fight with this in mind. I had a singular mastermind who had bound four ghosts to him which he could use as little minions to grab and such. But if he was affected by something he didn't like, he could just have one of the ghosts take the hit instead. It was...

I played a fight in 4e where a dragon attacked a village built on a lake, with homes connected by narrow wooden bridges. I marked the dragon with my aegis of assault, and so of course he ripped me to shreds. With only a few HP left, I shifted out of reach and dove into the water so he couldn't...

I rather fell in love with the Legend of the Five Rings fiction published during the period when Fantasy Flight Games oversaw the IP. They basically rebooted the setting to focus on samurai drama more than crazy gods and demons and such. You can read the vast majority of it here: Chrysanthemum...

Also, for when you do get to adventure 5, I recommend taking a read of my thread where I did some (incomplete) brainstorming on how to make that adventure feel a little more interesting, and to make the characterization of Pilus more compelling...

There is maybe one halfling I recall putting in the whole AP, and he's very earnest, honestly. But as is the case with the wee folk, I appear to have mostly overlooked them. So you'll have to add stuff. I might suggest to have Seaquen be founded originally by halflings. You could say the...

Hm. I originally figured I'd let people just ad hoc combos, but the idea of having pre-designed combos is kinda interesting. Harder to just record stuff on your own sheet, but it might encourage me to be creative in designing PC abilities with an expectation that combinations should do...