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The best way to encourage bad ideas is with Inspiration. When the party encounters a villain and the Paladin chooses to just trust him, rather than rolling Insight, because his Flaw is that he "Is a sucker for a pretty face" and the villain has one, he should get Inspiration. When the Wizard...

I want to see things Players need to know on the players side. Art is pretty but rules are practical. AD&D got this right in 1st edition, but most games since have forgotten it.

In Adventurers League play a Custom Background MUST use the Feature of a different, official, background. This may work well for other Custom Backgrounds too.

A long, long time ago.

As money increases time between adventures should increase. There's nothing wrong with saying "the winter passes uneventfully and it is now spring, everyone needs to pay 100 days of lifestyle expenses" once everyone has more than that much money.

D&D needs evil so the players know it's OK to kill them and take their stuff. Other games can have more nuance.

Rabbit. CR 0 Lair Action - Tunnel Blocker - While in its lair a Rabbit with 0 hit points may take a bonus action to move up to its speed and then die, possibly blocking a (small) tunnel or providing a cover bonus to the other rabbits.

Don't think of it as Paladin without spells, think of it as "Fighter with some Paladin powers". Compare it to other types of Fighters and see if it seems balanced with them. This seems strictly better than a Battlemaster Fighter, for instance.

This one breaks the usual design rules but what about "Keen Senses - You never, ever have Disadvantage on any Perception check or on any Passive Perception."

Something else to consider is that most parties have someone on watch at all times. In my groups this is usually split up into four two hour watches. If there is going to be a nighttime random encounter I usually roll to see which watch it will be on. If the encounter is on the first or fourth...

The first game I ever played on a grid used one of those 1" dress pattern cutting boards as the grid. It worked pretty well but we had to keep it clean, so that the DM could give it back to his mother. Add a clear plastic sheet on top and dress pattern cutting boards still work pretty well for...

That was in the before times. It's turning into pick one. :(

What about Gamma World as a D&D setting, not as a separate game?

"Can", but won't; just as I "can" eat babies, but I won't.

Wasn't he the medic too? Maybe training in Medicine? Also, Tuck could read Latin, maybe add in another language?

I call dibs on TSR 4 to TSR infinity. I won't do anything with them; I'm just stopping any future bad actors from using them. [Yes, I know that "call dibs" is not a recognized legal concept in this area, I'm being sarcastic.]

Or you could just 1) Reduce the price of a spyglass to 100 GP in your world and only then 2) give them a spyglass. This way the most they can sell it for is 50GP, and that should not break any campaign.

I'd handle it as a Madness with a difficult Save against, just like Madness from encountering Demon Princes and the like. If older Dragons are powerful enough to alter an area with Lair effects than they're powerful enough to affect characters minds,

"Living like a Rock-star" is 10Gp per day, so even one million GP's will last less than 274 years. Therefore elves are going to need to be the greediest.