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The iconic belgoi from Dark Sun's AD&D Boxed Set by Brom, on the player/DM adventure guides, fits the setting as it lures you into your certain doom with its bell, all superposed by the desolate world and its twin moons. I Trampier's lizard man from the old monster manual. There's something...

Lol, been years. One of the best jokes, and if you look closely at the "Interior Illustrations" on the credits page, it reads: Tim Beach and Doug Stewart (invisible stalker). Per one of the other artists, it was a prank and so good they kept it.

Aasimar, Tiefling. Golarian (Pathfinder). They actually have culture and a reason to exist other than just looking emo and cool. Dragonborn, Goliath. No one. Dwarf. Dragonlance. About as rich as it gets for variety and complex interplay, ranging from the betrayal of the Dwarfgate War to the...

It's a solid idea, and one that's probably already in use at many tables: decouple skills from ability scores - which is similar to your random assignment. I began doing this when using the Advanced 5E (Level Up) ruleset for a campaign. If I roll for social interactions, I prefer them to be...

He's found out she's been with other people, and before becoming a ghost he's rationalized that he needed to be more "hip," causing him to expend his funds (he asks the party treasurer for permission to get money, like an allowance) on cool hats and coats and expensive wine. He heard from some...

It's been a complicated campaign, to say the least. This character got artificially aged by a necromancer (stealing youth) during character creation, so he's been a 15-year-old trapped in a geriatric body, pretending to be an archer (mages in the setting are heavily moderated and not allowed...

I'll port in whatever rules seems best, will have to poke through my old stuff.

Last session, a character got pushed into lava. It wasn't really avoidable. The monsters were intelligent and it was in their nature, and I don't pull punches in my games, and he was standing next to the lava. He instantly died. I'm all about the "rule of cool," and one of the house rules we're...

I like the idea and system, definitely have considered adding it back to my games. Look also at Dragon Magazine #218 (Skip Williams, p56). Good article on how old-school magic resistance worked and my suggestions are influenced by it. My suggestions make it a big wordier, which is...

Varies by campaign, sometimes used, sometimes not, but never as a "random encounter" like the days of old. If a dragon makes it into my game, it's likely a major NPC in some way. Dragonlance as @Stormonu pointed out really pushed for unique personalities and ancient ties (to mortals, to the...

The 5E conversion fits on EnWorld resources (linked in the above post and also fixed the original #1 post to include a dropbox option), but the Monster Manual was too big of a file, and that's why it's on Dropbox. Sorry, don't have other options to store it freely. As an update, I'm waiting on...

Twist: When I ran a "Kingmaker" campaign (Pathfinder, Celtic pantheon), our setting had the following rules/mores regarding death: If you die and are resurrected, you are treated as if you died. All your titles, inheritance, land, etc. go to your heirs. This was enforced by the god of the...

I'll address campaign humps. Been through several over the years. Thoughts: It's hard to be 100% D&D, all the time. Shake things up with a board-game day, or run an alternate system for a few sessions. Come back to D&D refreshed. It also gives you time to refresh your DM brain on ideas...