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I seem to recall in the original that Nafik's main shtick was he was unkillable unless you destroyed his organs. Aside from that it was his minions that were dangerous. I'll have a look at his 5e stat block and add any other thought in a minute. Ah, I see he stays down for 24 hours in this...

It’s like Spelljammer, apart from the spaceships look like spaceships not sailing ships.

In my experience wisdom saves are common and have serious consequences when failed. However, it only makes a noticeable difference if the character can reliably make the save, hence needing to have both proficiency and advantage.

Names of gods, countries, towns, cities, geographical features, important personages etc. But it’s not different at a fundamental level to FR and GH that it was based on.

I don’t think it’s what they were “going for” any time round (but they anticipated that they might). It’s a sandbox, the intent is the players do whatever they want with it. It's what makes it not-a-railroad, you don't intend the players to play it any particular way. Of course in BG3, yes, the...

No, I believe this version reverts to the original and it set in a setting-agnostic “Realm”. You can locate it in Greyhawk if you wish.

I’m not sure why you would think that is morally ambiguous. Plenty of very evil people have birthday parties. Moral ambiguity comes from the interpretation of the people playing, not the adventure itself, just as it always has done. And you still don’t seem to grasp that sometimes it’s the...

It’s how I do it. And yes, I have had acting lessons.

Whichever. I’ve used FR, Exandria, Eberron, Ravenloft (Dread Metrol Domain) and now we are plane hopping all over the Multiverse. Genres: Epic Fantasy, SF, horror, comedy. I did have a very brief hop into Star Trek.

Not only kitchen sink, but lots of plane hopping and genre hopping for me. My campaigns typically last about 3 years.

Of frogs? Yeah, they have an orgy in the pond every spring. Lots of corpses to fish out after.

I’ve come across a few played like that. They don’t always attack on sight, but they are always as mad as a box of frogs.

They don’t have the education of a high school student. Did you miss that? It’s not in the corporations’ interest to have universal education.

To be honest, I read it that way when I was 12. One of the reasons I thought it was a steaming pile of garbage back then. It’s been the people on this forum, with their accounts of different ways they played the adventure, that has changed my perspective. Also, reading the story it was based on.

Nothing modern about the (anti)colonialist narrative in Beyond the Black River (1935). What is modern is the desire to erase it from the history books.

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...

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