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Corpses, skulls, and bones have been used for a long time to represent death by disease (and just death in general). Walking skeletons originally symbolized the Bubonic Plague, for instance. Just something I remembered from all this disease talk.

A ghost is basically just the same dude after misplacing their body. They barely even count as dead. I don’t know a lot about Baelnorns, but I assume the means of creating one are very carefully planned out with multiple safety checks. Whereas making a zombie involves haphazardly slapping the...

Is there any guarantee that animated object corpses would walk around like a person, insead of flopping on the floor?

Hit points as meat. You get hit in the rules, you get hit in the story. We also welcome some inter-party conflict, as long as it doesn’t happen every session.

If undead are just cheap robots…you might as well skip a step and put cheap robots in your setting.

And IMO, this is the ideal. No one in my group’s campaigns have died yet (our one shots are another matter, sometimes dying in the funniest way possible is the implicit goal) but we’ve had enough close calls to show that 5e gives plenty of tools to put the pressure on the PCs. For a lore-thing...

For clarities sake, does this mean that a villain that sees the error in their ways near the end of their life and spends their last ten years doing good deeds still count as Evil? For my own position on alignment, the vast majority of people are Neutral. You really need to go out of your way...

Lulu is already basically a Magical Girl in small flying elephant form.

Medium magic probably fits best. Magic is a part of life, but not a daily part (usually). In light of the Four Curses, magic is important for the people protecting both their homes and their minds, but if things are going well this is a mostly invisible process, with the possible exception of...

I am admittedly speaking from my personal ideal rather than from how it usually plays out.

I am, if I’m being honest, not that creative. Give me a blank slate to write on and I’ll get nowhere. Give me something half-written and I’ll spend hours of head-time filling in the blanks.

It’s a question of atmosphere. Fighting people who went down the wrong path and fighting outgrowths of the fundamental wrongness of the universe should, if done properly, feel like incredibly different experiences.

There’s plenty of reasons for devils to go to war on the material plane. Safe and happy people are less likely to make deals, while people fearing for their lives, ground down by tragedy, or separated from their support structure won’t be as inclined to thing through that decision as...

Each text of the Bible was written for specific purposes. Just because some topic is only briefly mentioned, it doesn’t follow that it was all they believed about that topic.

A mad oracle says things like “our fates are decided by the roll or dice!” or “our lives are but a game to the gods.”

While making a plan, a character describes a possible failure state as “rocks fall, everyone dies.”

Hmm...cautiously interested.

I’ll go with the 5e version of Great Wheel. For one, especially with Fizbang’s, it emphasizes that “material plane” does not mean “mundane plane”. The Prime Material is an intensely magical place as befitting where the forces of the multiverse come together. It keeps the Fewild and Shadowfell...

There’s been some points about how DMs can do what they want and how not everything has to be gray, which I agree with but I also think gnolls deserve a more active defense of what makes them awesome villains. 5E gnolls are h*cking metal and Yeenogu has become my favorite demon lord based on...

That was, admittedly, kind of funny. But in my defense beholder where conceived some time before reality became a bad Political Cartoon series. Tired now, I’ll say more tomorrow if I have anything to say.