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Seen it and done it. In Tier 1, off the top of my head: Beholder zombie, young blue dragon, the puzzle box in Descent into Avernus. Also came pretty close with a banshee. ETA: Oh yeah, forgot the basilisk. Though technically the PC was just petrified, not dead.

Are these only available if you get the mail? Maybe only for paying subscribers? I didn't hear from them.

So, that little figure that it's coming toward must be Mohammed?

From what I gather, they drifted out of the hobby sometime in the 3.5 era due to moving, families, and other "adult stuff." They skipped 4E entirely and got back together again when I started running a 5E game online. I wasn't part of this original group, but I was friends with a couple of...

Most of the players at one of my tables go back to AD&D but really got deep into D&D in the 2E era. They love 5E (2014) because it reminds them of "2E with better math," and they are sticking with it. They don't even seem interested in the 2024 version.

I'm running DiA right now and enjoying it. If the amount of material in the book looks useful, you could do worse. Depending on your party's level, you might even be able to repurpose one of the dungeons.

Key word there is "longterm." They patched things up so that they bounced back from the effects of the OGL fiasco. That doesn't mean they weren't concerned when they were in the middle of the fiasco and accounts were being cancelled so fast that it overloaded their server. (Also, they are...

Oh, if we're talking finances, then yeah, I haven't heard that WotC was worried about that. They were worried about the PR, though, and the boycott made clear just how unpopular the move was (according to the sources I know of).

Source for this? Because most people seem to think that the mass account cancellations on D&D Beyond were what got WotC to actually listen to the complaints. It may have bounced back right away afterward, but during the scandal, all sources I've seen agree that it did indeed feel the boycott.

(oops, answered my own question.)

That's also true of the 2014 rules, so that isn't driving the change in dips.

I hear it's called Project Sigil. ;)

The fact that it dropped just a few weeks after the OGL fiasco certainly didn't help. It meant that a lot of people who might otherwise have given it positive word-of-mouth publicity either boycotted it or were too ticked off at WotC to want to help them.

The fact that you use the phrase "turd polishing" suggests that you weren't enthusiastic about 5E to begin with, though.

A question just to stir the pot: In a home game that nobody is going to profit from and no outsiders are going to see, is there an ethical difference between generating AI art for various characters and using copyrighted images from the internet?

Thanks for your suggestions, everyone! Someone pointed me to the Painted Phantasm (CR 7) in Tome of Foes 3, so I wound up using that (actually, two of them) for this encounter. But my party is going to be infiltrating a wizards' stronghold soon, so I expect to need more spellcasting foes soon...

Speech to text?

Got a link, by any chance? What's insane about it? I think it's great!

Not to be a broken record, but the Adventurer's League adventures are short and official, and while they range from excellent to terrible, there are quite a lot that are decent quality or better.