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It's generally simple enough in my games, and it's an option that the players take at least once every 4-6 sessions. I use battlemaps and minis for significant battles, and theater-of-the-mind for simple stuff. Fleeing isn't an issue in the latter, so there's almost always a battlemap involved...

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Best formatted book for simply conveying setting knowledge, in my experience, is the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer. Sure, it's dry... but the nations are all presented in alphabetical order, in a consistent format, with summary info at the start. You also get a complete list of deities, terrain...

Regarding the box... The player is given clear and unambiguous instructions that they must not open the box under any circumstances. If they've already received the box, then a breathless messenger arrives (or an animal messenger or a sending) that conveys the same message. I'm assuming they...

I also agree with the secondary effects occurring, even if the primary damage is negated. Perhaps shocking grasp creates a sudden flare of light that momentarily dazzles the target, even if they're immune to lightning? Or perhaps the magic directly attacks the nervous system (or animus, or...

As per the 5e PH, a gallon of ale costs 2sp and a skilled hireling costs 2gp per day. Hence, the answer is obvious: 1) You build a pool approximately 267 feet long, by 125 feet wide, by 10 feet deep. You fill it with ale (500,000gp = 2.5 million gallons). 2) You then hire 100 nubile...

Assuming the axe does a base 1d8 damage, the changes above seem to indicate that it does +0.5 damage (from the "cannot roll a 1" ability, which pushes average damage up from 4.5 to 5) and doubles the crit range. If you hit on a natural 11 or better, it is adding a +10% chance of an additional 5...

There are a bunch of other fiends that aren't demons or devils. Nightmares, yugoloths, succubi, cambions, etc. Fiend is the generic 5e term for "creature from the Lower Planes"; i.e. Nine Hells, Gehenna, Grey Waste, Carceri, Abyss... and perhaps Acheron and Pandemonium. By the context of your...

Rakshasas were listed as possible inhabitants of the Nine Hells way back in the 1e Monster Manual II, but note that the same table that indicated their rarity on each of Hell's layers also listed other non-native creatures like mephits, daemons, nightmares and hoardlings. Dragon magazine...

Interesting. I'm guessing the numbers helped. I ran the big finale fight, with 3x 11th level PC (having drunk the potions of giant size, so on double maximum HP) accompanied by two storm giants on about 100 HP each (approximately equal to another two 11th level characters). It was a near thing...

Huh. As a player (mostly DM) for 30+ years, my gut response would have been "spell-casting". But this is one of those rare threads which have actually made me revise my own views. I'm swayed by those who have posted previously that shape-shifting is the unique druid ability. If you can only keep...

...and, what the heck, just because I know it will trigger some people: 4) "Drizzt's Guide to the Underdark" (oozes, subterranean humanoids, aberrations).

I'd like to see a similarly-themed series of books using other well-known scribes and experts... 1) "Van Richten's Guide to Horrors" (undead, were-creatures, golems). Rudolph van Richten is the primary expert in monster-kind from the Ravenloft setting. 2) "Xanxost's Guide to Planar Perils"...

Do you have a copy of In the Cage: A Guide to Sigil? This was a 2nd edition accessory, and would provide a ton of flavor and story hooks for a modern Sigil campaign. You could pick up a PDF copy from DrivethruRPG. It's mostly rules-agnostic; very little of the content is specific to 2e. Another...

Some other ideas... 1) Clerics, in 5e, aren't your traditional mace-wielding heal-bots from earlier editions (or how they're portrayed in some other RPGs/CRPGs). Some domains provide proficiency in heavy armor and martial weapons, which allows you to go the plate-and-sword route. Even if your...

I think it sounds pretty great; it seems well-balanced for a 5th level character. A few suggestions... 1) I'd spell out the effect of the entangle rather than referring to the spell. For example, the spell locks people in place with magical plants. By contrast, the whip is probably the object...

I love it when my players spam ritual spells in dangerous situations, because I always play intelligent enemies as... intelligent. Enemy Group #1 hears an approaching caster rambling away with magic words every round, usually from 50-100 feet away. In a quiet house with no nearby car traffic, I...

I intend to just double the scale. 15' squares are a bit annoying, but 20' squares are easy. Looks better on a battle map too, once the minis get slapped down on the table.

Four years ago (real-time), one of my players had a huge ruby pick-pocketed from his character before he managed to get it valued. Every campaign since, that one missing gem gets compared to every other gem that the party finds. "Yeah, but remember that huge ruby my ranger found? That was even...

You call that serious? At my table, the players are forced to roleplay it out when they roll on the random harlots table. We're all overweight middle-aged guys, and the DM delegates the role of the NPC. No fun is involved, I assure you.