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Wouldn't cavalier be "I'm a coward who also hates whatever the rest of the group wants to do - quick, hide behind my shield"?

Isn't "true silver" connected to how the word "mithril" is created in J.R.R.T.'s elvish dictionary? I remember "mith" meaning "grey".

Does anyone else feel like the DM in question expects players to learn, through experience, how to play rogues "properly" - from a narrative perspective - instead of through learning the game mechanics? Or is it just me?

My players have never really done that - but all of my long-term games have been with college students and up. Didn't do a lot of regular playing in my wild youth.

True. I'm just curious whether the designers made a balance mistake, or whether they felt that a section of the player base was unhappy with the amount of damage mitigation available to clerics. But we never get much in the way of design theory explanations, it seems.

That's not what he means - it's that Twilight is less effective at damage-mitigation-per-round if only one PC - any single PC - is taking damage each round.

Clearly someone (more knowledgeable than I) needs to post Eberron's take on the planes.

Yes, and I guess you just have to trust the player, just as you trust them to mark off the correct number of spell points used.

I use it for sorcerers only, and it seems to be popular with players - but I've never had a game with both a wizard and a sorcerer for direct comparison of play experience. I think it's a bit more powerful, but I haven't found it game-breaking.

Don't use White Plume Mountain - I recently ran a group of completely inexperienced players with 8th level pregens through it, and they slaughtered everything present with ease. You'd want to test with something slightly dangerous, or use lower level pregens.

What would you do to make a sphinx more Ravenloft-y?

I decided that if someone tried that in my game I'd just change the triggering number to "13".

Kind of says something about the monsters available in 5e that there's that big gap in the CR numbers there - 10 monsters from CR 1-6, and then 7 more for CR 12+ with nothing in between.

Agree. Maybe they were trying to get away from the original issue with Lamordia - whether Mordenheim or Adam are truly the darklord, and which is the more monstrous? OTOH, they did keep the "two darklords" thing with Borca.

I have a suspicion that the secret of high-level Ravenloft is to make the primary dilemma for the PCs not a particular fight, but a choice between two terrible options with large-scale consequences.

I want a game system with ATOMIC actions now.

I think it was an interesting contribution to the discussion.

I plan on asking my players - if they show interest in Ravenloft - what kind of campaign they'd like to do. The book has enough ideas for that. Maybe they all want to take Strahd as a patron.

I feel that Dementlieu is one of the best new domains I've seen, and if it weren't for the name reuse everyone would appreciate it more.

If this is going to go this far into real-world politics, maybe it's time to close the thread?