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As an aside, I am very pleased to be able to bust out my conversions of tons of old-edition oozes for this adventure. I've already used olive slime and slime creatures, mustard jellies, and spawn of Juiblex, and there are several others to come, including an arcane ooze and a few homebrews. I...

My most recent gaming pic- which I got to deploy at the very end of last night's game- is of a vomitous priest, basically a homebrewed priest of Juiblex, the Faceless Lord. This guy is a member of a cult of Juiblex that has taken over a badly damaged, partially collapsed sewer system below the...

I think this is a terrible idea, because casters definitely don't need a boost. Having the ability to alter reality with a gesture and a few magic words should require the kind of focus that means you just can't do what a fighter type can do. But this thread reads very much like a search for...

I have to say, this has a lot in common with my own "DnD Jazz" system. I like it- or at least what I have read so far. I am also doing a ten level limit (inspired by E6), but my system is farther from 5e. I'm replacing a lot of character options with feats- including classes outside of the...

A big part of the reason the 4e era digital versions flopped was that they weren't treated as a priority. The content was thin, they were late, they just didn't get the kind of love that they got when they were being run by the guys outside the company in 3e. Yes, sales and all that, but the...

Never played the game, but I loooooove the comic.

That robs the DM of the opportunity to act tactically. The party scatters, and now the dragon can only hit one target with its breath. That's absolutely not to my taste. Same problem, but in reverse. I prefer an "imprecise aim" rule; for example, instead of targeting a square with an area of...

I don't think it needed rectification. The lack of details was a feature, not a bug; Nentir Vale was a "points of light" setting, with a few detailed areas of civilization separated by swaths of darkness. By the end of 4e, it had had a lot of development (mostly via adventures, but also through...

IIRC 1e was 20 silver to the gold.

I don't have it front of me, but there was also the 4e version of Tomb of Horrors, which was basically a sequel to 2e's Return to the Tomb of Horrors. I don't recall specifically if it was set in Greyhawk, setting-agnostic, or imported into the default Nentir Vale setting, though.

I don't, but I tend to pay attention to what everyone else is doing. Also, I often have some kind of off turn reaction option that I want to use, so I watch for the right moment.

Yeah, but that would be an adventure, since it's illegal. And bear in mind that you could only spend the marks in the one city, so you are getting rich in one location at the expense of not having any money usable elsewhere!

I love seeing other peoples' weird currencies. Does anyone else have multiple different coinages in their games? I have a thing where there is the "imperial" coinage (the standard gp, ep, sp, etc) from the fallen empire whose ruins the current world is built on. And one city tried to impose a...

I don't really see the ep as a half-gold as a problem. If you are big on encumbrance, it seems to me that making it easy to carry more loot is... well, why? You already have platinum for that. As a player, I appreciate the lack of a straight 10:1 exchange in all cases. But I'm probably a little...

A magic item no one in the party wants is an opportunity to make allies by gifting it; an opportunity to make money by selling it; an opportunity to get something of value by trading it; etc. Just because you don't have a cleric doesn't mean there is not a cleric willing to promise a free...

That's one perspective. Another is that you end up with items that encourage creative use and interesting options for pcs that wouldn't otherwise have them. It's potent when your fighter has a magic weapon and armor and shield, sure, but it's cool when they have a set of boots of speed, a rope...

That is absolutely not satisfying when you're trying to make a new and unique monster. Not even a little satisfying. It might work for some dms, but not for those who like to add new stuff to the game that isn't the same as the old stuff. EDIT: Also, not everyone uses dndbeyond, and the game...

How much of the lore in the glossary actually matters for your game? How much of it improves the game? Don't get me wrong, I like the lore glossary, but versus actual useful content, it doesn't measure up.

Perhaps reduce the size of the margins on the left and right by 1/8". That would create a good number of pages. It's hard to say what content I'd cut; I haven't had the chance to read the whole thing yet, just bits and pieces.