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Oooh, I've always wanted to run Maure Castle. I wonder how many of those Dungeon issues I have? Maybe I can track down the ones I'm missing.

What? How do you figure that? What law does this? More importantly, what does the law have to do with the Elemental Planes as presented in a game where we pretend to be elves and dragon-people? Lightning, in D&D lore, is where the Plane of Air and the Positive Energy Plane intersect. This is a...

A few monsters adjusted the difficulty of saves, especially when it involved poison. Giant centipedes gave you a +4 bonus to save against their relatively weak poison, I seem to recall a whole chart for random types of giant snake poisons in the MM2, etc. But you're right that it was the...

I love how the Greyhawk pantheon is actually several cultural pantheons that overlap in interesting ways. I do the same thing in my campaign.

You can have rituals that aren't spells already- in fact, there are a number of them in published 5e adventures, such as the yuan-ti ritual to create histachii in Tomb of Annihilation. But allowing certain spells to be rituals as well as being available for casting on the spot with spell slots...

Last session was disappointingly short, with the pcs basically finishing a big fight that started the session before and calling it a night. They were crossing a jungle, near some bubbling hot mud pits, and a group of mudmen (converted from 2e) rose up to attack. After a couple of rounds, a...

The real effect was on class selection. If you didn't have high enough scores you couldn't play some (many) classes, with the paladin's "let's start with a 17 Cha and add a few more tough requirements" being the hardest to qualify for.

Wastri's entry mentions the "Sacred Polystery". Does anyone know what a polystery is? I can't find a definition.

It's likely already been mentioned, but Star Trek: The Next Generation had an incredible finale. Especially given that it was before tv shows were so... serialized, I guess? where the episodes connect to a through plot that runs through the season and so forth... anyway, for being from before...

You really should have poked him with the pummeling, grappling, and overbearing rules in the DMG.

Well, there looks to be significant power creep for martial characters. Depending on exactly what happens to full casters, this might end up being basically rebalancing the two pc types against one another or it could be just straight up power creep overall. That said, making martial...

I argued for this hard in my feedback to all the early playtests. The later ones all seemed to lean into short rests.

Won battle, ended super early.

Right- "creature type" isn't a thing until 3e.

Has anyone mentioned the 1e incarnation of the cube of force yet?

Actually... I am a paladin/wizard.

Oh man, we had this issue where I (a paladin) would charge ahead of the group and nobody would get the benefits of my aura. Last session, I figured out (and we executed) a fantastic exploit. I have a bracelet of spell storing. After a couple of days of passing it around, now EVERYONE has a...

A pc in my 5e game has a vorpal axe whose name is Snicker Snack.

Probably not. I'll use them for special npcs or monsters once in a while, but generally won't bother.

I have to say that one of the best adventures I've had the pleasure to DM is Of Sound Mind, a fantastic low-level 3e psionics-focused adventure written by Piratecat- not sure if he is still around here. It has the best climax of any adventure I have ever run. I'll say that of the 5e adventures...