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You just reminded me of a very good article called "Inns in an Instant". It included a tavern name generator, tables of names for inn employees from a number of races, multiple menus that varied based on locale (including a menu for an inn in the Underdark), and random tables for things you...

Of all the content you've ever seen from Dragon Magazine or Dungeon Magazine, what really stood out to you? I'll go first: The various features on different famous/infamous beings of the multiverse were always a treat. I loved the Demonomicon of Iggwilv series, and during the 4E era I...

I've missed both Dragon Magazine and Dungeon Magazine, and IMO Dragon+ was a poor successor. The only thing I remember liking at all from Dragon+ was the small number of articles (and by small number I mean like maybe 2 or 3) detailing a couple of new NPCs with statblocks and backstories. I...

I don't have anything against Ideals and all, but I am amused that alignment survived when apparently they haven't.

What about an Abyssal adventure anthology visiting some of the more obscure layers of the Abyss?

I'd personally be more interested in conversions of Dungeon Magazine adventures, which we got a few of in Ghosts of Saltmarsh.

The Piety system used in Mythic Odysseys of Theros could work well for mechanically supporting alignment.

Stormwrack! That was my first exposure to the hadozee. I had no idea at the time about their origins.

So I noticed that, for whatever reason, they decided to make the entire book available in the full-size preview, which means that it's possible to download the entire book as a PDF for free (albeit with the text "sample file" across each page). Not a very good business decision TBH.

That was what they were in 4E. Giants were still Large then, but there were also Huge titans. That might have been an inspiration for the Huge giants of 5E.

The first thing that jumps to my mind is the 4E boxed adventure Madness at Gardmore Abbey, which revolved around collecting the cards of the Deck of Many Things and using individual cards to activate special abilities.

They might call themselves that even if they think they are right, though, and that "Good" isn't actually good. There are people who call themselves Satanists despite the negative connotations and the fact that they do not actually worship or believe in Satan, after all.

I was unaware of this, but it sounds fascinating. I need to look into it.

That's why I personally don't put much emphasis on Good and Evil when I DM or in arbitrating what is Good or what is Evil. I'm much more interested in Law and Chaos, which I personally find easier to define in a way that I don't think would step on many people's toes. To me, Lawful just means...

I'll go back and try to make my post as non-specific as possible, then, while still trying to get across that I think Gygax was influenced by a point of view that regards violence as good (and conducive to order) when it is applied to "the wicked" so that "evil" (which is conducive to disorder)...

I've dabbled in alignment debates before and arguments over how they should be defined, but at this point I think I'm more curious about what the original inspirations and intent for alignment were. We have several quotations from a 2005 thread on Dragonsfoot where Gary Gygax made certain...

The use of the term "astral dominions" is particularly interesting to me as that was the term for the realms of the gods in 4E. Perhaps in the new Spelljammer astral dominions will be something along the lines of Planescape's gate-towns.

I wonder if Malcanthet will ever get another official mention. 4E at least mentioned her a handful of times.

I forgot about this and just happened to see that it's currently live. Interesting to hear that the demon Pazuzu apparently has something to do with this adventure.