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Then why is Vecna even there in the cave, expending so much effort that he's lost his divine power, instead of chillin' in some totally hidden and impenetrable place, enjoying a beverage while the ritual finishes without him?

is that how you would run it, as DM? The PCs waste Vecna, he turns into a puff of smoke, which dissipates, and then you'd say, "Somehow the ritual finishes anyway; you all lose, and the multiverse is screwed. Thanks for playing!" While the encounter text doesn't describe what happens if the PCs...

Same.

The stat block is also clear in that Vecna becomes a disembodied spirit if dropped to 0 hp, with the strong implication that he's at least relatively harmless while in that state. And I don't get how the ritual would continue without Vecna there. He's clearly expending a lot of effort to keep...

I was actually hoping for better with the Spelljammer adventure. For one, it's not really a Spelljammer adventure at all, it's an Astral Sea adventure that happens to contain a broken spelljamming ship. Which is fine, but I have some issues with the map. For one, the midsection of the ship is...

Ah, I see. Yeah, that seems like a mapping error, but... does it matter? From what I can tell, those two chambers serve no purpose. In fact, I'm doubtful about the whole setup; all this stuff with the walls and the doors feels kind of pointless. In play, it seems like the PCs will eventually...

I don't see a meaningful difference in the two outcomes. If the PCs kill Vecna: However, if they "achieve victory" by using the Chime to banish him to Oerth: You have to assume he's coming back in either case. If you kill him, at least you know you've got a year to prepare, if not more.

I haven't actually gotten to this section of the adventure yet, but I was curious about these criticisms, so skipped ahead. What do you mean? The text says this: Yeah, that's weird, and likely an oversight as @MerricB said. I guess you could play him without that feature if you're strictly...

Maybe you need to take some more time to read through the description of Wave Echo Cave, because your criticisms are, frankly, bogus. Every inhabitant of the area has a reason for being where it is, which is explained in the text. How the BBEG and his minions get to where they are in the cave is...

Sure it is. I like all three of those, just as I enjoy a lot of other space opera. But a subgenre classification doesn't fully define anything; Star Wars and Star Trek can be very different from each other even if they're both accurately, and usefully, described as space opera. You might as well...

That's not the case for vision, though; in the real world, there are very few species that surpass human beings in terms of visual acuity and color perception. Vision is a human superpower in the real world, so it's funny to consider that in a D&D world, most intelligent species might feel sorry...

My daughters (now in their 20s) are bigger fans of the D&D cartoon than I am. One of them started crying when I showed her that WizKids is coming out with a Uni miniature. (She played Uni as her first D&D character when she was 4 or 5.) I don't know how many parents like us there are, but Gen...

So, for some reason I've seen this stated many times in this (and the other) thread, but I haven't seen anyone mention that... there is a whole section that describes evidence that could be discovered at any time by the PCs (with skill DCs and everything), and discusses the consequences for the...

I wouldn't say that's as black-and-white as you're stating it... Is there a word for "well beyond the capabilities of ordinary mortals"...?

I reject this as a description of my experience, and of Kara-Tur in general. When I was young, I wasn't reading Marco Polo, I was watching Godzilla, The Seven Samurai, or The Five Venoms. Kurosawa or the Shaw Brothers weren't engaging in Orientalism; they were making products for local Asian...

Given this comment: ...and the lean-in to elements from D&D history for the 50th anniversary year, I'm wondering if this art piece is meant to depict the ruins of the city of Cauldron, from the Shackled City AP.

Star Wars is space opera, but the fantasy elements aren't what make it that: There's plenty of straight-up science fiction that counts as space opera. Star Trek is space opera. The Foundation series is space opera, as is the Dune series, Niven's Known Space, Saberhagen's Berserker series...

Does Dunedin, NZ (or maybe Dunedin, FL?) have Rangers? That sounds pretty cool! ;)

This is a cool exhibit! Anne McCaffrey seems like an odd omission, though. But I'm sure we could come up with a lot more, and there's only so much room in those cases.

Or the PCs have temporarily summoned a gold dragon to help them soften up the red. Or the gold dragon is an illusion meant to create doubt in the red's mind. Or it's actually the 6th member of the party, a wildshaped druid of the new Circle of Dragons.