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    D&D 5E (2014) Building a Better Ankheg

    Let it burrow 30ft, advantage on grab from below, grapple and retreat and tunnel collape to have its hole fill with dirt leaving victims buried prone underground with the large hungry predator.
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    D&D General Am I crazy (BBEG idea)

    Nuckalevee - combine that with the Night hag rider and go full fey horror show
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    (5.24 PBP) Vault of the Dracolich (IC) Redux

    TEAM FUSION - SUBJECT:SHADE-9 - Operation Hydra... The light from the cavern roof above the obelisk was thin and fragile and without the glow of Loklafd’s sword the shadows pooled and settled, which suited Shade-9 fine. Once the kayaks were stacked against the north wall the warforged...
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    D&D General Am I crazy (BBEG idea)

    I think it would be more fun if the centaur does know that he's cursed (but only with vague memories of what happens), but he needs to keep it secret so as to avoid Royal embarrassment. Make him a good guy, doing his job but burdened by a terrible secret he doesnt know how to deal with. He...
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    RPG Evolution: Nothing Goes to Waste

    Playing an adventuring alchemist, I've always been focussed on harvesting organic treasures - especially things like Behir bile glands, basilisk eyes or manticore stingers. Most of the time though its off camera downtime stuff, via a short discussion with the DM and maybe a survival check to see...
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    D&D General Am I crazy (BBEG idea)

    I love the idea, the Royal Warden of the Greenway, is respected by the court, feared by poachers, and whispered about by the forest’s folk, especially now that travellers and woodcutters have started to go missing. its mythic and tragic and if you can play the centaur as a good guy who the PCs...
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    Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers

    Yeah, but the South Pole is particularly extreme. At least mountains still give options for shelter - a flat sheet of windblasted ice gives you nothing
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    D&D General How would you do a fantasy mall?

    IMC Karina the "City of Judges" has Low Judges who sit on raised platforms in the Market Souk, whose job is to witness contracts and ensure fair trade occurs around them. They are served by teams of Market Guards. (The High Judges make up the ruling council of the city.)
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    D&D General How would you do a fantasy mall?

    I had that same thought in passing when trying to work out what the Red Nails city design was trying to describe too - I keep thinking, "why would anyone design a city like this, a shopping mall?" Of course there were enclosed shopping Arcades with glass roofs around Europe (dunno when they...
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    D&D General List good 3e adventures for a starting Forgotten Realms campaign?

    Outlaws of the Iron Route features Orc raiders too, so fits. Shadows over Moonsea kept to the same raiding theme and brings in pirates all tie up in Zhentarim manipulation
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    D&D General List good 3e adventures for a starting Forgotten Realms campaign?

    The Sons of Gruumsh is a good adventure and can be a good follow up to Raiders of Galath Roost, especially if you have a few more orcs and half-orcs among the raiders
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    D&D General How would you do a fantasy mall?

    The Planar Trade Consortium is already a thing in Planescape, so I could see a Great Atrium of Doors as the grand entrance to a multiplanar shopping mall- a central courtyard surrounded by spiraling promenades linking to floating portals and runic signs displaying “SALES” in 123 different...
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    D&D General What’s the Real Hellfire Club?

    Are you high ranking aristocracy, a very wealthy gentleman with 'friends' or very, very pretty (by 18th century standards)? If so, you can expect your invitation soon ...
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    D&D General What’s the Real Hellfire Club?

    The real world origin is the reason the X-Men version all dressed in faux 18th century costume (with bulging codpieces). The original club had the stated aim to satirize and mock the rigid moral codes of 18th-century British society - they were hedonist and pornographers who existed to shock...
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    Wizards of the Coast Re-Registers Dark Sun With USPTO

    Eberron was new, it did well Putting out material might have just been to prove the copyright for renewal Dark Sun. If Athas does come back, its going to be a different beast to what it was, but at least there will be psionics
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    Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers

    Which is why I looked to non-western exploration models, which tended to be more diplomatic and scholarly. Al-Masudi was a Scholar who lived in the Abbasid Empire and was commissioned by a Caliph to verify the reports of nations and beast beyond their borders - it was pure scholarly curiosity...
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    Playing "Adventurers" As Actual Adventurers

    I did a couple based on the journeys of Al-Musadi and Ibn Battuta and the like, and they are largely a set of terrain/weather based skill test punctuated with gear loss, discovery reveals and social encounters where you meet and negotiate with the locals. It can get monotonous unless the players...
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    Burger me!

    Fry bread base, venison, worchestershire sauce, beefsteak tomato, red onion, coleslaw, tomato relish Or fry bread, paua (abalone), onion
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    "You meet a mysterious stranger in a tavern." Origins?

    If you want the oldest reference Gilgamesh visits an Ale-House to get information from the woman who owns it.
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