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It's practically a requirement for Soldiers, Nurses, Truckers, etc. Granted, it can take a while to acclimate to sleep/activity/sleep, and the long term health effects are not appealing. I fall into the same camp, though I do fuss about taking two long rests close together. Not to the point of...

I go the other way. Unarmed Strikes should be a finesse weapon. Magic/Holy Weapon on your fists is dripping with Rule of Cool. And a Monk/Rogue should be able to Judo Chop.

I'm just imagining this character stabbing people in the mouth to trigger all those Ingested poisons. Otherwise, those gold prices get pretty nuts. I would much rather build a trading empire or impressive fortress.

I assume the terrible stories of many gods are just "that one time they flipped out" and that most of the time they go about their business like normal. Apollo is a great example of a god that sometimes gets petty vengeance, but seems to be mellow most of the time. Of course, some gods are...

Certainly. There was a god who was banished to the other side of the heavens, since he flipped out and killed someone for creating food from their butt. There were two goddess complaining about secondhand smoke, so they took their complaints to another god. He got annoyed, chopped their heads...

We're having a conversation about the alignment of gods, which usually requires examining their actions.

Those are real myths. I did not make them up.

That's Hillsfar, on the other side of the Moonsea. Zhentil Keep and Yulash are not exactly friendly to demihumans either, but that makes a great plot hook for characters to reform those cities. Assuming they want that topic in the game at all.

Phlan from Pool of Radiance. I dont run sandbox that often, but when I do they get immediate D&D goodness with the Slums, Sokol Keep, the auction, the library, the graveyard, pyramid island, the kobold cave, and eventually Tyranthraxus himself. Its just an amazing sandbox.

He was certainly prone to doing some deeply shady things, both by our standards and those of his own people. But that's how you roll when you're a God. At least he didn't use his phallus as a bridge over a river, go soft, and drown everyone crossing over it. Or crawl up an elephant's butt in...

No maybe about it; Loki has no direct relation to Thor. Otherwise I love it!

This. Rolling in the open for dramatic moments has a massive emotional payoff for my players, since I normally hide my rolls. I often reveal it when a monster rolls a Natural 1 as well. Mostly so they can see the monster is having a bad day. :P

The biggest problem is that characters are dumb. Not the player, but the characters. We only have a limited amount of time to play the game, and need to keep things flowing. That means a huge amount of intellectual power and information gathering cannot be applied, and even when it can, the...

You don't have Line Of Effect to things behind full cover, so you cannot make Wall of Force appear inside a solid substance in the first place. So no cutting stone. However, if you manage to make something fall onto a Wall of Force, you could definitely fluff the fall damage as being cut.

First chapter is bandit lord. Second chapter is kobolds and trolls. Third chapter is goblins and bloom. At least, I think so. I can't remember exactly.

Wait. Are you the Shadow Sorcerer guy?

I can't remember the exact chapters, but the OP is about early 2-3. I made a slight reference to a future chapter, but it's just monster type.

One of the coolest variant mindflayers I've ever used could create illusions instead of Mind Blast. It used these to become the image of loved ones and friends, and try to get close enough to grapple and slurp out your brain. Imagine coming home and finding your spouse standing at the door...

I think this is a great solution. Everyone gets their weird fiction, without a dedicated psionics system or classes. Granted, I have nothing against Psionic Classes existing in a general sense, and perhaps Dark Sun is as good a place as any to put them. But if something has to be cut, I would...

Both buttons produce $1,000. Even in the novels, Psionics was never really important to the setting. There were characters who were powerful with Psionics, and the gameline expected people to know about Psionics, but it has no narrative importance. It's just a thing people have. It was never...