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Just out of curiosity, something I see mentioned from time to time was that unearthed arcana was considered bad or unusable. I remember reading it back in the 90s and liking some stuff about it, but I never used it in 2e (which I was playing at the time). I probably didn't have as critical an...

That's not quite how I read the OP, but I might be wrong.

It might not say it in current DnD, but it's fairly common in fiction that people need the spark of magic before unlocking the ability to make use of it.

I make no distinction between wizard and sorcerer, both need inborn power in the fiction. Warlocks borrow power.

Yeah, DnD faiths and pantheons are a little weird since, while the common people might worship the pantheon, clerics have been shoehorned into worshiping a very specific god, often forsaking the others. I think also the pantheons often don't feel like one, the forgotten realms pantheon just...

Sorry, I don't mean to say every adventure is a dungeon, just that the adventure I created in the forest was. It had clearings (rooms), forest paths (dungeon corridors) linking them and various encounters in the clearings or on the paths. The only real difference was that unlike a dungeon, you...

Mate, you don't need to be so defensive, this is just a conversation, I'm not attacking you, I'm just giving an alternate perspective on how it might work. I even agreed that it might become common practice, even if the average person can't afford the resources.

That was actually a thing in 3e (having just looked it up), the soul might not even want to come back which would cause the spell to fail. I can imagine some arguments around the table if a player said "No, I'm good" after their friends spent time and money organising a raise dead for them :ROFLMAO:

Sacrificing to before a sea voyage Umberlee makes sense to me. If there is a god of the seas that might drag you down to the bottomless depths of the ocean, it wouldn't be surprising for someone to make an offering before the trip. If you're a farmer inland who follows the faerunian pantheon but...

Maybe this would be a thing for the wealthy, but even in 5e a 500gp diamond is likely out of reach for the majority of the population. Which isn't to say that keeping the body preserved for 10 days wouldn't become a a common ritual as you've outlined here, but, for example, I don't think many...

I've created an adventure in a forest that was essentially a dungeon with permeable walls. I had clearings that were linked by paths but nothing stopped players going off the beaten track. For each clearing I had different encounters, some of them knew about other clearings (as in what was in...

I sort of wonder how much a typical inhabitant would "know" about the way things work. There are priests of the gods who claim how the world works but most of the followers of the gods would have to take it on faith. Just because priests have magic doesn't mean it is necessarily divine, after...

That's like, a 100% increase in authors that I thought used it! I had no idea about Anderson, I always thought it was just a Moorcock creation.

Not surprising considering its origin was from a single author as a background to his stories. Alignment has moved from "Do you align with the cosmic forces of Law or Chaos" to become instead each characters moral compass. It can be a useful tool to help determine how your character acts but I...

Overrated since 3e with the increase in monster hit points.

I follow the baldurs gate/icewind dale games and allow all warriors to specialise in multiple weapon groups. Mastery or better is typically a fighter only ability (but kits might allow others better capability)

My use would probably be a negative amount, I don't really like mythos in my DnD games to the point where someone who wanted to play a GOO warlock was told that there would be no interaction with the old ones and that at best it could be a warlock that followed demons and the fiend warlock could...

I can't remember where I read this, it might have been in a 3e book or dungeon article, but one of the things about the 9 hells was that even though they might be suffering now, the souls want to be there. The enticement of future power and moving up in the fiendish hierarchy is worth a...

I liked it more when it had effects tied to it, I even used it ages ago when running an old thunder rift adventure where anyone who was evil (originally chaotic) would set off a defence in a wizard's sanctum. 3e had various effects such as weapons that dealt more damage to evil or needing a...

Most likely be designing your own background (skills, feats, etc) and then providing a sentence or two rather than a name for the background.