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AngryDM had an article about this when 5e was in development. Basically, he agrees that they're "trap monsters", or better yet "puzzle monsters" - and that a lot of DMs do like them. But, as Hussar said, if you want to use them as puzzles you have to play fair, and that means giving clues...

I hope I haven't missed this answer: What's the disclaimer on the front page say?

This is where, for all its detractors, Forge-speak can come in handy. I suspect MajoruO's players have different expectations from a D&D game than yours do, or mine. I wouldn't be surprised if his players are fully in the mode of "the DM provides a challenge for us to overcome" and are more...

I like SkidAce's picture better anyway. Where's that from?

Well, it's not properly a torus - but if you imagine the inside of a bicycle tire, with the "sky" where the open part is, you get a city that's got no end in one direction but has walls on the sides.

As a Planescape fan, I don't think I'd ever realized a design intent that you could go "sideways" in Sigil and wrap around to the other side of town. And I'd always enjoyed introducing primes to Sigil with the "and the city extends to the horizon and goes up ... up ... up until you can see the...

My wife went through about eight sessions before something finally failed the save vs. her Sacred Flame.

Maybe the problem with "save the world" plots - apart from overuse - is the lack of a real narrative question. OF COURSE the PCs want to save the world. It's where their stuff is. Maybe they should do a path where the players have to decide whether the world deserves saving or not.

In the old Baldur's Gate game, characters with infravision could see the monsters illuminated with red when you were fighting at night. Undead monsters lacked this marker.

The Kuo-Toa Whip is CR 1 and has 65 HP. And it's a spellcaster. Does this make sense?

Harpies are definitely buzzards, or vultures. (Buzzard is a weird term in ornithology.) But they have other baggage you may not want. Honestly, if you want the carrion-bird-humanoid, you use tengu/kenku. Or Vrocks. I suspect the existing stats don't really reflect what you want them for -...

The idea is to protect the book that the wizard carries around. If the book is supposed to stay on the table, glyph of warding works fine. But if you pick the book up it goes off.

I'm placing a wizard's spellbook in my dungeon, and just noticed that there don't seem to be trap spells any more. Explosive Runes, which has been moved under Glyph of Warding, specifically can't be placed on objects designed to be moved. Even Arcane Lock seems to make using it on a book...

How do you guys narrate auto-saves anyway? From a rules-fairness POV, you want to imply to the players that this is a special, limited use ability separate from "Wow, he just rolls really well".

Well, easy enough in a "balanced encounter? what is this balanced encounter you speak of?" way.

It's simple, guys. A halberd is a kind of cleaver on a stick. A glaive is a five-pointed switchblade throwing star thingy that is only outmatched by the power of love.

What if we make it a LG society that "reeducates" (brainwashes) those convicted of repeated criminal acts? And a CG society that gives citizens every opportunity to gainfully employ themselves, but won't help you one cent if you don't take those opportunities? Those societies would be...

I'll take you at your word here - but have you never met someone who passive-aggressively says "no, really, I'm fine, play without me" as a way of getting the group to do what they want instead? I think that's what other people are questioning.

I always felt that ones belief in Good is the ideal, that you wish the best for all people, and that your Lawful/Chaoticness is in how you evaluate the methods used to attain that end. A lawful person feels that order is more important than personal liberty, and although both are nice to have...

Our group settled on a Tempest Cleric, an Evoker Wizard, a Path of Shadows Monk, and an Oath of the Ancients Paladin.