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I bake it into the save. If the target crits on the save, they can do one of the following: 1) reduce the damage to 0, 2) allow a nearby ally to reroll their failed save or 3) bounce the spell back at the caster (who saves with advantage, but if there was damage the original target take 1/2...

Another thought: The party is accosted by a Pit Fiend and a Balor who demand the party to be arbitrators in a (verbal) dispute they are having. The two threaten to do something vile to the party or those close to them if they do not cooperate and will follow through if refused. If the party...

A lot of time, the advice I see is white room theory or pushing something really hard on a 1% or so difference or mostly a matter of preference. Sometimes though, it does feels spot on. Overall though, I find my own experience with something is the best teacher - discovering what I like and...

Yes, that's true - but it's not because of the rarity of knowledge, but by the rarity of the power needed by the individual to accomplish the task. It leans into the idea of a pre-industrial Master Craftsman laboring over a masterpiece versus someone going on an archeology hunt for old magic...

An idea from a visual novel video game I recently played: Recently, the God of Death has had a soul-shaking experience that has left them now longer willing to cull the living. This manifests during the party's next encounter (which should start out as fairly minor), when after reducing foes...

Nah, though that's a bit of "lost knowledge" in Greyhawk lore with the fall of the Suelese empire (and FR with Netheril?). Old D&D just had a requirement you had to be 9th level or better (name level) to start creating magical items - starting with potions and getting access to creating more...

I don't think a new setting needs to be something to push 5.5 exclusively - it would be fine if it could be adapted to other, older editions as well. To me, the draw would be that it's new. It's not a rehash but a new world we haven't seen before that isn't an attempt to skew a MtG's 5-color...

I could go for a 1600's or so setting, perhaps along the lines of 7th sea (without the direct faux european countries), with muskets, advanced alchemy, rudimentary steampunk and the beginnings of technomagic.

I think TSR was at its best when it was making campaign worlds - many are still beloved today. WotC seems to have handed that off to the 3PP, but I'd really like to see a handful of new worlds come out. I'm fine with one-and-done releases of a campaign world (though revisiting and expanding is...

Or decouple saves from ability scores altogether and put them at fixed values, possibly by class and level - more akin to 1E/2E. Just be less arbitrary with the save names (I'd be comfortable with using Fort, Reflex, Will and have spells target one of the three).

Had to make a small change to mine - Worldbuilding has become front and center; I have a dozen journals I've bought in the last couple of years and am slowly working through them, building a new world in each. I'm up to 7 now (Dragons Must Die, Scions of Sckalmandra, Traders of Mabib, Blood...

Could certainly pull in some ideas from the recent Alien: Earth for this.

With the lead time on design, I'd say look at what was popular/going on about 12-18 months back from when any D&D product comes out - that was probably when the project was green-lit. I don't keep up with Fallout (only ever played a bit of Fallout 3), but it seems like that would more likely...

The Drain Rift also brings up an interesting point - trash disposal. Any ideas? <Edit> Also, disposal of the dead.

It'd probably look like the Bloodstone Land adventures.

Been looking through my (electronic) copies of Dragon, trying to find an article related to the above. I remember it's one of them, talking about Athas possibly being the far future version of one of TSR's campaigns (I was thinking Greyhawk, but perhaps FR). It was among a couple articles of...

I've used it to drive the singular actions of my characters sometimes, but always with the knowledge that D&D is a group game, and the group only survives when it's coherent. So, stuff like betraying the party, stealing from party members and the like are right out. Rivalrlies - like the one...

I seem to recall one of the Hoard of Tiamat/Tyranny of Dragon books having a fabulous picture of Tiamat standing amid her hoard, but I forget where I saw it. This, unfortunately, was the highest res I could find: One thing I do remember about the picture is the gold statues - perhaps...

Also, the noble families of Cynelsa being half-elf. Not in they directly have one human/one elf parent, but that within the last few generations (3?) having an elvin or sylvan descendant. There is enough intermixing of half-elvin blood that the nobility counts back as far as 6 generations of...