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A trap by itself is rarely fun. A trap as part of a larger encounter, where an enemy can push you into a pit trap or something, can be great fun.

I remember some time before Wizards bought D&D Beyond when they had a survey about what kind of electronic tools and VTTs people were interested in. I don't recall the details, but I'm pretty sure 3D stuff was mentioned in it. So that might have been the start of Sigil.

Thing is, the characters live in that world. They should know things about it. Using trolls in the Forgotten Realms as an example, the Sword Coast has multiple areas named after trolls (Trollbark Forest, The Trollclaws and Trollclaw Ford, Troll Mountains, and the Evermoors are so named because...

This seems like a good idea at first glance. It stops the major thing Incapacitation is meant to stop – trivializing boss monsters with save-or-suck spells, since you need to get them down to half hp before using them. And high-level creatures probably still have good saves, so it's definitely...

Not so much clean-up crew as AOE blasters. I've gotten some good use out of waterball*, cone of cold, and chain lightning against groups of lesser foes. These have often been able to put out some nasty damage collectively, and either taking them out right away or softening them up so the...

That's probably the major one, but the other three aspects play into the same thing.

I think there are four sources. One is that swamps are treacherous. It is, at least in stories, fairly common that a piece of solid-looking land turns out to be anything but, and instead turns out to be some kind of mud or quicksand that sucks you to your grave (yes, I know quicksand doesn't...

I'd agree if AD&D had any other way of healing in a reasonable amount of time, but it doesn't (OK, if you're using 2e psionics there's also the Cell Adjustment power, but that's hella expensive in terms of PSPs per hp). So you need a healer in the group. And clerics are it. And you can't rely on...

Specialty Priests were in a weird place in 2e, because the guidelines in the PHB were basically "Uh, I dunno, make something up and try to make it kinda balanced?" So the results of official specialty priests were eventually all over the place, with the Complete Priest's Handbook making them all...

My understanding is that that came later when Gygax was over in Hollywood trying to sell people on making a D&D movie.

Blue half dragon red dragon, or vice versa.

Which is why Healing Word and its ilk in 4e were minor actions (bonus actions in 5e parlance). Draw Steel does the same with the healing abilities of its healing classes. In 4e, Second Wind (spend your own healing surge in combat) was a major action and could be done once/encounter, whereas Draw...

I'm not aware of it being tied to specific days, but the various novels and adventures are set in different specific years with a timeline given in Beyond the Prism Pentad.

You're comparing an MSRP of $80 to a price of $60-70, which presumably includes then includes some form of discount from the MSRP of 3 x $30 = $90. Wouldn't whoever discounted the current model have a similar discount for the new one?

Ah, I found the story via the Internet Archive: https://archive.is/Eenla

Now I'm reminded of an article I read in the ancient days on the Wizards website, where a designer talked about their campaign where the PCs had learned about a white dragon and prepared to fight it with cold resistance spells and fire magic and such. Except, as they learned, it wasn't a white...