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I have a house rule that time freezes during a villainous monologue, so no interruptions are possible. I refuse to run a game if I can't monologue from time to time. The same rule applies to heroic monologues, but none of my players have ever used the opportunity to make one.

"Skewered" isn't actually one of Pathfinder's 693* conditions, so it was just poetic license. * actual number of conditions in the game may vary from amount stated

You could always have the enemy's pet parrot repeat the information to the PCs. Hey, it worked for James Bond ...

My closest call in a long time was actually last session (of Pathfinder 1st edition, 5th level characters). One of the players couldn't make it, so we were missing a fighter, and were facing down a harpoon-wielding half-orc barbarian and his minions. Our alchemist was slaughtering the minions...

If there is a 5th edition version, it needs to be renamed the Yeofolkry.

That was in Dark Sun.

PO had no interest in balance. Hopefully WotC does, so they have no need to learn that lesson. I seem to remember designing a Githyanki character which gained extra points (to spend on combat abilities) due to being unable to lie. I was only a teenager at the time, but even then I knew that was...

I'd be happy with a short setting document that had very basic setting details - deities and domains, and maybe some backgrounds, a discussion of races and subclasses, a brief timeline - and then opening Greyhawk up on DMs Guild with an express statement that people can write stuff for any time...

It's called the Free City because it is a city state. That doesn't make it very special, as there are a couple of other city states nearby, although Greyhawk is the biggest of them so it sometimes dominates its neighbours (depending which version of the setting you are using). Its rise to...

Some of us now have you to "thank" for it :)

Tower 2 has pretty much the same set-up, this time with elves who want 1/3 of your magic items. The PCs aren't on a quest to save the world. They are basically looting ruins for fun and profit. I suspect the reaction of most players to this set-up would be to decline to play the adventure. (Or...

Assuming you mean Greyhawk Ruins, the Dwarves do not "attack everybody". They refuse access to "their" tower unless the party agree to their terms. This may well lead to the PCs trying to force their way in, but it doesn't amount to they "should be attacked by PCs intent on exploring".

There is a Ghostwalk "Let's Read" on the Gaming Den. (They call it an "OSSR" over there.) Since it's the Gaming Den, it isn't "family friendly".

You might have seen it already, but the Alexandrian blog has lots of good ideas for improvements to Descent Into Avernus. Alexandrian on Avernus I'm going to have to strongly disagree with you here :)

I don't like them much either, but I can see why they did it. (Although I thought adding the key skills afterwards was part of the character generation process, rather than being an option.) If you're running a traditional free-form game then I agree it detracts from the distinct feel of...

And even if they do feel they have to use the current timeline, I have no doubt Paizo will come up with lots of new villains, threats and crises. And how many groups of players are heavily invested in defeating "Villain X", when their characters have never even met them? I doubt anybody in my...

Only in D&D land would a suggestion that two groups of strangers NOT fight each other to the death be viewed as unreasonable. Probably not even in D&D land would a suggestion to "naughty word off" receive the response of "I'm sorry, could you be a bit more more specific?" If they were having an actual...

I think Lamashtu works well as an overlord. She even has an appropriate title, Mother of Monsters. To fit in with Overlord naming conventions (as per Keith Baker's recent blog post), I'd probably rename her Lah Mashtu but that's just me. I'd never thought of running Rise of the Runelords in...

I wouldn't describe it as pure Vance. Jack Vance had several different magic systems in the Dying Earth stories. And Turjan of Miir, by all accounts a powerful wizard, could only carry 4 spells at a time. I'm not sure what this has to do with sci-fi scenarios.

Thank you, I knew there was something that I was missing! We disagree about what "agree to play a module" means. If the GM says "I've come across this module that I think is wonderful. I had been burned out on D&D for a while, but it has got me enthused again. I'd like to get a group of...