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Which is why in my home games, I moved the Red Steel subsetting forward in the timeline to 1,350 AC, one hundred fifty years after Red Arrow Black Shield is supposed to take place as per the gazetteers. Also replaced Hule as the geopolitical boogeyman of the region with a supercolony of...

To be fair, every single player I’ve ever encountered who decides to play a Ranger, well, plays them as the stereotypical Aragorn from the Peter Jackson Fellowship of the Ring movie. Well, except that one homeschooled teenaged player whose parents had never let him read Lord of the Rings, but...

It’s Gary Gygax’s setting. The World of Greyhawk presents Oerth as the medieval setting to Forgotten Realm’s renaissance. It’s a human-centric world with lots of ethnic tension. You can have two genuinely decent nations right next to each other that absolutely hate each other and would be...

It’s a running joke, except not because paleontologists will literally get into screaming matches about, well, everything to do with Spinosaurus.

I like all of them except the green dragon, something about that one just doesn’t work for me. Not sure what up with the Black’s wings either, but the rest of it looks cool. I actually like the greenish tint to its wings and dorsal spines quite a bit. Red has the nice classic look. No need...

Speaking as someone who likes his dragons wingless, I thoroughly approve.

That’s what I’m thinking, anyway.

Oh. Ah, well, thanks for the correction. It’s a really nice dragon artwork.

Liking the new designs for the Red and what I assume is a Copper dragon.

Alright, I’m back. Thinking about the , yeah, no. The sneak attack option mentioned upthread makes more sense to me. Probably have it take place after the PCs collect five of the rod’s fragments. Then it becomes a case of the PCs retrieving the sixth fragment while the folks who...

Well, I don’t have the book myself yet, but I have read quite a few spoilers for it and plan to run a reworked interpretation of the adventure in a few years time. The assorted jumble of ideas I have so far are as follows: Players will have the freedom to go after the first six pieces of the...

I have a homebrew CR 4 domesticated bulette, my dad has a Crystalline variant in his games, Critical Role has the Magma type, and now you have the Dendroid Bulette. It’s a good day to be a fan of the old Landshark.

I don’t understand either. Believe me, I realize it’s strange and weirdly specific. A certain prosperity theologian televangelist, actually. No, I’m not going to say his name. I saw him on TV once when I was two years old and used to have nightmares about his face from the ages of two to...

Short version? I blame my autism. Slightly longer version? Because aside from Dark Sun’s dwarven banshee and Mystara’s radiant lich—both of which have unique in-setting lore about them—for some unknown reason, my brain just really dislikes the concept of undead in tabletop games. Whether...

Eve of Ruin. Even though I dislike Vecna and will never, ever use him (or any part of the lore surrounding him), the truth is Eve of Ruins will be more useful for my long-term plans as a DM. I first introduced the idea of there being different worlds in my home game’s multiverse to my players...