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I was referring to the people saying they wouldn't buy it tbh. That's usually the meaning of the idiom to which I was so subtly alluding: that one shouldn't dismiss the contents of a book based upon one's opinion of its cover. I don't think anyone really uses it to mean, like, "buyer beware".

Lot of people seemingly deciding not to buy this book based solely on the cover which, as we all know, is something you should always do. [Edited for clarity!]

It's the Dungeon Master's Guide, not Venger's Guide!

Yeah, that's also a solution, but I think it requires more steps because his ritual is incredibly vague anyway, and you don't lose anything from the adventure by changing that one aspect of it. Like, you can run the whole thing precisely as written, except for whenever it mentions Vecna's...

I feel like this is kind of coming at it backwards: the gods demonstrably don't care in the adventure, which robs the premise of some of its internal logic. You need to dial back the scope so the fact that the gods aren't involved directly makes sense. To put it in perspective, there's a bit...

One really fundamental but also somehow really simple change I'd make to this adventure if I ran it is that I wouldn't make the stakes as high as they are. I get why they wanted to cap off 5.1e and celebrate 50 years of D&D or whatever with a HUGE THREAT TO THE WHOLE MULTIVERSE but, like, I...

Human, probably.

They're the old action figures, who also appeared as NPCs in Wild Beyond the Witchlight!

Fun fact: the essay that gave us the phrase "death of the author" was published over 15 years before Elmore painted that box art.

Yeah, fair point. They don't even include the walking speed for goalposts in those tables.

Pages 246-7 of the DMG.

Its Web Bomb does more damage, altogether - 24 basic, plus 10 to the target and 10 to anyone close by. So 44, for the purposes of CR calculation, meaning a total of 70. Also, it restrains anyone it hits. So I make its offensive CR 14, while its defensive CR is 21 (AC 18, 310 hit points, 3 x...

Even if one of a number of healing spells would work to 'heal' what is, as you say, normal human variation, who's to say everyone who might benefit from it can access it? We have to assume there's a functioning magical healthcare economy for that, which is by no means a given in every setting...

Some of the wealthiest and most successful people in the world today wear glasses. I don't know why, in a D&D world that has theoretically developed magical solutions to impaired vision comparable to modern laser surgery, there needs to be some elaborate reason that a wizard that is...

Uh oh!

Let me see if I can follow this: she shouldn't have a floating staff or glowing runes floating around her because there isn't a specific spell that allows a wizard to do that in the game, but she also shouldn't have glasses because of some nebulous notion of readily-available magical healing...

So, on a quick skim of the core books, these are all the named characters I could identify in various art pieces: PHB Cover: fire giant King Snurre (from the Hall of the Fire Giant King adventure) Pg 13: Bruenor Battlehammer (Forgotten Realms) Pg 21: Drizzt Do'Urden (Forgotten Realms) Pg 42...

Whoa whoa whoa...you can search for elements of the art like that on Scryfall?! This thread was worth it just for finding that out.

I think the idea that a wizard shouldn't wear glasses might be the biggest reach I've read here so far. Yes, heaven forfend the nerd class look like a nerd.

It sure is a shock to see a bunch of dudes on the internet not liking this piece of art in particular for vague reasons.