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Team Fusion - Terrin Terrin conceals the light of his lamp at Shade-9's request by removing it from the end of his staff and replacing it into his backpack. He cautions his warforged companion about his course of action. "Although you appear as one who is crafted, I perceive that who or what...

This one hasn't faded in relevance:

Majid Khademi, intelligence chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed in a joint U.S.-Israeli strike.

Fearing being noticed by the stirges and knowing sneaking is not a talent with which he is endowed, Terrin holds his shield to block their view of the silvery light emanating from the lamp hanging from the end of his staff and pauses to place a hand on his mail-clad breast, uttering a harsh...

Stephen Lewis, Canadian diplomat, politician, and human rights advocate, has died of cancer at the age of 88.

The AD&D PHB (p 33) has this about CE alignment: Chaotic Evil: The major precepts of this alignment are freedom, randomness, and woe. Laws and order, kindness, and good deeds are disdained. Life has no value. By promoting chaos and evil, those of this alignment hope to bring themselves to...

Esmail Khatib, Iran’s intelligence minister, was killed in a strike overnight in Tehran.

Ali Larijani, Iran's security chief, and Basij commander Gholamreza Soleimani were both killed in an Israeli strike on Tuesday.

I think it's pretty well established anecdotally that an author, in a non-RPG context, can be surprised, in the process of writing, by what their character(s) do(es), so I don't think that's what's at stake here. I think it's more about mechanics vs player having (some) authorship over the...

I'm not @pemerton either, but, to quote Vincent Baker, it's "things that no vigorous creative agreement would ever create" -- "outcomes that upset every single person at the table." It's "things that if you hadn't agreed to abide by the rules' results, you would reject." I hope that helps.

Assuming a best case scenario of five easy encounters preceding the final encounter, I'd be comfortable with CR 3. Eta: Not that I have a CR limit for a single creature. I reduce number of creatures to fit within the daily XP budget, but I don't go below one no matter what the creature's CR is...

Bernard Lafayette, civil rights pioneer who joined Freedom Rides and fought for voting rights in the Jim Crow South, has died at the age of 85.

Yanar Mohammed, prominent Iraqi human rights defender and feminist advocate, was killed in an armed attack on her home in Baghdad Monday.

He is falsehood (Old Persian drauga), "the Lie" of which Darius the Great speaks in the Behistun Inscription. In Asiatic Mythology (Hackin, J. et al.), one of the sources sited in "Appendix 4" of Deities and Demigods, author Clément Huart calls him (it?) the "principle druj" which he seems to...

3. Describe the ambusher beginning their attack, which starts combat and "surprises" those combatants who were unaware. Then everyone rolls Initiative (surprised creatures with disadvantage). Anyone whose Initiative is higher than the ambusher's has time to take their turn before the ambusher's...