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In 1979, I stuck the ad&d version of this in an adventure I made out of the dungeon geomorphs in the Holmes boxed set (pre-B1). Out of fondness, I made a homebrew version for my players https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/9053529-jacinth-of-inestimable-beauty

So quite commonly dragons (particularly gold, silver and bronze dragons) can change into a human(oid) form. When DMs incorporate this into their games...can dragons change into only one particular humanoid form or any humanoid form?

So 5e planescape mentions an ore called Bedlamite that is found in/near Bedlam (outlands - near gate to Pandemonium). Was this new for 5e? If older, was there any lpre about its properties (or existence) in earlier editions?

Pondering this - current DnD has many magic items as near-indestructible, contra to AD&D days where they were only marginally less vulnerable to rust monsters, fireballs etc. Pondering the idea of a buff that might put them at risk of destruction - allows for more magic item circulation...

Soo.....in one game I DM, the party has just encountered an angry huge elemental. They happen to have an iron flask that already contains a (smaller) elemental. Where we stopped for the night, battle was about to ensue. The iron flask-holder proposed releasing the elemental it contains (which...

I remember DMing in the late 70s and early 80s (Basic D&D and AD&D) and the lore of a world was made solely by the GM and the players just made their PCswith backstories but little else (well, that's how we played it and the modules seemed to concur). Fast forward to the present and there seems...

Have adapted DL1 (Dragons of Despair) to 5e and really enjoyed it (having stripped the railroading aspect out of it). Have pondered what to do next and browsed through all 5e dragon-related adventures from WOTC and felt nonplussed. Throwing it out there (I got a great recommendation of Glacier...

As the thread says - I do like the style and individuality of alot of OSR type adventures. Anyway aiming for 7-8th level - happy to adapt adventures of other levels in interesting enough.

Anyone played this? How have they found it?

High level campaign - lost city of Kintyre. Imagining original inhabitants as insectoids. Their ghosts still inhabit the sunken city. They manifest but solidifying frozen vapour and appear as semi-bipedal hexapod arthropods with psychic abilities. Using sphinx statblock as template and pondering...

One of the things I liked about AD&D and BECMI was rolling ability scores. Was pondering recently how it could be adapted to 5e and "levelling" beginning characters with feats. e.g. mid range = one feat, lucky rolling = zero feats, unlucky rolling = two feats So rating would be determining the...

My PCs have reached 20th level and I have some ideas for further adventures. So of course DMG has giving PCs epic boons every 30,000xp or so (I DM with xp), but it comes over as pretty rudimentary and basic. I just got 2C Gaming's Epic Legacy Core Rulebook and am digesting now. Pondering what...

I recall a book talking about "new subclasses" of magic user, being illusionists and witches, but I can't for the life of me recall which one it was....(vague idea it was blue basic dnd book in 1978?)...of course we got the illusionist but witch never made it to a subclass in canon

So fleshing out a campaign with a stone giant lich (the dodkong)....came up with the following...SG wight I have used...others are a WIP. Also in my world am using levels of exhaustion to simulate level drain of older editions. troglodytes I thought of as fun as the stench becomes necrotic and...

So Hellish Rebuke inflicts 2d10 fire damage plus 1d10 for each slot level above 1st. Given fire resistance is the most common resistance, if one were to reflavour this with cold/necrotic/lightning for different entities/situations, should the alternate version be de-buffed a little due to the...

I was inspired by this clip (see firepower trait at 5:05 min in) after being unimpressed by Maegera's stats in STK - to make a more interesting fire archomental. Using the Firepower trait to make Fireballs a bit more interesting. I plan on using something like this in place of Maegera to give a...

developing a statblock for Carmilla Karnstein - trying to differentiate it from normal vampire while retaining some faith to orginal novella

Okay, am DMing a group (now lvl 6) and need an adventure featuring lizardfolk in a swamp. Before I make from scratch, throwing out feelers for any adventure in any system that people really liked which I can adapt (if not 5e).

Right - filling out a yuan ti ziggurat. Found some cool lore that has not made it to 5e. Ti-Khana critters! (also good as yuan ti often higher lvl foes so having tougher sidekicks prudent) - all input appreciated

Hey Cleon (or anyone) was gonna make some crocodile mummies after seeing a youtube video on Kom-Ombo (temple of Sobek). Found normal and giant croc mummies - seem o check out on calculator...do they look internally consistent? Also tempted to make Fasolasuchus (large ambulatory hunting croc)...