2014 Fun Fact: If I were doing PH chapter 4 over again, there are bonds and flaws I'd probably move to the other category.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) February 5, 2020

2014 Fun Fact: Writing the flaws tables in chapter 4 of the PH, I used these categories to spark ideas: Lust or gluttony, pride or envy, greed or sloth, wrath or enemy, secret weakness or shame, secret misdeed or forbidden lore.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) February 5, 2020

2014 Fun Fact: Writing the flaws tables in chapter 4 of the PH, I used these categories to spark ideas: Lust or gluttony, pride or envy, greed or sloth, wrath or enemy, secret weakness or shame, secret misdeed or forbidden lore.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) February 5, 2020

2014 Fun Fact: For bonds, I used these: Who—me; Who—family or colleagues; Who—benefactor or romance; Place; Possession; Goal.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) February 5, 2020

2014 Fun Fact: I made spreadsheets to help me track ideals, bonds, and flaws. I use spreadsheets a LOT. Few of them make heavy use of numbers.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) February 5, 2020

2014 Fun Fact: I feel like there are other Austen and/or Gilbert quotes hiding in those tables in chapter 4, but I can't remember or find them. The urchin's ideals do reference the Magnificat…

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) February 5, 2020

2014 Fun Fact: As you can probably tell, I feel a great deal of pride for those tables. Whenever I hear someone quote them back to me—they've made them their own, part of the character they're playing—I'm just delighted.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) February 5, 2020

Hey @Dan_Dillon_1 @JeremyECrawford @ChrisPerkinsDnD @TheEdVerse, what is the group name for a group of oozes (i.e. murder of crows, flamboyance of flamingos, etc)? #dnd #rpg #importantquestions

— Dan Stivers (@dan_stivers) April 27, 2020

Beware of a tapioca of oozes! #DnD https://t.co/H8irTZbfvD

— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) April 28, 2020

2002 Fun Fact: City of the Spider Queen includes stat blocks for 18 named drow NPCs and 19 generic drow, not counting all the drow ghosts, vampires, revenants, keening spirits, half-dragons, wererats, and silveraiths.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 20, 2020

2002 Fun Fact: Here’s the distribution of drow NPC stat blocks (named and generic) in City of the Spider Queen, by challenge rating. pic.twitter.com/JyFgbSNiVg

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 20, 2020

Yeah…..

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 20, 2020

2002 Fun Fact: The 5e Monster Manual and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes include 10 different stat blocks for drow. But add in the various NPCs—especially higher-level spellcasters in Volo's Guide—and you can cover a LOT of the drow in CotSQ.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 20, 2020

Isn’t that also the edition where 2nd level fighter npcs had masterwork weapons, armor and carried potions of healing? Yes. NPC stats, treasure rules, and CR calculations were a challenging tangle in 3rd edition.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 20, 2020

So while the heroes of the novels (including a draegloth!) venture into the Abyss to uncover the reason for Lolth's silence, the heroes of the adventure have to deal with drow activity in Faerûn that is the result of Lolth's silence.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 20, 2020

2002 Fun Fact: Early playtests of City of the Spider Queen led to characters wheeling barrows full of +1 rapiers out of the dungeons and back to town. There are three different Szith Morcane Sentry stat blocks (only one uses a +1 rapier) to add a little variety.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 20, 2020