design tip: when creating an encounter, ask yourself three questions over and over:

–how is this cool and interesting narratively?
–how is this cool and interesting for players?
–how is this cool and interesting for DMs?Is there an example of something that satisfies 1 and 2 that does not satisfy 3?

— Rockstars In Spaaaaaaaace (@RockstarInSpace) May 23, 2020

Something that is overcomplicated mechanically for the DM to keep track of. Something that unbalances the game down the line, like access to overly powerful magic items. Something that asks a DM to take on a role that might be difficult for them to embrace.

— Shawn Merwin, dreaming of the frigid cold (@shawnmerwin) May 23, 2020

2001 Fun Fact: The Knight of the Chalice prestige class in Defenders of the Faith was inspired by my “Night” campaign setting, a world where demons took over. (See https://t.co/PahQgrhlPr)

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 18, 2020

2001 Fun Fact: The tiefling on the cover of Defenders of the Faith is Daros Hellseeker, who appeared in The Speaker in Dreams.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 18, 2020

2001 Fun Facts: By the time I started at Wizards, I had been out of ministry for 4 years, but everybody knew I had been a small-town local pastor before I started working on D&D. So there were a lot of jokes about typecasting when I worked on books like Defenders of the Faith.

— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 18, 2020

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