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Two not necessarily related things: (1) I am very happy that the range of characters shown in the official D&D art is much more inclusive in just about every sense than it used to be (appearances akin to the variety of IRL racial/ethnic groups, breaking streotypical gender roles, everyone gets...

Carrying over from another thread: Should the question in this thread title have "relatively" in it? In any case... I would argue that any hobby can be made expensive. One can spend upper three figures on an ultra-light tent and similar amounts on the ultra light sleeping bag and on top of...

Thread title is by Saffron Olive on Twitter in regards to... Full Hipsters twitter thread link behind spoiler: Just screen shots below.

My teen's D&D club is switching campaigns and the new one is Victorian England (so I'm guessing Steampunk). He has no experience with the genre. Do any of you have a favorite video series or movie (Netflix, Amazon, Disney+) appropriate for a high schooler? Or favorite game supplement with that...

So, Gnolls. They're monstrous non-PC things canonically in 5E (previously were humanoid, but pretty monstrously behaving). Have you played one in previous editions or this edition? Do you have a friend who did? Did you never really want to before you learned this, but now really do?

Getting the regular Halo and Halo Fan Fiction update from my son this morning as he attempts to educate me. Apparently the Logic Plague and Gravemind can take over anything with a nervous system and even AI. My question was if clockwork creatures or a giant clockwork AI would be immune. And...

Thinking through the various energy types, I'm flummoxed a bit by the sonic energy type and my courses in physics 32+ years ago aren't helping. Is it the shock-wave from kt? Is that different than what comes from an earthquake? How does that different than the force type? Is it finding the...

So, what are you excited for coming up? ----------------------------------------------- Coming October 2nd at Secret Lair | Official Online Store I might have posted some of the other things that have been previewed the last few days (the holiday LotR stuff, the Ash/Evil Dead stuff, some...

Aphantasia is where a person to some degree or other doesn't have a mind's eye (something like 3-4% of people apparently). Some can't summon up any pictures in their heads, while others can only get very rough or fleeting sketches. Sometimes it's accompanied by not being able to mentally...

Is a problem with emulating a lot of popular fiction using many ttRPGs that the main characters in the fiction typically have massive plot armor and most bad guys are mooks and go down easily - but the folks playing the game might not like having that be too obvious? What about movies, comics...

In another thread, @Snarf Zagyg was talking about the game Everway, and had the quote that it was a game "which placed story first, before game or character". [Edit: As Snarf Notes below, these are Shannon Appelcline's words.] This made me wonder about classifying games based on which is...

So, asking ChatGPT about Haiku... it has me wondering, did Basho actually write anything that translates as: "There is where I am The flowers of the Edo hills Have turned to snow" See also some other misattributions it makes along the way.

Trying to think ahead for one of my #23 dungeon rooms coming up... Are the Valkyrie said to be eternally young or do they age? If they are eternally young, and Idunn providing apples to the gods is a thing, is that why? Or is there something else that would explain it?

So, I thought I understood the creative commons CC-BY license. But after seeing a post by someone else I went to go make sure I was right, but I couldn't find it.... and they seemed so sure of themselves that I now have doubts (possibly aided by being up too late now). I know from the CC FAQ...

One nice thing about the OGL 1.0a is that you didn't have to worry if your choice of anything matched things in the SRD. So, for example, would a judge find duplicating all the ability scores in that order was a copyright violation? The descriptions of them? Who knows - but we didn't have to...

For the below, say we've accepted the premise that HP aren't meat. That is, a "hit" indicates some level of exhaustion, being worn down, loss of vitality, fraying concentration, or depletion of luck - and that if we're having physical wounds at all they're either cosmetic until zero or there is...

Edit: Nevermind. If I toggle the square brackets under the right vertical ... it works again. ---- A few weeks ago I noticed I couldn't do formatting in posts or replies on my phone using the buttons. (Pixel 6, Android both November 2022 and now December 2022 update). I could swear I had been...

So 1e had Ultravision and Infravision. 3.5 had Low-Light and Darkvision and 5e has Darkvision. The former sounds too sci-fi to some and the later is too ubiquitous and overpowered to some. What would you put in a fantasy game? For me, it was kind of cool looking up the variety of eye types...

Going from another thread... So, which words and objects in D&D are of modern origin. Take modern to be after 1608. Why? Because 1608 is the OEDs first modern use of species which is relevant to recent D&D changes and the year given for the spyglass [edit: for the telescope that works like a...

So, I might have made a mistake. I'm running my son and his friends through B1/B2 and it looks like we'll finally be doing it in person. They're at the Caves of Chaos and getting ready to go in, so I picked up the D&D Campaign Case for Creatures. It has three sizes of disks and a bunch of...