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By Sci Fi species, I'm referring to sentient and sapient species, for example the major races in Star Trek and Star Wars (Vulkans, Klingons, Mon Calamari, Wookies, etc) Do you think there is any significant difference between the two? Do (or would) you tend to treat them differently in how you...

Immediate fact: I don't know much about forum software (I certainly don't know if EN World is custom or stock) but I'm tossing this out there anyway. There are times when I'd like to reply to someone's post in my thread but I'm concerned that the thread is moving too quickly and people will...

This is an idea for a Campaign Setting I had, but I want to make sure it doesn't give people bad vibes before presenting it to the players like this. The PCs are refugees from the various Realms they come from, which were subjugated by the Overlord. They are rescued to take refuge in a giant...

This DM's notebook, called the Worldbuilder's Notebook, is being Kickstarted by Swordfish Islands. It is looking pretty rad. The Kickstarter Synopsis: "I am an RPG creator and publisher, who likes to write notes. Lots of notes. I've developed the Worldbuilder's Notebook over the past couple of...

In learning 5E for the group I'm running, occasionally I come across a rule that really blows me away for the effect it should have on the Setting (but doesn't). It's like the developers didn't care to think the implications all the way through in their goal to make things more comfortable for...

Does anyone know of any articles, threads, videos or other resources that cover medieval - rennaisance level technology effect on a D&D campaign? This can be from any edition, it doesn't have to be recent or apply to 5E. I'm hoping someone will know of a fairly thorough treatment of this, as...

I would like to gather opinions on why folks like to pick a demihuman (non-human) race. I'm not even going to suggest a possibility or color folks' answers with my intention for asking; I just want to learn peoples' raw thoughts.

Over the years, I’ve continued to be surprised that neither TSR nor WotC made an effort to educate in any depth the ways one can play with alignment in D&D. In an effort to understand it more deeply, I’ve written this tool to break down and identify the meaningful characteristics of a given...

I've been pondering alignment for a few weeks and I ended up writing a 9 page ontological essay. It's pretty valuable for my own use, so I'd like to share it, but 9 pages is awfully a lot for a forum post. I don't have a D&D or roleplaying blog because I don't write enough of this stuff and...

I'll admit I'm not a huge fan of the bard class, although there are bard PCs and NPCs that I've loved along the way. I'm running a 5E game without the PHBook and not very happy with the vague Bard writeup in the basic rules, so here goes my attempt. At the end are the Names of Power that my...

I'd like a treasure table based around heavy or otherwise awkward/hard to cash in treasure. I could have sworn a few years ago I spotted one on the net but can't find it. Curious if anyone has seen anything like that, or if there are any blog posts / articles on how to make treasure more...

There isn't much I can say since I can't go into the political realm itself (and I don't want to), but I see that nobody posted this on ENWorld yet and it's pretty big news among our circles RPGnet has issued an official ban policy on any posters who make a post that could be construed as...

(Reposting from Dragonsfoot. I'm not sure which is the more active OSR community) I had a dream last night where this idea came to me in the morning, heh. The purpose of this is to add yet more strategic options for tackling the dungeon. The party can recruit hirelings to be dungeon scouts...

Update (with my conclusion so far): It's no surprise that I found metagaming to be a myth. There are at least two very different definitions of the term, presented below the OP. When I wrote the OP, I was going by the second definition, and had no knowledge of the first. Well, I had the...

One scenario that recurs from time to time in D&D is the "player vs player" scenario. One PC wishes to steal from another, or from the group, or perhaps a PC doesn't like the way another PC is treating an NPC... sometimes this can even come down to vigilantism and killing. There are lots of...

Hey guys, I haven't posted in years because I've been away from D&D. I've done some private writing about D&D to understand why I don't like it anymore, and I'm curious what peoples' thoughts on these cultural elements I've identified are. If I'm alone or if there are actually some subcultures...

Thought I'd share some simple little ideas I had that could give your players some options they are probably going to ask for anyway. I originally posted these on the official boards. I'm unfamiliar with cross posting and external quoting rules, so I'll just post links to be safe. (Edit: Okay, I...

I noticed a thread where someone posted this very clever trick to avoid OA's from your movement: Is this really legal? You could also do this with a move so as not to have to provoke OA. I would say that to legally declare a move though, you'd have to include the full movement in the...

It explains in the Load section of weapons that any power that attacks multiple targets accounts for the reload time of a weapon in the power. What about thrown weapons? They don't have a 'reload time' but they obviously require that you draw each dagger before you have it available to attack...