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tough to say Difficult to compare 1978-1980 with now because back then, we didn't know we needed a DMG. Now that we have 30 years of 3 core rulebooks, we expect the DMG, the PHB, and the MM as requirements for playing the game.

Because there's no OGL, and few staff, the lack of a character creation tool will likely exist for a considerable time. 4th Edition shows how great WotC can be when they have their :):):):) together -- all 3 core books available at the same time, and within a year, modules available for every...

Perhaps WotC has stripped down their staff so much that they can't really do what one might expect them to do as far a D&D development is concerned. So many people they used to rely upon are now simply outsourced consultants. We should perhaps not expect anything from WotC, so at least there's...

New Rogues Gallery I registered a domain and built a placeholder website. Still need to work on a bunch of stuff, both database (under-the-hood) and interface (the-hood). Rather than PAYING I'd like to have user submissions. Although that kind of thing could be done with EN World, I decided I'd...

Is there a good Rogues Gallery for 5e containing NPCs and player character builds? I'm considering putting together a website for this specific purpose. I recall in the 1980's there were some great resources for NPC's, far beyond TSR's Rogues' Gallery -- the materials from Judges' Guild were...

Kender and Warforged don't belong in the DMG. They should be in the Monster Manual (or the Players Handbook 2)

>You can expect us to do one or two such products a year, to give people enough time to play through a campaign without overwhelming them with new options." I don't buy that for a second. There was so much content being cooked up for 4e that I couldn't keep up with my players for all the new...

Judging from the fact that D&D Next / 5th edition has been rolled out over time, I'm not expecting great things from WotC. There was mad hatred for 4th edition, but at least they had all 3 required sourcebooks available on day one, and when the windows character builder didn't live up to...

4th edition is just fine My weekly group has been playing 4th edition since the fall of 2008 and we have a blast with it. We are all fairly experienced roleplayers, and the books just give structure and guidance, and with 4th edition especially, a balance of powers that previous versions...

yeah, we're starting a Dark Sun campaign tonight, and the materials were released months ago, and there's no freaking character sheets. at first the DM was worried about the character builder not being updated to handle Dark Sun, but now I think that maybe the problem is a little deeper at WotC...

wow, thanks! I've converted your XL version to FileMaker Pro, which means I can now carry this info around with me on my iPad. The searching function is nice, and I'll probably design a layout with 4e style crunch blocks. If anyone is interested, drop me a line. Now that it's in FMP, we could...

it still sucks when the randomization means it's difficult to collect the ones you want / need, and when the price is $15 for 5 or 6 - seriously folks, they're just tiny plastic toys. if ever there was a time for china to make cheap stuff i can use, it's right here in the middle of a recession.

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i looked for a couple of weeks and couldn't find any that were a bunch for cheap. ** Here's some photos of the condition markers I put together. the condition markers in their box www.lo-res.com/dnd/conditions1.jpg www.lo-res.com/dnd/conditions2.jpg the condition markers in use...

When I first started playing D&D with my daughter a couple of years ago, I leaned heavily on my 1.0 AD&D books and materials, but now we're fully 4e (against her wishes - she digs the 3.x books and classes). I created a homebrew world for us using Tyrantis (the pirate city-state) because I...

Since 4e came out, I've tried marking conditions in a number of ways. Attending to Origins and GenCon last year meant seeing how other DMs mark conditions. I personally prefer the system that my buddy John uses, but it requires an investment in time and effort that I don't have, so borrowing...

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the Blood-Festival of Bane So far the Blood-Festival of Bane is getting off to a good start. I've built a small Filemaker Pro database for dropping in the stats of the opponents and the condemned, and have written up about a page of intro and rules borrowing from the nice D&DI/dragon annual...

gladiators in the arena last night I did some historical research on wikipedia :-) apparently the Colosseum was built AFTER Nero died on land that he had taken from the people to turn into a lake. so in a correction to my previous post, neither Nero nor Caligula used the Colosseum for...