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Very true! But I don't think it was acquired until Tier 2 Play! The films (been too long since I have read RotK) also have Gollum...

It's worth noting that it hasn't always been this way. In 3e, elves and half-elves had low-light vision (normal vision in dim light...

My response to this is simply to nerf or remove most options that circumvent challenges like light and food (basic survival...

And the Joys of At Least Occasional "Simulationism" There's an approach to rule-making that shows up in a few places in D&D 5e (and...

So...not a fan?

I don't tend to run or play in very long campaigns these days, so I generally want characters to hit the ground running and I'm not...

I am currently preparing a convention game in which the player characters are superheroes in a aetherpunk/magictech city (using...

That's interesting. I'm currently running a game that is exactly that: set during the Apocalypse in my local area, with science fiction...

I disagree. The super powers of PCs and NPCs is not one that radiates complete divinity like gods do. Nor are the PCs and NPCs...

I think it's a shame that WotC never released legal PDFs of the 3.0 core manuals.

This video is long, but informative and thoughtful. We live in a very secular world today. Many people, even those that are religious...

I think that is just philosophizing about religion by way of gaming without actually interrogating what makes people religious and what...

The biggest flaw with a lot of fantasy pantheons is given that regular people also have super powers - you'd rightly see all those guys...

I suspect the predictable magic of of a lot of rpg fantasy world's might counterintuitively (since some of it is "divine") make people...

I sort of wonder how much a typical inhabitant would "know" about the way things work. There are priests of the gods who claim how the...