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“One of the things I love—and I speak in the present tense—about 5E14 is, even as it substantially streamlined D&D’s rules and options...

A very surprising post by Keith Ammann of TMKWTD. I'm passingly familiar with the blog, I check it out every now and again and I've...

While I can respect and understand your position, I don't share it. I don't want all the races to be that prominent. In my game they...

I've got to say I'd find the expectation I track all conditions at both ends something I'd not want to do. If players want to play in a...

Actually, it's a phenomena from the Real World™ when two different cultures tried to understand each other and equated their gods with...

Not sure why you'd feel that way. That's how several real-world polytheistic religions worked. Ishtar (Mesopotamian) begat Astarte...

He is a platinum dragon boy, She was a five-headed dragon girl, Can I make it any more obvious? 😜

I mean, it's a fun discussion but it really gets summed up with: "have good communication with your players, establish the main campaign...

Is Branchala not a Corellon analogue, like Reorx is Moradin’s?

I think the Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes approach to elves was very useful. Actually, it’s approach to everything was useful, as it...

Dragonlance has a Corellon in all but name, Branchala, specifically for this. Paladine is Bahamut, naturally.

Now see, that's one of my pet peeves. People who obviously have an idea for a character independent of D&D and, instead of writing a...

The Purple Dragon Knight retooling was misguided, but I think the worst part is the implementation. It’s misguided for all the reasons...

If it only occurred in the last few years, that's kind of an "A guy named Otto Ocatvius ends up with eight arms? What are the odds?"...

Sometimes I'm really disappointed by the literal-mindedness of the D&D designers, and really reductive ideas about creating color and...