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You got me there. You can no longer trust Google to answer a fact-based, real-world basic piece of information with the truth. I suppose...

The thing I appreciate about Treantmonk is, he shows his work. He correctly points out that, to analyze things like damage per round...

This. Most youtubers aren't very good at evaluating 5.5. They miss obvious combos or basically inexperienced at running the game...

Yeah, mods are super important to curating community.

FB groups are not that bad. I'm in some very civilized RPG groups. Mods are active. EnWorld succeeds because of the very active and...

I recently watched Matt Colville's long video about finding an online community in the TTRPG space, and I wanted to share a thought I...

This is a table and social issue, not a setting issue however. If a player is engaged (and the DM encourages that engagement), they will...

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Because like 1e, 2e, and 3e, 5e focus too hard on how everything looks at low levels. Once you're numbers get better because they need...

Sure! You can play a game in a sword and sorcery setting where the players run a tavern. But I don't think it's harmful to define a...

I think we all need to appreciate the work that EN Publishing and Kobold Press in giving us SRDs under open licences that are not...

I'd definitely agree that's the aesthetic style of the pictures in the book. As far as the abilities themselves, if I were reading...

Yeah, Jonesy, that was his point. Olgar, there's a very good Infocom Grue in the C&C Classic Monsters book. (And 1E by way of D20 is...

Simple: "It is pitch black, you are likely to be eaten by a Grue" Start counting down from 10. If they fail to state they are...

I have skill focus: obscure D&D lore.