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I wasn't as clear in 105 as it felt while typing it so no reason to fret :D. That bold bit is the problem in 5e's implementation. It...

I'm fond of sword and planet myself.

Do you mean for power level in an RPG? I can see that if a spell does 5d6 and a laser blaster does 10d6 kind of setup. Narratively...

Ralph Bakshi's got drugs and boobs, though! And killing mutant Nazis!

Also Thundarr the Barbarian!

This is a pretty spot-on description of Ralph Bakshi's Wizards.

Since the first day I have ever gamed, I have had a love of science fantasy as a genre. The first campaign I played in was a homebrew...

I saw a similar thing in 3e/Pathfinder. If something has damage reduction don’t try to bypass it, just hit it with a weapon that does...

You know what's funny? After running 5e for a long time now and just "magic weapons bypass it all," I actually started re-implementing...

Id say that it's obviously intended. Pretty sure that Crawford even talked about them not locking down the hand slot and leaving it...

Really the "golf cart" of weapons was something that you could see in AD&D*. You had your sword +1, +3 vs. lycanthropes and...

Amusingly, I remember a concept of a golfcart of weapons in 3E. You needed a Silver weapon to deal with enemies that had DR/Silver, and...

I have been looking for a wider variety of rare spells for A5E. It would be great if folks in the community could share what they have...

As someone who prefers 4e, it's really amusing to see something happen over and over: folks who take issue with something 5.x did and...

I'd very much like to agree, but unfortunately it's easy to come up with reasons that it is art... we're seeing discussions like these...