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Not DnD is a weekly show discussing tabletop roleplaying games. In September we are looking at tabletop RPGs for a sci-fi setting...

Okay you broke me—I love anything Gamma World and hate anything mixed into my beautiful perfect Eberron

If you don't think 40+ year old versions of a 50 year old game don't count as "oldest versions of the game", I don't know what to tell you.

I said "versions". Plural. Because multiple early version of Basic D&D used race-as-class. AD&D never did, that always separated race...

This is the second in a series of articles attempting to answer the question: How much D&D stuff is there anyway? In the previous...

Wasn't the rimekin that princess who sang "Let it go"? Forgive me this almost off-topic but a future M:tG event will be "Reality...

Wasn't expecting that, but it's exciting. Sigh... I'm more excited for the dlcs than the main book...

I think that Sorcerors would make great thematic magic casters in a custom setting; imagine if they were the ONLY full caster class, but...

Tailored puzzles, archetypal NPCs, subclasses—this month's EN5ider Magazine is all about sorcerers! As always a juicy adventure awaits...

That’s admittedly true. Political intrigues are rare in my games, and we tend to keep it highly abstracted so that we can get back to...

At about 7th level, a party I was DMing encountered a lock - with an illustration - that the Rogue failed to open. The cleric said...

Depending on age, the child by definition will virtually always be feral, so that makes sense.

Errr... maybe people do value animals more than people, but in your example your reasoning is wrong. The reason you are fined more for...

No, it's a well-known fact that people value animals far more than they do other people. For instance, around here, you can be fined...

I thought the reason was you could cast Raise Dead on a porter, but not on a horse.